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CategoriesAncient villages
The first farming settlements and the houses people lived in.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age – Romano-British · Dumnonii
Pengersick Enclosed Hut Group in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age – Romano-British ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Pueblo II 1076–1125 CE · Chacoan
Chacoan Great House at 2310 m, lunar standstill alignment 1076–1093 CE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic-Chalcolithic (c.6000-3500 BCE) · Kırklareli–Karanovo to Gumelnița-Karanovo VI
Toptepe — buried neolithic-chalcolithic tell/village at Kırklareli Province.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient village
Later Stone Age Kintampo · Kintampo culture
Kintampo culture villages (2100–1400 BCE) with figurative terracotta 'cigars', ground stone axes and pioneering pearl millet + cowpea cultivation evidence (earliest in Ghana).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7000 BCE) · Jarmo-related
Matarrah — Jarmo Hinterland Village in Kirkuk Governorate, Iraq is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7000 BCE) ancient-village attributed to Jarmo-related.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Early Mesolithic · Aegean Mesolithic
Early Mesolithic open-air village on Kythnos (c. 8800–8600 BCE), the earliest Holocene settlement in the Cyclades with stone-built floors, burials, imported Melian obsidian and marine fauna.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient village
Garamantian (500 BCE–600 CE) · Garamantian oasis farmers
Fewet excavated by di Lernia 2000s, 100 tumuli satellite to Garama.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Middle Bronze to Byzantine (c.1800 BCE–600 CE) · MBA Canaanite → Late Bronze coastal → Iron → Hellenistic
Jableh plain farming tell (1800 BCE–600 CE) with Hellenistic amphora kiln north of Jableh.
🇫🇷 France · Ancient village
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon ancient-village at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Bronze Age · Bronze Age
Bronze Age ancient-village at Haryana.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
PPNB (8200–7000 BCE) · PPNB Ghoraife
Ghoraife — Damascus Basin Neolithic Hamlets in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria is a PPNB (8200–7000 BCE) ancient-village attributed to PPNB Ghoraife. Hamlet scatter 0.5 ha with pits near Ghoraife wadi.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Iron Age to present (500 BCE–present) · Mandara / Wandala / Kanuri
Mandara terrace villages with 10 km stone terraces and iron forges.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Ancient village
Alaminos (Greek: Αλαμινός, Turkish: Aleminyo) is a village in the Larnaca District of Cyprus, west of the city of Larnaca.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic ancient-village at Hidalgo.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient village
Classical · Classical
Classical ancient-village at Huanuco.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite ancient-village at Orkney.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Chalcolithic · Chalcolithic Anatolia
Duplicate for completeness – see Çatalhöyük main entry; West Mound Chalcolithic extension (6000–5600 BCE).
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite ancient-village at Aomori.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic · Vinča
Vinča culture settlement at Pločnik (c. 5500–4700 BCE) on Toplica River terrace, renowned for earliest copper metallurgy (c. 5000 BCE), pit houses and Vinča figurines.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic · Karanovo VI / Gumelnița
Northern terrace of Yunatsite tell (c. 5000–4100 BCE), 12 m high mound with Chalcolithic destruction layers, copper metallurgy and fortification, extension of main tell showing violent end c.
🇭🇺 Hungary · Tell
Late Neolithic · Tisza / Csőszhalom
Late Neolithic double tell-horizontal settlement (c. 4800–4500 BCE) on Tisza floodplain, 28 ha with tell core 2 m high, ditch enclosures and 4 m deep well.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Exceptionally preserved Late Neolithic stone-built village of eight clustered houses with stone furniture, hearths and drains. Revealed 1850 after storm, often called Scotland's answer to Pompeii.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Neolithic Yangshao (5800–3000 BCE; classic 5000–3000 BCE) · Yangshao (Dadiwan culture, Painted Pottery)
Dadiwan is the type site of Yangshao Dadiwan culture (5800–3000 BCE) on the Wei River terrace — 50-ha Neolithic village with 200+ house pits, painted pottery, and the 290-m² Palace F901 (4000 BCE,…
