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CategoriesAncient villages

Ancient villages

The first farming settlements and the houses people lived in.

Places: 849
Countries: 76
World Heritage: 49

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🇯🇵Japan

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Tepecik Höyük (Çiftlik / Melendiz Plain)

Aceramic Neolithic through Early Bronze (7000–2700 BCE) · Cappadocian Aceramic → Early Chalcolithic → Late Chalcolithic (Melendiz)

Tepecik Höyük (Çiftlik / Melendiz Plain) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Niğde Province, Çiftlik District, Melendiz plain, Cappadocia, Turkey — Cappadocian Neolithic obsidian-processing…

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🇮🇷 Iran · Tell

Dinkha Tepe

Late Bronze–Iron (1500–800 BCE) · Iron Age Hasanlu LBA

Late Bronze–Iron (1500–800 BCE) tell of Iron Age Hasanlu LBA in West Azerbaijan, Ushnu-Solduz (c.1500 BCE).

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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Chagar Bazar (Ašnakkum / Khabur Ware Capital)

Neolithic through Old Babylonian (Halaf/Ubaid through Khabur Ware Ašnakkum) · Halaf → Ubaid → Ninevite V → Akkadian → Ur III → Old Babylonian (Ašnakkum)

Tell Chagar Bazar (Ašnakkum / Khabur Ware Capital) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Hasakah Governorate, Khabur Triangle, Wadi Dara tributary, Syria — Khabur Triangle city-state capital…

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🇨🇳 China · Ancient village

Xinglongwa

Xinglongwa culture 6200–5400 BCE → Zhaobaogou → Hongshan · Xinglongwa (Liao River Neolithic, Proto-Mongolic?)

Type-site for Xinglongwa culture (c.6200–5400 BCE, 8200–7400 BP) on the Aohan hills near Chifeng, Inner Mongolia — earliest Neolithic on the Mongolian plateau, 120 pit-house village with central…

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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell es-Sweyhat (Upper Lake Tabqa Euphrates Town)

Late Chalcolithic through Late Bronze (4400–1200 BCE) · Uruk → EB Syrian city-state → EB IV → Middle Bronze

Tell es-Sweyhat (Upper Lake Tabqa Euphrates Town) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Raqqa Governorate, Tabqa Lake (Euphrates) east bank, Sweyhat plain, Syria — Euphrates steppe-edge walled…

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🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient village

Dhar Walata (Oualata)

Neolithic to medieval (1500 BCE–17th c; historic 11th c) · Tichitt culture → Soninke Wagadu → Beidane Moors

Neolithic to oasis caravan terminus: Tichitt-culture compounds plus red-white geometric plaster houses of 11th-c Ghana twin capital Biru.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Liman Tepe (Urla-Iskele Prehistoric Harbour)

Late Chalcolithic through Roman (Chalcolithic, EB I-III, MBA, Late Bronze, Classical, Roman) · Western Anatolian coastal → Troy I-II contemporary → Mycenaean contact → Ionian Klazomenai

Liman Tepe (Urla-Iskele Prehistoric Harbour) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in İzmir Province, Urla District, Urla-Iskele bay, Turkey — Earliest Aegean harbour town — prehistoric port with…

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village

Must Farm Bronze Age Settlement

Late Bronze Age (~1000–800 BCE) · British Late Bronze Age fenland communities

900 BCE stilt village burned and silt-sealed—Britain's Pompeii with pots still stacked.

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🇮🇪 Ireland · Archaeological wonder

Corlea Bog Trackway Eastern Extension (Roscommon)

Iron Age (La Tène B / Gaelic Ireland) · Gaelic Iron Age Ireland

Eastern continuation (48 m asl, 53°37′N 07°50′W 53.62,-7.84 Cloonbreany 2 Cartron Rd N39 XT18) of the Iron Age Corlea Trackway (148 BC precise dendro of 18-m preserved hall, 148 BC autumn fell) bog…

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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Teoc Creek Site

Late Woodland – Early Mississippian (c.700–1200 CE) Miller III – Mississippian · Late Woodland – Baytown – Early Mississippian

Teoc Creek is a small Late Woodland to Early Mississippian mound-hamlet on Teoc Creek in Carroll County, Mississippi, in the upper Yazoo Basin.

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🇳🇴 Norway · Tumulus

Oseberg Ship Burial – Vestfold Viking Grave

Viking Age (Merovingian to Viking) · Viking Norse (Yngling dynasty)

21.6-m Viking karvi burial (834 CE) under 44-m mound — richest preserved Viking wooden burial.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Çukuriçi Höyük

Late Neolithic through Early Bronze Age II (c.6700-2750 BCE) · Aegean-Neolithic to Chalcolithic to Western Anatolian EBA

Neolithic-EBA shoreline tell (6680-2750 BCE) at Ephesus — earliest Aegean copper workshop and EBA walled village.

