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type site
n.
An archaeological site regarded as definitively characteristic of a particular culture and whose name is often applied to the culture. For example, the Le Moustier cave in southwest France is the type site for the Mousterian culture.

type site
An archaeological or anthropological site regarded as definitively characteristic of a particular culture and whose name is often applied to the culture. For example, the Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania is the type site for the Oldowan culture.


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In their analyses, the excavators, Tian Guanjin and Guo Suxin, suggest that the bronze artefacts and accompanying pottery found in the fifth Phase at Zhukaigou and surrounding area signal the origins of the 'Ordos style' and they have designated Zhukaigou as the typesite (Institute of Archaeology 1986; Tian & Guo 1988).
Dimini and its society The status of Dimini as a chronological typesite for the Greek Neolithic has diminished in recent years: the 'Classic Dimini' ceramic assemblage, probably dating to the early 5th millennium BC (Theochares 1973: 119; Weisshaar 1989: 139), now defines only the last of four or five subdivisions of the Late Neolithic of eastern Thessaly.
 
 
 
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