Assemblage (archaeology)

Let's pretend you have a big puzzle to put together, but instead of having all the pieces neatly organized in a box, you have to go dig them up from the ground. Assemblage in archaeology is when you take all the individual pieces you've found- like rocks, bones, pottery shards- and group them together based on where you found them and what they look like.

It's like putting together a big puzzle, but instead of seeing the full picture, you have to use your imagination to figure out what the original object looked like. By grouping the pieces together and comparing them to similar artifacts found in other places, archaeologists can learn more about how people lived in the past and what kind of things they used and made.