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Type site
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In archaeology a type site (also known as a type-site or typesite) is a site that is considered the model of a particular archaeological culture. For example, the type site of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A culture is Jericho, in the West Bank, while the type site of the pre-celtic/Celtic Bronze Age Hallstatt culture is the lakeside village of Hallstatt, Austria.
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A type site contains artifacts, in an assemblage, that are typical of that culture. Type sites are often the first or foundational site discovered about the culture they represent. The use of this term is therefore similar to that of the specimen type in biology (see biological types) or locus typicus (type locality) in geology.
- 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 Madelaine (Dordogne, France), of the Magdalenian culture
- Le Moustier (Dordogne, France), of the Mousterian culture
- St.Acheul (near Amiens, France), of the Acheulean culture
- Uaxactun (Maya civilization, Dept.of Peten, Guatemala)
- Dzibilchaltun (Maya civilization, northern Yucatan, Mexico)
- Monte Alban (Zapotec civilization, Oaxaca,Mexico)
- Folsom, New Mexico (Folsom Tradition), United States
- Clovis, New Mexico (Clovis culture), United States - generally accepted as the type site for the earliest human culture in the New World
- La Plata County, Colorado (Basketmaker II period of the Anasazi culture), United States
- New Caledonia, of the Lapita culture.
- Kot Diji (pre-Harappanian civilization, Pakistan)
- Harappa (Indus civilization, Punjab, northeast Pakistan)
- Banpo (Yangshao culture, Neolithic Yangshao culture, China)
- Songguk-ri (Middle Mumun culture, southern Korea)
- Toro (Middle and Late Yayoi culture, Japan)
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