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assemblage Definition

as·sem·blage (ə sem′blij′; for 3, also ä′sem bläz̸h′, ȧ sän blȧz̸h′)

noun

  1. an assembling or being assembled
  2. a group of persons or things gathered together; assembly
  3. a form of art involving the assembly and arrangement of unrelated objects, parts, and materials in a kind of sculptured collage

Etymology: Fr

assemblage Synonyms

assemblage

n.

assembly, collection, association; see collection 2, gathering.

assemblage Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • pottery: This revealed a portion of walling and a rich assemblage of pottery, lithics, and buried deposits.
  • disposition: Hence, sensible bodies are beings of the mind which are merely caused by assemblages of local dispositions of matter.
  • artifact: Sequence dating and seriation These techniques both place assemblages of artifacts into relative order.
  • specie: The Woods were an assemblage of different species of deciduous trees.

Preposition: from

  • excavation: The assemblage from the church excavations is dominated by this fabric.

Converse of object

  • excavate: Dr. Sarah King has begun the analysis of the human bone assemblage excavated beneath St Colman's Church.
  • dominate: During the eighteenth century, wine bottles continued to dominate the glass assemblage, with the exception of window glass.
  • recover: These are quantitative series of molluscan assemblages recovered from stratified sequences at many critical sites, several no longer accessible.

Adjective modifier

  • lithic: There are no diagnostic elements among the lithic assemblage which would suggest a date earlier than the Neolithic period.
  • faunal: There is no clear evidence of corresponding shifts in tool function or the faunal assemblages.
  • Acheulian: Components of the East African Acheulian assemblage: analytical approach.
  • machinic: Anarcho-communism symbolized moral integrity: the romance of artistic ' delirium ' undermining the ' machinic assemblages ' of bourgeois conformity.
  • Paleolithic: The total absence of authentic Upper Paleolithic assemblages is equally significant.
  • foraminiferal: The benthic foraminiferal assemblage identified indicates a low oxygen environment with high organic detritus accumulation.

Noun used with modifier

  • microfossil: Draw basic stratigraphic conclusions about microfossil assemblages ( e.g. age of rock unit, correlations, etc.
  • diatom: Prior to the onset of the 19 th Century, diatom assemblages suggest a little or no change in water acidity.
  • pottery: However, a pit containing a primary pottery assemblage of early 13th century date denotes the nearby presence of a house.
  • lichen: There is an important crustose lichen assemblage on the rocks.
  • flint: A flint assemblage from Constantine Island, North Cornwall.
  • landform: The landform assemblage is comparable to that at Bouldnor and Burnt Wood, but smaller in scale.