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CategoriesAncient villages

Ancient villages

The first farming settlements and the houses people lived in.

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🇯🇵Japan

🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village

Tham Lod Rockshelter

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.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

İmamoğlu Höyük

EBA-Iron Age (c.3000-700 BCE) · Amuq/Syro-Hittite (Amuq A-J to Iron Age Patina)

İmamoğlu Höyük — buried eba-iron tell/village at Gaziantep Province.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Tilki Tepe

Chalcolithic-EBA (c.5000-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes / Early Transcaucasian (Karaz-Pulur)

Tilki Tepe — buried chalcolithic-eba tell/village at Van Province.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village

Fedorivka Trypillia Settlement

Trypillia BI (c.4400–4100 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia

Mid-size Trypillia BI settlement near Fedorivka on the Ros basin interfluve, ca.25 ha with dense house clusters revealed by survey. Part of the early BI expansion northward.

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🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village

Mehrgarh

Neolithic to Early Bronze Age 7000–2600 BCE (Mehrgarh Periods I-VIII) · Pre-Harappan / Neolithic Balochistan

Neolithic-Bronze Age farming village and cemetery on Kachi Plain at foot of Bolan Pass, occupied 7000–2600 BCE with mud-brick houses, granaries and early dentistry evidence.

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🇸🇪 Sweden · Fortress

Lojsta Hall (Lojsta Slott)

Iron Age–Medieval (900–1361 CE) · Gotlandic Iron Age / Medieval

Reconstructed water fortress hall at Lojsta Slott on a small lake islet (Lojsta) in central Gotland, with causeway, timber hall 40 m and later stone tower.

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🇮🇳 India · Temple complex

Great Stupa at Sanchi

Maurya to Gupta 3rd century BCE–12th century CE (great stupa 260 BCE, gateways 25 BCE–50 CE) · Maurya / Sunga / Satavahana / Gupta Buddhist

Earliest stone Buddhist stupa (Maurya 3rd c BCE, enlarged Sunga 1st c BCE–1st c CE) crowning hilltop at Sanchi, 36.5 m diameter hemispheric brick-and-stone dome encasing relics.

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🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Ancient city

Wari-Bateshwar

Chalcolithic → Iron Age 500 BCE–300 CE · Iron Age Gangetic (NBPW)

Wari-Bateshwar — twin-village Early Historic port-city (Chalcolithic levels, Iron Age 500 BCE–300 CE) 70 km NE Dhaka, discovered 1933 Hanif Pathan, excavated 2000–10 Rahman.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Tell Kurdu

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.

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🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village

Tepantitla Palace / Tetitla Apartments, Teotihuacan (detailed)

Teotihuacan Classic · Teotihuacan

Tepantitla Palace / Tetitla Apartments, Teotihuacan (detailed) in State of Mexico, Mexico is a Teotihuacan Classic ancient village attributed to Teotihuacan culture.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Karataş-Semayük

Early Bronze Age I–II (c.3000–2300 BCE) · Early Bronze Lycian (Elmalı-Karataş) → Southwest Anatolian

Lycia's largest EB village with 180 pithos jar cemetery (3000 BCE) at Elmalı.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Coba Hoyuk

Neolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.6000–2200 BCE) · Amuq → Syro-Cilician

North Amik tell 11 m high (Amuq A–G, Halaf–EB continuity) between Alalakh and Zincirli.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village

Vilkhovets Trypillia Settlement

Trypillia BI–BII transition (c.4150–3950 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia

Trypillia settlement at Vilkhovets on the foothills of the Dnieper Uplands, bridging BI painted tradition and BII mega-site elaboration.

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🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village

Kwiambana Hillfort (Zamfara) – Stone-Walled Escarpment Town

Late Iron Age / Historic Hausa · Hausa / Katsinawa refugees

Huge dry-stone perimeter walls (3 km) enclosing plateau hilltown on brink of Kayra escarpment, refuge for Katsina peoples during 18th–19th c Fulani jihads.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village

Kosenivka Trypillia Settlement

Trypillia BII (c.4050–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia

BII settlement at Kosenivka in the core Southern Bug–Dnieper mega-site cluster between Dobrovody and Maydanets.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site

Doggerland

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…

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Toptepe

Neolithic-Chalcolithic (c.6000-3500 BCE) · Kırklareli–Karanovo to Gumelnița-Karanovo VI

Toptepe — buried neolithic-chalcolithic tell/village at Kırklareli Province.

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🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient village

Ntereso & Birimi (Ghana) – Kintampo Complex Villages

Later Stone Age Kintampo · Kintampo culture

Kintampo culture villages (2100–1400 BCE) with figurative terracotta 'cigars', ground stone axes and pioneering pearl millet + cowpea cultivation evidence (earliest in Ghana).

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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Iris

Middle Bronze to Byzantine (c.1800 BCE–600 CE) · MBA Canaanite → Late Bronze coastal → Iron → Hellenistic

Jableh plain farming tell (1800 BCE–600 CE) with Hellenistic amphora kiln north of Jableh.

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🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village

Thimlich Ohinga – Enclosure Stone Town (Lake Victoria)

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.

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🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village

Gwoza Hills Settlements

Iron Age to present (500 BCE–present) · Mandara / Wandala / Kanuri

Mandara terrace villages with 10 km stone terraces and iron forges.

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🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site

Atlit-Yam

PPNB (6900–6300 BCE) · PPNB Neolithic

Pre-Pottery Neolithic B mega-village (6900–6300 BCE) submerged 300–400 m offshore after post-glacial sea rise, with stone wall 150 m, paved well 5.5 m deep (earliest seawall and well), megalithic…

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Skara Brae

Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic

Exceptionally preserved Late Neolithic stone-built village of eight clustered houses with stone furniture, hearths and drains. Revealed 1850 after storm, often called Scotland's answer to Pompeii.

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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings

Pueblo I–III (600–1300 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi)

Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings (600–1300 CE) with 600 sites including Cliff Palace (150 rooms, 23 kivas) under sandstone alcoves, transitioning from pithouses to masonry pueblos before…