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Assemblage

Meaning in history, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In history, assemblage means: A group of archaeological finds treated together because of a shared context, period or analytical purpose.

In Turkish: buluntu topluluğu

How it is used

State how the group was defined; not every assemblage consists of objects deposited simultaneously.

Example sentences

  1. The pottery assemblage from the room includes cooking and storage vessels.

    Grouped finds permit comparison of activities within a context.

  2. Later disturbance may have introduced objects into the assemblage.

    The recovered group may combine material from different episodes.

Common collocations

  • a pottery assemblage
  • analyse an assemblage
  • artifactAn object made or shaped by people, such as a tool, coin, weapon or piece of jewellery, especially one studied for what it reveals about the past.
  • stratigraphyThe study of the layers of soil and debris at a site, based on the principle that lower layers were usually laid down before the ones above them.

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