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This article is about an archaeological type site. For a geological type site, see type locality (geology).

In archaeology, a type site (American English) or type-site (British English) 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

Africa

  • Nok (Kaduna, Nigeria), of the Nok culture

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 and Ash Glazed Ware (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
  • Cucuteni (Romania) and Trypillia (Ukraine), of the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture

Mesoamerica

  • Uaxactun (Maya civilization, Dept.of Peten, Guatemala)
  • Dzibilchaltun (Maya civilization, northern Yucatan, Mexico)
  • Monte Albán (Zapotec civilization, Oaxaca, Mexico)

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

  • Folsom, New Mexico (Folsom Tradition), United States
  • Clovis, New Mexico (Clovis culture), United States: generally accepted as the type site for an early human culture in North America
  • La Plata County, Colorado (Basketmaker II period of the Anasazi culture), United States
  • Barton Gulch of the Blackwater Draw Paleo-Indian culture
  • Adena Mound (Adena culture), United States
  • Borax Lake Site, for two of the earliest cultural traditions in California: the Post Pattern and Borax Lake Pattern.

Oceania

  • New Caledonia, of the Lapita culture.

South Asia

  • Kot Diji (Pre-Indus civilization, Pakistan)
  • Harappa (Indus civilization, Punjab, northeast Pakistan)

References

  1. ↑ Darvill, Timothy (2009). "type-site". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199534043.001.0001. ISBN 9780191727139.
  2. ↑ Kipfer, Barbara Ann (2000). "type site". Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. p. 580. ISBN 978-0-306-46158-3.
  3. ↑ Kaeser, Marc-Antoine (2019). La Tène, ou la construction d'un site éponyme (in French). Drémil-Lafage: Editions Mergoil. ISBN 9782355180927.
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