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CategoriesAncient villages
The first farming settlements and the houses people lived in.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Roman to Byzantine (2nd–7th c. CE) · Roman (Numidia)
Outlier fortlet of Thubunae on Hodna rim with 6-tower enceinte.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Early Mesolithic (9300–8500 BCE) · Early Mesolithic (Maglemosian)
Star Carr Mesolithic Site in North Yorkshire, Vale of Pickering, United Kingdom is a Early Mesolithic (9300–8500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Early Mesolithic (Maglemosian) culture.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Late Pleistocene to Holocene (c.35000–10000 BP Hoabinhian) · Hoabinhian hunter-gatherers
Hoabinhian karst rockshelter (35,000–10,000 BP) — continuous pebble-tool sequence before Neolithic.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Late Iron Age (16th–19th c. CE) · Luo (Kabuoch)
Thimlich Ohinga — Kakuku Enclosure in Migori County, Kenya is a Late Iron Age (16th–19th c. CE) ancient-village attributed to Luo (Kabuoch).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic (6000–5200 BCE) · Çatalhöyük-Chalcolithic
Çatalhöyük West Mound — Chalcolithic in Konya Plain, Çumra, Turkey is a Chalcolithic (6000–5200 BCE) tell attributed to Çatalhöyük-Chalcolithic culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA-Iron Age (c.3000-700 BCE) · Amuq/Syro-Hittite (Amuq A-J to Iron Age Patina)
Tell Kurdu — buried eba-iron tell/village at Hatay Province.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Mogollon Tularosa 1275–1300 CE · Mogollon
46 rooms in five caves 1275–1300 CE, Mogollon.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7000 BCE) · Jarmo-related
Magzalia — Jarmo Outlier Neolithic Village in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7000 BCE) ancient-village attributed to Jarmo-related.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Bronze Age · Cornish Bronze Age
St Agnes Beacon Settlement Terraces in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age ancient-village attributed to Cornish Bronze Age.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age · Dumnonii
Sancreed Beehive Hut — Chapel Euny in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Bronze Age · Cornish Bronze Age
Gunwalloe Hut Circles — Loe Bar in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age ancient-village attributed to Cornish Bronze Age.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Pictish (7th–9th c.) and Norse (9th–12th c.) · Pictish / Norse (Earldom of Orkney)
Tidal islet at Birsay linked by causeway, famous for Pictish and Norse settlements overlapping. Pictish symbol stones and Norse earldom complex (9th–11th c.) with broch foundations underneath.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Mijikenda (16th c. CE) · Mijikenda (Jibana)
Kaya Jibana — Kilifi Badlands in Kilifi County, Kenya is a Mijikenda (16th c. CE) ancient-village attributed to Mijikenda (Jibana).
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Ancient village
Middle to Late Neolithic · Hazendonk Group / Vlaardingen
Neolithic river dune (donk) settlement Hazendonk (c. 4000–2000 BCE) on Rhine-Meuse levee, type-site for Hazendonk Group pottery.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Late Iron Age · Bantu / Luo (Kabwa)
Largest of 138 Lake Victoria dry-stone enclosures (15th–19th c), UNESCO 2018. Concentric walls 1–4.2 m high ×51–152 m diam with internal compounds, shafts, and livestock pens.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Sinagua (1125–1250 CE) · Sinagua
Walnut Canyon excavated by Fewkes and Colton 1930s, Sinagua canyon rim and canyon.
🇬🇷 Greece · Tell
Early to Middle Neolithic · Sesklo Culture
Classic Early to Middle Neolithic tell (c. 6000–4800 BCE) near Volos, type-site of Sesklo culture with early painted pottery, megaron-like houses and fortification wall.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Kharruba was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, near Modi'in. It was located 8 km east of Ramla. It was depopulated on July 12, 1948, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Kebbi Empire (15th–18th c.) · Kebbi / Zamfarawa
Chain of 4 hilltop outlier forts with 1.5 km walls each protecting Surame fields.
🇵🇱 Poland · Ancient village
Bystrzyca [bɨsˈtʂɨt͡sa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oława, within Oława County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
🇸🇰 Slovakia · Ancient village
Gánovce is a village in the Poprad District of the Prešov Region in northern Slovakia, situated 3 km south-east from the town of Poprad.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Ancient village
Busskirch is a village (Kirchdorf) within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Greek Orthodox monastery and Tentative UNESCO World Heritage Site in Turkey
🇵🇱 Poland · Ancient village
village in Gmina Czersk, Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
