WHAT IS THE ASSEMBLAGE ?

ASSEMBLAGE: A group of objects of different or similar types found in close association with each other and thus considered to be the product of one people from one period of time. Where the assemblage is frequently repeated and covers a reasonably full range of human activity, it is described as a culture; where it is repeated but limited in content, e.g., flint tools only (a set of objects in one medium), it is called an industry. When a group of industries are found together in a single

archaeological context, it is called an assemblage. Such a group characterizes a certain culture, era, site, or phase and it is the sum of all subassemblages. Assemblage examples are artifacts from a site

or feature.