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CategoriesAncient villages

Ancient villages

The first farming settlements and the houses people lived in.

Places: 1,236
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🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell

Karanovo Tell South Sector

Early Neolithic to Late Chalcolithic (6200–3800 BCE) · Karanovo I–VII → KGK VI (Gumelnița–Karanovo VI)

Karanovo Tell South Sector is the southern lobe of Karanovo tell — the type-site for Balkan Neolithic–Chalcolithic chronology (Karanovo I–VII, 6200–3800 BCE) on the Thracian plain.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Köşk Höyük

Neolithic–Late Chalcolithic (6000–3200 BCE) · Central Anatolian (Cappadocian) Neolithic–Chalcolithic

Bor Plateau Neolithic village with painted floors, earliest copper and plastered skulls.

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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Halula

Middle PPNB to Halaf-Ubaid (8500–5500 BCE) · Middle Euphrates PPNB → Halaf

Middle Euphrates PPNB–Ubaid sequence tell with fingerprint-on-figurine craft study.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Pessinus (Ballıhisar)

Chalcolithic to Byzantine; Phrygian-Roman sanctuary peak · Phrygian → Galatian Tolistobogii → Roman Galatia

Mother-goddess sanctuary-city of Cybele — Phrygian terraces, Hellenistic temple and Roman acropolis buried under Ballıhisar mound on Sangarios.

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🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Tell Madhhur

Ubaid through Early Dynastic II (c.5000–2500 BCE); Ubaid 3–4, Uruk, Jemdat Nasr, ED I–II · Ubaid southern → Uruk–Jemdat Nasr → Early Dynastic Diyala regional

Ubaid–ED Hamrin house mound with tripartite ED I house (House 1) — British Hamrin Dam salvage town (5000–2500 BCE).

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🇮🇳 India · Ancient village

Kayatha Choti Kali Sindh Mound

Chalcolithic Kayatha 2400–2000 → Malwa 1700–1400 BCE → Early Historic · Kayatha culture (type-site) → Malwa Chalcolithic

Kayatha Choti Kali Sindh Mound — Kayatha culture type-site (2400–2000 BCE earliest agriculture in Malwa) and successive Kayatha → Ahar → Malwa → Early Historic sequence on Malwa plateau, discovered…

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Zeytinli Bahçe Höyük

Halaf-Ubaid to Early Bronze (5500–3000 BCE; peak LC 3800–3300 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Euphrates → Uruk fringe

Euphrates Ubaid–Uruk terrace tell with tripartite elite hall and wall painting.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Başur Höyük

Late Chalcolithic (LC4-5) pre-Uruk to Jemdet Nasr · Upper Tigris LC culture (Uruk-extended / local transcaucasian)

Siirt ‘royal’ chalcolithic cemetery (3500–3000 BCE) with retainer burials — copper, lapis and earliest gaming set at Uruk fringe, Upper Tigris inequality origin.

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🇮🇳 India · Ancient city

Mitathal

Sothi → Mature → Late Harappan / OCP 3000–1500 BCE · Indus Valley (Sothi–Harappan Eastern Domain)

Key Indus Eastern Domain type-site (c.3000–1500 BCE) on the Drishadvati–Sarasvati divide at Bhiwani, Haryana — two mounds (A 23 ha citadel, B 10 ha lower town) excavated 1968 by Suraj Bhan revealing…

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Chatal Höyük (Çatal Höyük Amuq)

Neolithic through Iron; Amuq A-J typology · Amuq Neolithic → Halaf → Ubaid → EBA → Syro-Hittite

Amuq type-site mound defining Amuq A–J phases (Neolithic–Iron) — 22 m deposit with Neolithic painted ware, Ninevite V and Iron Syro-Hittite ceramics.

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🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village

Mizuko Shell Midden

Jomon 6000–1800 BCE (Early to Final) stratified · Jomon (Kanto)

132 m Kanto Jomon shell midden — 5× stratified with 35 pit houses on Musashino (Mizuko, 6000–1800 BCE).

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🇮🇳 India · Ancient village

Ahar Dhulkot Mound

Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic 3000–1500 BCE · Ahar-Banas Ahar ware — type-site defining culture

Ahar Dhulkot Mound — eponymous Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic type-site (3000–1500 BCE) on Ahar River at Udaipur's eastern edge, excavated 1961–62 by H.D. Sankalia (Deccan College) and R.C. Agrawal.

