cultural horizon

C54139
concept

A cultural horizon is a distinct layer or phase in the archaeological or historical record characterized by a widespread, relatively uniform set of cultural traits, artifacts, or practices shared across a broad region and time period.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
cultural horizon canonical 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: cultural horizon
Generated description
A cultural horizon is a distinct layer or phase in the archaeological or historical record characterized by a widespread, relatively uniform set of cultural traits, artifacts, or practices shared across a broad region and time period.

Instances (2)

Instance Via concept surface
Formative Horizon (Andes)
Arslantepe VIA