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Halaf → Northern Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk fringe
Halaf-Ubaid village (6200–5000 BCE) — 3 ha Euphrates hamlet, Pollock Birecik Dam salvage.
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CategoriesAncient villages
The first farming settlements and the houses people lived in.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Urartian Kingdom (9th–6th century BCE; later Urartian–Median–Achaemenid–Ottoman) · Urartian (Biainili) → Median → Achaemenid → Ottoman
Urartu's 100 m limestone citadel over Lake Van with royal rock-tombs and Xerxes trilingual.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf → Northern Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk fringe
Halaf-Ubaid village (6200–5000 BCE) — 3 ha Euphrates hamlet, Pollock Birecik Dam salvage.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age II-III peak; MBA-Hittite reuse · Central Anatolian EBA (Konya Plain) → Hittite Lower Land
Konya plain EBA walled city (33 ha) with MB karum and Hittite terraces — Sedat Alp’s plateau urbanism type-site south of Çatalhöyük.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Pastoral Neolithic to Sirikwa Iron Age (1500 BCE–1900 CE) · Pastoral Neolithic (Elmenteitan) → Sirikwa Iron Age pastoralists
Leakey's Nakuru type-site Hyrax Hill with Sirikwa holes and Neolithic pit-houses.
🇷🇺 Russia · Ancient city
Caucasian Albania to Sasanian to Islamic (c.100 BCE–19th c.; peak Sasanian 6th c.) · Caucasian Albanian → Sasanian Persian → Khazar → Arab → Shirvanshah → Russian
Sasanian 3.6 km double-wall Caspian Gates with Naryn-Kala citadel sealing Caucasus passage.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Early to Late Jomon 6000–1000 BCE · Early–Late Jomon (Date, Uchiura Bay)
Early to Late Jomon marine midden and ritual site (c.6000–1000 BCE) at Date, Hokkaido — 14.4 ha plateau site with massive shell mound (oyster, Scallop 3 m thick, 2500 m³), 70+ pit dwellings, lacquer…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf through EBA; Ubaid peak · Amuq Halaf → Ubaid → Amuq F (L. Chalcolithic–EBA)
Halaf-Ubaid tell (15 ha oval) defining Late Chalcolithic Ubaid north expansion, with tripartite kiln houses and channel-painted ceramics.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
LPPNB (Late PPNB) · Levantine LPPNB
Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B village (7500–6800 BCE, up to 10 ha), one of the largest and highest-altitude Neolithic settlements, controlling the Petra limestone plateau.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Classic (1150–1450 CE) · Hohokam (Tucson / Marana community)
Classic Hohokam platform 1150 CE — ballcourt & 150 m terrace rock-pile fields (Fish).
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient village
Middle Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Funnel Beaker (TRB)
Neolithic pile dwelling (c.3000 BCE) of the Funnel Beaker culture on the former shore of Lake Vättern, with piles preserved in peat, pottery, flint and cemeteries.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Epiclassic–Early Postclassic Tollan 900–1150 CE · Toltec (Tollan)
Tula elite barrio palace 50×40 m with temazcal and maguey ovens linked by causeway to Burned Palace.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Fort Ancient 1000–1750 CE, Mississippian-influenced Late Prehistoric · Fort Ancient (Central Algonquian, Fort Ancient tradition)
Reconstructed Fort Ancient circular village (3 acres) on Great Miami River terrace at Dayton: central plaza 42 m diameter ringed by post-mold houses, stockade with bastions, and reconstructed cedar…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Mehrgarh — Period II Communal Granary in Balochistan, Kachi, Mehrgarh, Pakistan is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed t…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Neolithic Merimde culture (4800–4300 BCE) · Lower Egyptian Neolithic (Merimde)
Merimde Beni Salama is Egypt's largest Neolithic village, 4800–4300 BCE Merimde culture, 44 ha mound with 1.5 m stratigraphy, oval houses 5×3 m wattle-and-daub, burial in settlement, lithics,…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Neolithic (7000–4000 BCE) · Vindhya Neolithic
Koldihwa — Early Rice Cultivation in Uttar Pradesh, Belan valley, India is a Neolithic (7000–4000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Vindhya Neolithic culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic 3000–1500 BCE (Period I–III) · Ahar-Banas / Mewar Chalcolithic
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas culture cluster (3000–1500 BCE) along Ahar and Banas rivers around Udaipur, Rajasthan, copper-working villages exploiting Aravalli Khetri copper belt.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Neolithic (7400–6000 BCE) · Neolithic Anatolian
Çatalhöyük — East Mound Building 131 North Wall in Konya, Çumra, Çatalhöyük, Turkey is a Neolithic (7400–6000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic …
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Umayyad Caliphate (c.711–715 CE) · Umayyad Arab / Byzantine influence
Umayyad desert castle bathhouse (qasr) built by Caliph Walid I (705–715 CE) famous for extensive frescoes: vaulted audience hall with hunting scenes, musicians, six kings (Byzantine, Sasanian,…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic · Burdur Lake Neolithic (Hacılar culture)
Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic tell (5700–3500 BCE) in the Burdur Lake District, where James Mellaart uncovered nine aceramic and ceramic Neolithic levels with lime-plaster floors and spectacular…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early–Middle Formative 1500–500 BCE (Rosario phase) · Zapotec (Mogote phase)
Earliest Zapotec urban precursor with Monument 3 captive blood glyph, earliest Oaxacan writing 600 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Betatakin Cliff Dwelling — buried ancestral tell/village at Arizona.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient village
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Castelluccio South Plateau Eccentric House in Sicily, Ragusa, Noto, Italy is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Neol…
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient village
Medieval to Modern (12th c. CE–20th c.; peak 13th–19th c.) · Berber (Nafusi) / Islamic
Qasr Al-Haj (near Gharyan) is a circular Berber granary (aghadir/ qasr) 12th c. CE, 30 m diameter ring of 114 ghurfas (cells) four storeys high around central courtyard, built of rock and gypsum…
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Ancient village
Iron Age to Early Historic (1000 BCE–300 CE) · Tamil megalithic to early Buddhist (Jaffna Dravidian)
Kantarodai is an Iron Age cemetery (1000 BCE–300 CE) north of Jaffna, a 2-ha field of 60 votive mini-stupas (1–2 m) over megalithic urn burials plus Tamil-Brahmi settlement (300 BCE).
