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<h2 id="notable-type-sites">Notable type sites</h2> <h3>Africa</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Nok/f2u2HePk">Nok</a> (<a href="/facts/Kaduna_State/tUExvNFl">Kaduna</a>, <a href="/facts/Nigeria/gbW17BX8">Nigeria</a>), of the <a href="/facts/Nok_culture/eQFLmUBC">Nok culture</a></li></ul> <h3>East Asia</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Banpo/EldAu6sC">Banpo</a> (<a href="/facts/Yangshao_culture/61WKDbfz">Yangshao culture</a>, Neolithic <a href="/facts/Yangshao_culture/61WKDbfz">Yangshao culture</a>, China)</li> <li>Liangzhu Town, near <a href="/facts/Hangzhou/wXb5auh7">Hangzhou</a> (<a href="/facts/Liangzhu_culture/DzWBoa95">Liangzhu culture</a>, Neolithic, China)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Songguk-ri/kY4U3rDP">Songguk-ri</a> (Middle <a href="/facts/Mumun_Pottery_Period/G1MqYh87">Mumun</a> culture, southern <a href="/facts/Korea/cj2kDBzc">Korea</a>)</li> <li>Suemura cluster of kilns – <a href="/facts/Anagama/zjLhqInC">Kilns</a> of <a href="/facts/Sue_pottery/7QDIPVT9">Sue pottery</a> (Middle and Late <a href="/facts/Kofun/1HJfThS0">Kofun</a> period, <a href="/facts/Osaka/sbS1N7sl">Osaka</a>, <a href="/facts/Japan/U5mz0SRT">Japan</a>)</li> <li>Sanage cluster of kilns — Kilns of Green Glazed Ware [ja] and Ash Glazed Ware [ja] (<a href="/facts/Nara_period/oEFJgP7V">Nara</a> and <a href="/facts/Heian_period/PmIGpfCx">Heian</a> period, <a href="/facts/Aichi_Prefecture/SDqHPcjm">Aichi Prefecture</a>, Japan)</li></ul> <h3>Europe</h3> <ul><li>a river terrace of the <a href="/facts/Somme_River/7RcEdApe">River Somme</a> (<a href="/facts/Abbeville/VJeFXKNU">Abbeville</a>, France), of the <a href="/facts/Abbevillian/9rJj807b">Abbevillian</a> culture</li> <li><a href="/facts/Aurignac/VcX9JJVF">Aurignac</a> (<a href="/facts/Haute_Garonne/Kvw4lDMs">Haute Garonne</a>, France), of the <a href="/facts/Aurignacian/9XgJsegF">Aurignacian</a> culture</li> <li><a href="/facts/Hallstatt/1RtvzbFU">Hallstatt</a> (<a href="/facts/Salzkammergut/43YYYqXf">Salzkammergut</a>, <a href="/facts/Austria/4qWIMIyc">Austria</a>), of the <a href="/facts/Hallstatt_culture/brpJ6dWw">Hallstatt culture</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/La_T%C3%A8ne,_Neuch%C3%A2tel/ECRejGYh">La Tène, Neuchâtel</a>, Switzerland, of the <a href="/facts/La_T%C3%A8ne_culture/gsSxxffn">La Tène culture</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Vin%C4%8Da/75dxz4D3">Vinča, Belgrade</a>, Serbia, of the <a href="/facts/Vin%C4%8Da_culture/H9379tTl">Vinča culture</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Abri_de_la_Madeleine/nFw2I9eV">Abri de la Madeleine</a> (<a href="/facts/Dordogne/mEcvMmgm">Dordogne</a>, France), of the <a href="/facts/Magdalenian/qV9B3GNN">Magdalenian</a> culture</li> <li><a href="/facts/Le_Moustier/KscVxRdn">Le Moustier</a> (Dordogne, France), of the <a href="/facts/Mousterian/vwWjmGas">Mousterian</a> culture</li> <li><a href="/facts/Saint_Acheul/MsYV6j9u">Saint Acheul</a> (near <a href="/facts/Amiens/MluWTCmt">Amiens</a>, <a href="/facts/France/CxIeIKM3">France</a>), of the <a href="/facts/Acheulean/mf49sr9c">Acheulean</a> culture</li> <li><a href="/facts/Butmir/4KgVC2YM">Butmir</a> (near <a href="/facts/Sarajevo/IzawfJRg">Sarajevo</a>, <a href="/facts/Bosnia-Herzegovina/jNVA1gPB">Bosnia-Herzegovina</a>), of the <a href="/facts/Butmir_culture/kjDKY7Fu">Butmir culture</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Cucuteni/43h18zEs">Cucuteni</a> (Romania) and <a href="/facts/Trypillia/nRVEVtlj">Trypillia</a> (Ukraine), of the <a href="/facts/Cucuteni%E2%80%93Trypillia_culture/Bvz4KYrM">Cucuteni–Trypillia</a> culture</li></ul> <h3>Mesoamerica</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Uaxactun/jM51NEIV">Uaxactun</a> (<a href="/facts/Maya_civilization/JMynpRSR">Maya civilization</a>, Dept.of Peten, <a