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The first farming settlements and the houses people lived in.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
national monument in northern Arizona, USA
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Ashdod (Hebrew: אַשְׁדּוֹד, romanized: ʾašdōḏ, pronounced [ʔaʃˈdod]; Arabic: أسدود, romanized: ʾasdūd, pronounced [ʔasˈduːd], or إسدود, ʾisdūd [ʔɪsˈduːd]; Philistine: 𐤀𐤔𐤃𐤃, romanized: *ʾašdūd)…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Bilche-Zolote (Ukrainian: Більче-Золоте Bil'che Zolote; Polish: Bilcze Złote; Hebrew: בילצ'ה זלוטה, romanized: Vilche Zlote) is a Ukrainian village located within the Chortkiv Raion (district) of the…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age, Early to Middle La Tene 456-395 BCE · Iron Age La Tene Lincolnshire
456/395 BCE Iron Age timber causeway (175 m) at Fiskerton, Witham Valley with 11 votive swords and logboats.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Bronze Age 1500-1000 BCE · Late Bronze Age Thames estuary farmers/fishers
1500 BCE Late Bronze Age intertidal brushwood causeway (120 m) at Beckton, Thames estuary tidal trackway.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age 1200 BCE - 300 BCE · Late Bronze to Iron Age Hebridean
1200 BCE - 300 BCE nucleated roundhouse village (12 houses) at Cladh Hallan, South Uist with composite peat-preserved mummies (1500 BCE).
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Canyon de Chelly National Monument ( də-SHAY) was established on April 1, 1931, as a unit of the National Park Service.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (3500–3000 BCE) · Proto-Elamite / Late Uruk
Late Chalcolithic (3500–3000 BCE) tell of Proto-Elamite / Late Uruk in Tehran Province, Rey Plain (c.3400 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Early Bronze (3000–2500 BCE) · Early Bronze (Arisman–Sialk IV)
Early Bronze (3000–2500 BCE) tell of Early Bronze (Arisman–Sialk IV) in Isfahan Province, Natanz (c.3000 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Fortress
Iron Age III (900–600 BCE) · Mannaean–Scythian
Iron Age III (900–600 BCE) fortress of Mannaean–Scythian in Kurdistan Province, Saqqez (c.750 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Middle–Late Chalcolithic (5000–3500 BCE) · Dalma–Godin Chalcolithic
Middle–Late Chalcolithic (5000–3500 BCE) tell of Dalma–Godin Chalcolithic in Kermanshah Province, Kangavar Valley (c.5000 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8500–7000 BCE) · PPNB Neolithic
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8500–7000 BCE) tell of PPNB Neolithic in Malatya Province, Middle Euphrates (c.8500 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Neolithic – Chalcolithic (7200–5000 BCE) · Archaic Susiana
Neolithic – Chalcolithic (7200–5000 BCE) tell of Archaic Susiana in Khuzestan Province, Susiana Plain (c.7200 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Hittite Empire through Neo-Hittite (1375–800 BCE) · Hittite → Neo-Hittite Samʾal
Yesemek Basalt Quarry & Sculpture Workshop (Amanos Piedmont) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Gaziantep Province, İslahiye District, Amanos foothills, Yesemek village, Turkey — Empire-scale…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Dynastic through Parthian (2900 BCE–100 CE) · Early Dynastic Halaf → Mitanni Kahat → Middle & Neo-Assyrian
Tell Barri (Kahat) — Assyrian Palace and Neo-Assyrian Town is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Hasakah Governorate, Jaghjagh River, Tell Brak–Nisibis corridor, Syria — Hurrian Kahat then…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Iron Age (Median/Phrygian to Lydian-Achaemenid destruction 547 BCE) · Median-Phrygian Cappadocian (Pteria identification)
Kerkenes Dağ (Kerkenes / Pteria) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Yozgat Province, Sorgun–Yozgat upland, Kerkenes granite massif, Turkey — Giant 271 ha Iron Age mountain city — largest…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Bronze–Iron (1500–800 BCE) · Iron Age Hasanlu LBA
Late Bronze–Iron (1500–800 BCE) tell of Iron Age Hasanlu LBA in West Azerbaijan, Ushnu-Solduz (c.1500 BCE).
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Mezhyrich (Ukrainian: Межиріч, also referred to as Mezhirich) is a village (selo) in central Ukraine.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Malwa Chalcolithic 1700–1400 BCE → Avanti Early Historic 700–500 BCE · Malwa Chalcolithic → Avanti (Ujjain) Early Historical
Malwa hillock at Nagda Junction — Banerjee/B.B. Lal's Malwa type (round huts, buff ware, 1.6 km NW of station).
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Qujialing 3400–2600 BCE → Shijiahe 2600–2300 → Longshan · Qujialing culture (Middle Yangzi Chalcolithic) → Shijiahe
Type-site for Qujialing culture (c.3400–2600 BCE) on the Qujialing–Shijiahe plateau north of Chang Lake in Jianghan Plain — 263 ha palisaded terrace (eastern plateau 160 m height) excavated 1955–57…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic through Neo-Hittite (4000–700 BCE) · Amanos piedmont → Yamhad (Alalakh) → Hittite → Neo-Hittite
Tilmen Höyük (Tilmen Palace Mound West Terrace) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Gaziantep Province, İslahiye District, Amanos foothills, Turkey — Amanos gateway kingdom capital with MBA…
🇵🇱 Poland · Ancient village
Early Iron Age, Lusatian culture Hallstatt C · Lusatian (Lausitz) culture Hallstatt-period farmers
740 BCE Lusatian lake-fort—106 identical street-grid houses on Lake Biskupin islet.
