Type site

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

• Banpo (Yangshao culture, Neolithic Yangshao culture, China)
• Liangzhu Town, near Hangzhou (Liangzhu culture, Neolithic, China)
• Mumun culture, southern Korea
  )
• 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
• 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
• Bosnia-Herzegovina), of the Butmir culture

• Uaxactun (Maya civilization, Dept.of Peten, Guatemala)
• 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 Tradition
  ), United States
• Clovis, New Mexico (Clovis culture), United States: generally accepted as the type site for one of the earliest human cultures in the North America
• 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

• Lapita
  culture.

South Asia

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

References