Industry

A frequently repeated assemblage of a particular material or function, i.e. flake industry, flint industry. Such an assemblage of artifacts including the same types so consistently suggests that it is the product of a single society. The term also describes a large grouping of artifacts that is considered to represent or identify a particular people or culture, e.g. the Acheulian industry. If more than one class of objects (e.g. flint tools or bronze weapons) is found, it is a culture.

Set of artefacts, made of a single material, that is thought to represent the products of a single group. An industry may represent one of a group of industries making up a culture. For instance, the Linear Pottery culture has a distinctive stone industry and pottery industry, as well as characteristic settlement form, subsistence economy, and other traits.