🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Çavi Tarlası — Nisibis Halaf Plain Settlement
Halaf (6100–5400 BCE) and early Ubaid transition · Halaf (Balikh facies)
Halaf tholos settlement 6100 BCE — keyhole tholoi with painted fine ware.
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🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient village
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Village of Knoll-Shelter in Sicily, Italy is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) ancient village attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Halaf (6100–5400 BCE) and early Ubaid transition · Halaf (Balikh facies)
Halaf tholos settlement 6100 BCE — keyhole tholoi with painted fine ware.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Early to Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic (Starčevo→Vinča) · Vinča culture (Old Europe)
Type-site of the Vinča culture (5700–4500 BCE), the most advanced Neolithic-Copper Age tell in Southeast Europe: 9 m cultural layer, 13 habitation horizons, figurines (Lady of Vinča), proto-writing…
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient village
Natufian to Bronze Age (12,000 BCE onward; tower c.8300 BCE) · Natufian → PPNA/PPNB → Canaanite
Tell with Natufian through Bronze Age layers including Pre-Pottery Neolithic A stone tower (c.8300 BCE) and wall – among earliest monumental architecture and fortification. Biblical Jericho.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell el-Hayyat — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Irbid Governorate.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Ancient village
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Pazyryk Frozen Kurgan Outlier West in Steppe, Kazakhstan is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Medieval culture.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Cueva del Diablo Petroglyph in Altiplano, Bolivia is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman to Byzantine (1st c.–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman-Christian
Episcopal village over spring with Saturn stelae and church.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Upper Palaeolithic to Mesolithic · Maglemosian / Mesolithic hunter-gatherers
Vast Mesolithic plain linking Britain to Europe (11000–5500 BCE) with river valleys, forests, hunting camps surveyed via seismic and cores; inundated by post-glacial rise and Storegga tsunami 6200…
🇫🇷 France · Ancient village
Harappan · Harappan
Harappan ancient-village at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon ancient-village at Central Anatolia.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Late Neolithic · Vinča
Vinča settlement at Belovode (c. 5400–4600 BCE) in eastern Serbia, with 80 ha scatter and early copper smelting furnaces (c.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Tepeticpac (Tlaxcala hill town) — buried prehistoric tell/village at Tlaxcala State.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Radingrad Tell — buried prehistoric tell/village at Razgrad Province.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Călărași-Măgura Gumelnița — buried prehistoric tell/village at Călărași County.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Azmashka Mogila (Azmak Tell) — buried prehistoric tell/village at Stara Zagora Province.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Ubaid–Uruk to Iron Age (4500–600 BCE) · Upper Euphrates Chalcolithic–Early Bronze
Ubaid–Uruk to Iron Age (4500–600 BCE) tell of Upper Euphrates Chalcolithic–Early Bronze in Adıyaman Province, Samsat Plain (c.4500 BCE).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Neolithic 3240 BCE · Late Neolithic Somerset Levels farmers
Neolithic timber trackway (3240 BCE, 2 km) at Meare Heath, longest Neolithic timber structure in Britain, successor to Sweet Track.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Halaf (8500–5500 BCE) · PPNB–Halaf (8500–5500 BCE)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Halaf (8500–5500 BCE) tell of PPNB–Halaf (8500–5500 BCE) in Şanlıurfa Province, Middle Euphrates (c.8500 BCE).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Medio Period (Casas Grandes, 1205–1340 CE) with Viejo substrate · Casas Grandes (Chihuahua Culture / Mogollon–Paquimé)
Paquimé (Casas Grandes) — Medio Period Great House and Mound is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Chihuahua State, Casas Grandes Municipality, Rio Casas Grandes valley, Mexico — Largest northern…
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Roman Iron Age (Angles) · Germanic Angles (North Germanic)
Thorsberg moor (Thorsberger Moor, Thorsberg Mose) peat bog (18 m asl, 54°38′14″N 09°46′07″E 54.6373,9.7687) in Anglia where Angles deposited votive offerings for four centuries, with 100 m oak…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age, British Middle–Late (Hod Hill + Glastonbury ware) · Iron Age Somerset wetland Britons (Durotriges–Dumnonii border)
250 BCE–50 BCE Iron Age peat islands—90 wattle houses on Somerset artificial crannogs.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Late Pre-Columbian (800–1600 CE) · Upper Xingu / ancestral Kuikuro Arawak
Eastern plaza K10 of Kuhikugu cluster on Seki East — 12 ha plaza with ditch and 1.2 km causeway.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic through Early Bronze IV (3500–2200 BCE) · Uruk → Early Dynastic Syrian city-state → EBA steppe city
Tell Chuera (Chuera / Harab Sawwan) — Steinbau Sanctuary Terrace is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Raqqa Governorate, Balikh–Euphrates steppe, Chuera plain, Syria — Steppe Early Bronze walled…