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🇷🇴 Romania · Tell

Hârşova Tell Block M

Late Neolithic to Eneolithic (5500–3500 BCE) · Boian → Hamangia → Gumelnița → Cernavodă

Hârşova Tell Block M is the eastern lobe of Hârşova tell — the largest tell in Romania (200×60 m base, 11 m high) on the Danube right bank above ancient Carsium.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Ilıpınar Höyük

Late Neolithic to EBA (Marmara Neolithic, Chalcolithic) · Marmara Neolithic (Fikirtepe) → Late Chalcolithic (İznik) → EBA

Marmara lakeside Neolithic tell (5800–3500 BCE) with waterlogged wooden tools — wattle-daub village, bone sickles, then ditched Chalcolithic mound, İznik Lake type-site.

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🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village

Nahal Ein Gev II

Epipalaeolithic Late Natufian (12,500–11,700 BP) · Late Natufian (Levant)

Late Natufian lake-margin hamlet with carved pebbles and bedrock mortar village near Sea of Galilee.

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🇮🇳 India · Ancient village

Imlidih Khurd

Pre-Narhan Neolithic-Chalcolithic 3500–1400 BCE → Overlapped by Narhan · Sarayupar Pre-Narhan (Vindhyan-derived)

Pre-Narhan early farming settlement (c.3500–2000 BCE) in the Sarayupar plain at Gorakhpur, immediately preceding Narhan — excavated 1992–96 by Purushottam Singh and Rakesh Tewari, Imlidih Khurd…

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🇺🇸 United States · Tell

Mesa Grande Hohokam Platform Mound Extension

Classic Period Hohokam (1100–1450 CE) · Hohokam Classic Period (Pueblo Grande region)

Mesa Grande Hohokam Platform Mound Extension is the eastern lower terrace of Mesa Grande Ruin — the largest extant Hohokam platform mound in the Salt River Valley, within modern Mesa.

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🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient village

Yanık Tepe (Yanik Tepe)

Late Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze (3600–1400 BCE; peak Kura-Araxes 3000–2500 BCE) · Urmia Chalcolithic → Kura-Araxes (Transcaucasian) → Early Urmia Bronze

Lake Urmia Kura-Araxes lakeside tell with black burnished round houses and metal workshops.

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🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Brick Church Mound and Village

Mississippian (Thruston phase 1000–1370 CE) · Mississippian (Middle Cumberland – Thruston)

Mississippian mound-and-village on Mansker Creek near Nashville: platform mound 6 m high (50×35 m) rebuilt four times, truncating earlier Woodland component; village 4 ha with 300+ stone-box graves,…

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🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village

Shubayqa 1 (Shubayqa)

Early Natufian to MPPNB (14,600–9000 BP) · Natufian → PPNA → PPNB (Levantine Badia)

Harra playa Natufian village that produced world's earliest bread (14,400 BP).

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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Chetro Ketl (Chaco Canyon)

Pueblo II-III; Chacoan florescence then McElmo Mesa Verde · Chacoan Ancestral Puebloans (Homools? Pueblo I-III) → McElmo Mesa Verde

Chaco’s second city (400 rooms, D-shaped, 1010–1110 CE) with colonnade and great kiva — McElmo-renovated great house, 3 storeys high on north Chaco mesa.

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🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park

Late Woodland – early Mississippian, Plum Bayou 650–1050 CE · Plum Bayou (aboriginal ancestors of Quapaw? Coles Creek related, not Caddo Mississippian)

Best-preserved Plum Bayou-culture platform-mound center (650–1050 CE) – 18 mounds (two tallest 15 m and 12 m) arranged geometrically around rectangular plazas and an earthwork embankment with…

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🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient village

Hajji Firuz Tepe

Late Neolithic–Late Chalcolithic (5900–4000 BCE; wine horizon 5400 BCE) · Hajji Firuz / Dalma (Urmia basin Chalcolithic)

Solduz Valley Chalcolithic village with world's earliest wine jars (5400 BCE tartaric acid).

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🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city

Zilum (Chad Basin Proto-city)

Iron Age Sahel / Nok contemporary (550–350 BCE) · Gajiganna culture

12-ha 550 BCE Gajiganna proto-city with 5-m ditch and early Sahelian iron furnace.