Meaning of archaeological horizon | Babel Free

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A common set of artefacts that identifies a culture and is found disseminated widely (usually over a number of sites, but sometimes widely over one site) but restricted to a single stratum; a layer or stratum.

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“The Lochnore Phase is followed by the Shuswap Horizon, the first of three archaeological horizons that together comprise the Late Period of the Mid Fraser-Thompson River area.”

“2011, Nuria Sanz, Penelope Keenan (editors), Human Evolution: Adaptations, Dispersal and Social Developments (HEADS), World Heritage Papers: 29, UNESCO, page 132, While speech, song, music and dance⟳ presumably existed still earlier, the oldest musical instruments known are four bone flutes and four mammoth ivory flutes from archaeological horizon II at Geißenklösterle (Hahn and Münzel, 1995; Conard et al., 2004).”

“2012, Rivka Rabinovich, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Lutz Kindler, Naama Goren-Inbar, The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Volume III: Mammalian Taphonomy: The Assemblages of Layers V-5 and V-6, page 5, The evidence of fire revealed in each of the archaeological horizons is based mainly on the high frequency of microartifacts.”

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