type site
nounEtymology From type + site.
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Archaeology, History, Human sciences, Sciences An archaeological site considered the representative example of a particular culture, frequently its first discovery and frequently used as its eponym
- The Late Bronze Age assemblage to which the type site offers no significant parallel.1935, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1 6:
- Bambata is the type site for the Stillbay Culture in Rhodesia.1959, J.G.D. Clark, Reflections on the significance of prehistoric cultural influences in South West Africa, VI 159:
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- A ‘type-site’ is, in archaeological jargon, the site after which a culture is named, often the site at which it was first discovered or recognized as distinct.1981, P. Salway, Roman Britain, section 7:
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Geography, Geology, Natural sciences A geologic site considered the representative example or first discovery of a stratographic level or other feature
- Each interglacial is named after a type site or area where deposits of that stage occur.1975, J.G. Evans, The Environment of Early Man on the British Isles, I 8:
- Related terms
- Clovis, La Tène