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The first farming settlements and the houses people lived in.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Beit She'arim (Hebrew: בית שערים; Imperial Aramaic: בית שריי / Bet Sharei), also Besara (Greek: Βήσαρα), was a Jewish village located in the southwestern hills of the Lower Galilee, during the Roman…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Bayt Jibrin or Beit Jibrin (Arabic: بيت جبرين lit. 'House of the Powerful') was an Arab village in the Hebron Subdistrict of British Mandatory Palestine, in what is today the State of Israel, which…
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Ancient village
Bawomataluo village is a settlement in the Teluk Dalam province of the South Nias Regency of Indonesia.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
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…
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village
Iron Age (800 BCE-100 CE) · Castro Culture
Castro de Baroña Coastal Annex Terrace — Eastern Outlier in Galicia, A Coruna, Spain is a Iron Age (800 BCE-100 CE) ancient village attributed to Castro Culture.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Gyeongju Cheomseongdae South Stone 12 in Gyeongbuk, Gyeongju, South Korea is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇨🇱 Chile · Ancient village
Late Pleistocene 14,800–13,000 BP (MV-II 14,800 BP; MV-I earlier claim 33,000 BP contested) · Late Paleoindian (pre-Clovis; Monte Verde culture, Austral–Magellanic hunter-gatherers)
Earliest securely dated settlement in Americas (14,800–14,500 BP) – late Pleistocene campsite on paleo-channel terrace in southern Chile with preserved tent floors (3 structures 30 m² total,…
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Late Bronze Go Mun 1100–500 BCE (bridge Dong Dau → Dong Son) · Go Mun (Red River Late Bronze)
Red River Go Mun foundry-burial hamlet (1100–700 BCE) — 300 moulds at Xóm Rên, Phú Thọ.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2500 BCE) · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Late Neolithic village on Loch of Harray with 15 houses and ceremonial hall Structure 8 facing the Stones of Stenness.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Khirbat Umm Burj was a Palestinian Arab village in the Hebron Subdistrict, sometimes designated in modern maps as Burgin. Its ruins are today located within the borders of Israel.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Baysamun or Beisamoun (Arabic: بيسمون, Beisamûn) was a small Palestinian Arab village, located 16.5 kilometers (10.3 mi) in the marshy Hula Valley northeast of Safad.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Kot Diji I (3000–2700) → Transitional II (2700–2500) → Harappan III (2500–2100 BCE) · Kot Diji / Early Harappan → Mature Harappan (Bolan culture)
Early Harappan → Mature Harappan village (c.3000–2100 BCE) 6 km south of Mehrgarh on the Bolan terrace, Balochistan — 5 ha mound excavated 1985–96 by J-F. Jarrige (French Archaeological Mission).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Pottery Neolithic (c.8500–6600 BCE) · PPNB (southern Levantine)
Leja PPNB megasite north lobe (c.8500–6600 BCE, corridor buildings, lime statues) on basalt plateau.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
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.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
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…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic (Fikirtepe) · Marmara Neolithic (Fikirtepe)
Marmara type-site (c.6600–6000 BCE, Fikirtepe) bridging Anatolia and Balkan Neolithisation south of Lake İznik.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pre-Clovis to Clovis · Pre-Clovis (Cactus Hill)
Sandy terrace pre-Clovis site (16,000 BCE) with blades beneath Clovis on Nottoway River, Virginia.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient village
Hilleh Historical Village is a special sub-ground historical village in Osku County, Iran near to Osku in the vicinity of Kandovan, Osku. Currently nobody lives there.
