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type-site
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Type site
In
archaeology
a
type site
(also known as a
type-site
or
typesite
) is a
site
that is considered the model of a particular
archaeological culture
. For example, the type site of the
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
culture is
Jericho
, in the
West Bank
. A type site is also often the
eponym
(the site after which the culture is named). For example, the type site of the pre-Celtic/
Celtic
Bronze Age
Hallstatt culture
is the lakeside village of
Hallstatt
,
Austria
.
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