assemblage
assemblage
Definition
as·sem·blage (ə sem′blij′; for 3, also ä′sem bläz̸h′, ȧ sän blȧz̸h′)
noun
- an assembling or being assembled
- a group of persons or things gathered together; assembly
- 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
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.
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