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In archaeology, a type site or 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.

Notable type sites
Africa Nok (Kaduna, Nigeria), of the Nok culture East AsiaBanpo (Yangshao culture, Neolithic Yangshao culture, China) • Liangzhu Town, near Hangzhou (Liangzhu culture, Neolithic, China) • Songguk-ri (Middle Mumun culture, southern Korea) • Suemura cluster of kilnsKilns of Sue pottery (Middle and Late Kofun period, Osaka, Japan) • Sanage cluster of kilns — Kilns of and (Nara and Heian period, Aichi Prefecture, Japan) Europe • 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 cultureLa Tène, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, of the La Tène cultureVinča, Belgrade, Serbia, of the Vinča cultureAbri 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 cultureCucuteni (Romania) and Trypillia (Ukraine), of the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture MesoamericaUaxactun (Maya civilization, Dept.of Peten, Guatemala) • Dzibilchaltun (Maya civilization, northern Yucatan, Mexico) • Monte Albán (Zapotec civilization, Oaxaca, Mexico) Near EastTell Halaf, Syria, for the Halaf cultureTell Hassuna, Iraq, for the Hassuna cultureJemdet Nasr, Iraq, for the Jemdet Nasr periodTell al-'Ubaid, Iraq, for the Ubaid periodUruk, Iraq, for the Uruk period Northern AmericaFolsom, 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. OceaniaNew Caledonia, of the Lapita culture. South AsiaKot Diji (Pre-Indus civilization, Pakistan) • Harappa (Indus civilization, Punjab, northeast Pakistan) ==References==
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