href="/facts/Guatemala/MoMcSnla">Guatemala</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Dzibilchaltun/StpVUl2o">Dzibilchaltun</a> (<a href="/facts/Maya_civilization/JMynpRSR">Maya civilization</a>, northern <a href="/facts/Yucatan/8rjP0r8R">Yucatan</a>, <a href="/facts/Mexico/IT5bwhdh">Mexico</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Monte_Alb%C3%A1n/NEKJmDhB">Monte Albán</a> (<a href="/facts/Zapotec_civilization/IHLeD9F8">Zapotec civilization</a>, <a href="/facts/Oaxaca/bt9HNw2z">Oaxaca</a>, Mexico)</li></ul> <h3>Near East</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Tell_Halaf/c78LgdAB">Tell Halaf</a>, <a href="/facts/Syria/7pDXGzq8">Syria</a>, for the <a href="/facts/Halaf_culture/CU2yotcS">Halaf culture</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Tell_Hassuna/CdbvqYj0">Tell Hassuna</a>, <a href="/facts/Iraq/pqYSFJw8">Iraq</a>, for the <a href="/facts/Hassuna_culture/Mdn8fbr5">Hassuna culture</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Jemdet_Nasr/rlNAFEgw">Jemdet Nasr</a>, <a href="/facts/Iraq/pqYSFJw8">Iraq</a>, for the <a href="/facts/Jemdet_Nasr_period/Eb2PNw8N">Jemdet Nasr period</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Tell_al-%27Ubaid/ISokUAAn">Tell al-'Ubaid</a>, <a href="/facts/Iraq/pqYSFJw8">Iraq</a>, for the <a href="/facts/Ubaid_period/l3bTHRht">Ubaid period</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Uruk/8VY9FLDW">Uruk</a>, <a href="/facts/Iraq/pqYSFJw8">Iraq</a>, for the <a href="/facts/Uruk_period/sKwwPGj3">Uruk period</a></li></ul> <h3>Northern America</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Folsom,_New_Mexico/hSPAe5GL">Folsom, New Mexico</a> (<a href="/facts/Folsom_Tradition/g8CAmYA3">Folsom Tradition</a>), United States</li> <li><a href="/facts/Clovis,_New_Mexico/2YKzIJQv">Clovis, New Mexico</a> (<a href="/facts/Clovis_culture/5Mjh7XM0">Clovis culture</a>), United States: generally accepted as the type site for one of the earliest human cultures in the North America</li> <li><a href="/facts/La_Plata_County,_Colorado/N4Xyex7T">La Plata County, Colorado</a> (<a href="/facts/Pecos_Classification/bnmqwFKI">Basketmaker II period</a> of the <a href="/facts/Anasazi/KBn3XUVd">Anasazi</a> culture), United States</li> <li><a href="/facts/Barton_Gulch/Uw3s9LeW">Barton Gulch</a> of the Blackwater Draw Paleo-Indian culture</li> <li><a href="/facts/Adena_Mound/o8N3KSRd">Adena Mound</a> (<a href="/facts/Adena_culture/DcqEhN2Q">Adena culture</a>), United States</li> <li><a href="/facts/Borax_Lake_Site/4HRoPM7P">Borax Lake Site</a>, for two of the earliest cultural traditions in California: the Post Pattern and Borax Lake Pattern.</li></ul> <h3>Oceania</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/New_Caledonia/VI15kA61">New Caledonia</a>, of the <a href="/facts/Lapita/smSLjKMB">Lapita</a> culture.</li></ul> <h3>South Asia</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Kot_Diji/RYw13V7v">Kot Diji</a> (Pre-Indus civilization, <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Harappa/bKWEUjH0">Harappa</a> (<a href="/facts/Indus_civilization/6xM4aK23">Indus civilization</a>, Punjab, northeast Pakistan)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Darvill, Timothy (2009). "type-site". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199534043.001.0001. ISBN 9780191727139. <a href="9780191727139" target="_blank">9780191727139</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Kipfer, Barbara Ann (2000). "type site". Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. p. 580. ISBN 978-0-306-46158-3. <a href="978-0-306-46158-3" target="_blank">978-0-306-46158-3</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Kaeser, Marc-Antoine (2019). La Tène, ou la construction d'un site éponyme (in French). Drémil-Lafage: Editions Mergoil. ISBN 9782355180927. <a href="9782355180927" target="_blank">9782355180927</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>