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Archaeological site that defines a culture
In
archaeology , a type site is the
site used to define a particular
archaeological culture or other
typological unit , which is often named after it.
[1]
[2] For example, discoveries at
La Tène and
Hallstatt led scholars to divide the
European Iron Age into the
La Tène culture and
Hallstatt culture , named after their respective type sites.
[3]
The concept is similar to
type localities in
geology and
type specimens in
biology .
Notable type sites
East Asia
Banpo (
Yangshao culture , Neolithic
Yangshao culture , China)
Liangzhu Town , near
Hangzhou (
Liangzhu culture , Neolithic, China)
Songguk-ri (Middle
Mumun culture, southern
Korea )
Suemura cluster of kilns –
Kilns of
Sue pottery (Middle and Late
Kofun period,
Osaka ,
Japan )
Sanage cluster of kilns — Kilns of
Green Glazed Ware [
ja ] and
Ash Glazed Ware [
ja ] (
Nara and
Heian period,
Aichi Prefecture , Japan)
Europe
a river terrace of the
River Somme (
Abbeville , France), of the
Abbevillian culture
Aurignac (
Haute Garonne , France), of the
Aurignacian culture
Hallstatt (
Salzkammergut ,
Austria ), of the
Hallstatt culture
La Tène, Neuchâtel , Switzerland, of the
La Tène culture
Vinča, Belgrade , Serbia, of the
Vinča culture
Abri de la Madeleine (
Dordogne , France), of the
Magdalenian culture
Le Moustier (Dordogne, France), of the
Mousterian culture
Saint Acheul (near
Amiens ,
France ), of the
Acheulean culture
Butmir (near
Sarajevo ,
Bosnia-Herzegovina ), of the
Butmir culture
Mesoamerica
Near East
Tell Halaf ,
Syria , for the
Halaf culture
Tell Hassuna ,
Iraq , for the
Hassuna culture
Jemdet Nasr ,
Iraq , for the
Jemdet Nasr period
Tell al-'Ubaid ,
Iraq , for the
Ubaid period
Uruk ,
Iraq , for the
Uruk period
Northern America
Oceania
South Asia
References