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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Bi'a (Tuttul) — Zimri-Lim Palace Quarter

Late Chalcolithic through Mitanni (3500–1300 BCE) · Uruk → EBA Tuttul (Dagan) → Old Babylonian → Mitanni

Tell Bi'a (Tuttul) — Zimri-Lim Palace Quarter is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Raqqa Governorate, Balikh-Euphrates confluence, Raqqa District, Syria — Sacred city of Dagan — Tuttul —…

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Höyücek (Höyücek Höyük / Burdur Sanctuary)

Late Neolithic through Early Bronze (6400–2700 BCE) · Burdur–Antalya Late Neolithic → Early Chalcolithic shrine phase → Lakes EBA

Höyücek (Höyücek Höyük / Burdur Sanctuary) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Burdur Province, Bucak District, Burdur–Antalya foothills, Turkey — Neolithic–Chalcolithic sanctuary village with…

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village

Hatfield Moor Neolithic Trackway (Lindholme Trackway) – South Yorkshire

Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Humberhead communities (Grooved Ware)

821-m Neolithic pine corduroy trackway (2435 BCE) on Hatfield Moor — longest British Neolithic.

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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Jinderis (Jindires / Gindaros) — Hilltop Stronghold

Chalcolithic through Roman (Chalcolithic, EBA, Iron, Hellenistic-Roman Gindaros) · Afrin chalcolithic → Amuq EBA → Aramaean → Hellenistic-Roman Gindaros

Tell Jinderis (Jindires / Gindaros) — Hilltop Stronghold is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Aleppo Governorate, Afrin District, Afrin River plain, Kurd-Dagh, Syria — Afrin plain hilltop tell…

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🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder

Wittmoor Bog Trackways I & II (Hamburg Rhineland)

Early Iron Age (Jastorf / La Tène) · North German Early Iron Age

Dual Iron Age bog trackways (25 m asl) southeast through Wittmoor (Moor 53°42′00″N 10°04′10″E 53.699984N 10.069399E per Wikipedia No II 1904 Wolff discovery) and parallel No I 500 m northeast.

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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Montezuma Castle National Monument

Sinagua (c.1100–1400 CE) Southern Sinagua Classic · Sinagua

Montezuma Castle – neither castle nor Aztec – is North America's best-preserved cliff dwelling, inset 30 m up a vertical limestone cliff above Beaver Creek in Verde Valley, Arizona.

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🇯🇵 Japan · Archaeological wonder

Awazu Shell Midden

Incipient Jomon (12000) → Early Jomon 8000–6000 BCE (Jomon lakeshore forager) · Jomon (Lake Biwa Incipient–Early Jomon)

Incipient–Early Jomon lakeshore shell midden (c.12000–6000 BCE) on Lake Biwa eastern bank at Awazu, Otsu — 0.8 ha freshwater shell mound (Seta shijimi clam) excavated 1962–86 by Shiga Prefecture,…

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🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell

Formative Olmec (c.1500–500 BCE); Early–Middle Formative 1500–700 BCE (Olmec apogee 900–500 BCE), Late Formative 500–100 BCE, Epiclassic 500–900 CE · Olmec (Gulf Coast style) → Highland central Mexican Formative (Tlatilco–Olmec) → Late Formative Morelos

Olmec Highland hill-carved ceremonial terraces (c.1500–500 BCE) with 9 Olmec relief panels outside Gulf heartland (Grove).

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Karatepe-Aslantaş (Azatiwataya) Open-Air Citadel

Iron Age Neo-Hittite (732–650 BCE) with EBA substrate · Neo-Hittite Luwian–Phoenician (Adana plain)

Karatepe-Aslantaş (Azatiwataya) Open-Air Citadel is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Osmaniye Province, Kadirli District, Ceyhan River, Taurus foothills, Turkey — Northern Cilician gateway…

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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Mitchell Site

Mississippian (c.1050–1250 CE) Early–Middle Mississippian Stirling phase · Mississippian (Cahokia)

The Mitchell Site (11S2) is a Middle Mississippian mound-and-village suburb of Greater Cahokia on the Horseshoe Lake meander opposite Collinsville, Illinois.

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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Beydar (Nabada) — Eastern Palace Sector

Early Dynastic III through Mitanni (2900–1300 BCE) · Early Dynastic (Nabada) → Akkadian → Ur III → Old Babylonian → Mitanni

Tell Beydar (Nabada) — Eastern Palace Sector is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Hasakah Governorate, Khabur headwaters, Darbasiyah plain, Syria — Early Dynastic city-state Nabada — eastern…

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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Walnut Canyon National Monument

Sinagua (c.1100–1250 CE) Northern Sinagua – Cohonina transition · Northern Sinagua

Walnut Canyon National Monument preserves 300+ Northern Sinagua cliff dwellings (c.1100–1250 CE) set in shallow alcoves under the Kaibab Limestone rim of a 122m-deep canyon 12 km east of Flagstaff,…