Archaeological site that defines a culture
Inarchaeology, atype site (American English) ortype-site (British English) is thesite used to define a particulararchaeological culture or othertypological unit, which is often named after it.[1][2] For example, discoveries atLa Tène andHallstatt led scholars to divide theEuropean Iron Age into theLa Tène culture andHallstatt culture, named after their respective type sites.[3]
The concept is similar totype localities ingeology andtype specimens inbiology.
- Banpo (Yangshao culture, NeolithicYangshao culture, China)
- Liangzhu Town, nearHangzhou (Liangzhu culture, Neolithic, China)
- Songguk-ri (MiddleMumun culture, southernKorea)
- Suemura cluster of kilns –Kilns ofSue pottery (Middle and LateKofun period,Osaka,Japan)
- Sanage cluster of kilns — Kilns ofGreen Glazed Ware [ja] andAsh Glazed Ware [ja] (Nara andHeian period,Aichi Prefecture, Japan)
- a river terrace of theRiver Somme (Abbeville, France), of theAbbevillian culture
- Aurignac (Haute Garonne, France), of theAurignacian culture
- Hallstatt (Salzkammergut,Austria), of theHallstatt culture
- La Tène, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, of theLa Tène culture
- Vinča, Belgrade, Serbia, of theVinča culture
- Abri de la Madeleine (Dordogne, France), of theMagdalenian culture
- Le Moustier (Dordogne, France), of theMousterian culture
- Saint Acheul (nearAmiens,France), of theAcheulean culture
- Butmir (nearSarajevo,Bosnia-Herzegovina), of theButmir culture
- Cucuteni (Romania) andTrypillia (Ukraine), of theCucuteni–Trypillia culture
- Tell Halaf,Syria, for theHalaf culture
- Tell Hassuna,Iraq, for theHassuna culture
- Jemdet Nasr,Iraq, for theJemdet Nasr period
- Tell al-'Ubaid,Iraq, for theUbaid period
- Uruk,Iraq, for theUruk period
