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. 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. The concept is similar to type localities in geology and type specimens in biology. 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) 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 Uaxactun (Maya civilization, Dept.of Peten, Guatemala) Dzibilchaltun (Maya civilization, northern Yucatan, Mexico) Monte Albán (Zapotec civilization, Oaxaca, Mexico) 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 Folsom, New Mexico (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 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.