a place with archaeological evidence of ancient use; often used by archaeologists interchangeably with “site”.

A site may have multiple occupations, however; occupations can be considered to date to a particular archaeologically identifiable period, or an occupation can be used more loosely to indicate ancient use of a place.

Posted online on Thursday, February 18th, 2010

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