type site
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.94 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An archaeological site considered the representative example of a particular culture, frequently its first discovery and frequently used as its eponym
noun
A geologic site considered the representative example or first discovery of a stratographic level or other feature
Example Sentences
- "The Late Bronze Age assemblage to which the type site offers no significant parallel."
- "Bambata is the type site for the Stillbay Culture in Rhodesia."
- "A ‘type-site’ is, in archaeological jargon, the site after which a culture is named, often the site at which it was first discovered or recognized as distinct."
- "Each interglacial is named after a type site or area where deposits of that stage occur."