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🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village

Abu Gosh

Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Pottery Neolithic (7600–5500 BCE) · Southern Levant PPNB → Yarmoukian (Pottery Neolithic)

Judean Hills PPNB ridge village with goat domestication ancient DNA archive.

🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid

Sai Island Pyramid & Temple Complex

Kerma Classic to Napatan (2500–300 BCE) · Kerma / Egyptian / Kushite

Strategic Nile island town with Kerma tumuli and Napatan small pyramids — Egyptian fortress-temple city 1550 BCE on 12 km Sai Island between 2nd–3rd cataracts.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city

Nevalı Çori

Early PPNB · Upper Euphrates PPNB

PPNB ritual settlement (c.8400–8100 BCE) on the middle Euphrates, sister-site to Göbekli Tepe with limestone T-pillars, terrazzo floors, and anthropogenic limestone sculptures of humans and birds…

🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city

Machu Picchu Outlier Terrace

Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic

Machu Picchu Outlier Terrace in Colorado Plateau, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.

🇮🇳 India · Ancient city

Kiln Workshop Complex North — Ganga Plain (Patna)

Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic

Kiln Workshop Complex North in Ganga Plain, India is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.

🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city

Oven Cluster West — Coastal Peru (Lima)

Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical

Oven Cluster West in Coastal Peru, Peru is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.

🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village

Belovode — Vinča Copper Settlement

Late Neolithic · Vinča

Vinča settlement at Belovode (c. 5400–4600 BCE) in eastern Serbia, with 80 ha scatter and early copper smelting furnaces (c.

🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village

Tărtăria Tablets Site

Middle Neolithic (Vinča A3) · Vinča (Turdaș)

Vinča pit settlement at Tărtăria (c. 5300 BCE) on Mureș River, famous for three clay tablets with Vinča signs found in pit with burnt human bones, 26 figurines and shells, sparking proto-writing…

🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village

La Draga – Early Neolithic Lake Dwelling (Banyoles, Catalonia)

Early Neolithic, Cardial–Epicardial (5300 BCE) · Cardial Neolithic fisher-farmers (Iberian Early Neolithic)

5300 BCE Cardial pile dwelling on Lake Banyoles—earliest lake village in Mediterranean with bows and dairy.

🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient village

Kuhikugu — Western Plaza Cluster K9 at Seki Lake (Xingu West) — v2

Late Pre-Columbian (900 – 1650 CE) · Xinguano Arawak / Kuhikugu

Western Kuhikugu plaza K9 250×150 m at Seki Lake west — causeway 500 m ×12 m and reservoir 100 m under gallery forest; Xinguano.

🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village

Oishi Yayoi Site

Jomon Late c.3000 BCE → Yayoi Early–Middle 500 BCE–100 CE → Edo overburden · Jomon → Yayoi (Tokyo Hongō branch)

Tokyo's Yayoi name-bearer extended — Yayoi 2-chome Oishi precinct on Hongō (1884 Yagi, Yayoi type).

🇧🇷 Brazil · Lost city

Kuhikugu — Eastern Cluster K8 Seki Settlement (Upper Xingu)

Late Pre-Columbian (c.700 – 1600 CE) · Xinguano tradition (Kuikuro ancestors)

Upper Xingu plaza town 8 km east of classic Kuhikugu — ring ditch, 700 m causeway and terra preta, 14 ha, 900–1350 CE.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Boncuklu Höyük

Early Central Anatolian Aceramic/Early Ceramic Neolithic · Central Anatolian Neolithic (Konya Plain local)

PPN ancestor of Çatalhöyük — oval wattle-and-daub houses with bead-rich burials marking early sedentary foragers.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village

Wadi Faynan WF16

Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (c.11600–10200 cal BP) · PPNA (Natufian → PPNB transition)

PPNA megasite (c.11.6–10.2 ka, Structure O75 20 m amphitheatre, 40 pithouses) at Faynan oasis.

🇷🇴 Romania · Tell

Gumelniţa Tell

Late Chalcolithic (Karanovo VI–Gumelniţa) · Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI–Varna complex

Type-site of Gumelniţa culture (c.4700–3950 BCE, Late Chalcolithic), 4-m tell on Danube Borcea island dominating copper-trade axis: two-storey Tell houses with plastered benches, Varna-grade copper…

🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village

Mahasna

Predynastic Naqada to Early Dynastic to Old Kingdom · Naqada → Early Dynastic Egyptian

Predynastic to Old Kingdom village and cemetery cluster (c.4000–2686 BCE) behind Abydos, key to Abydos hinterland settlement pattern: massive Naqada II–III cemeteries (Mahasna cemetery, 400+ graves)…

🇨🇳 China · Ancient city

Western Henan Citadel B — Henan, Erlitou (54-48)

Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age

Western Henan Citadel B — Henan, Erlitou (54-48) at Henan, Erlitou, China is a Bronze Age (regional) ancient city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 800 CE for citadel and associated settlement.

🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient village

Gilgal I

Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600–9400 BCE) · Sultanian PPNA

PPNA Jordan Valley village with 13,000 figs proving earliest arboriculture before cereals.

🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient city

Upper Nara Ridge South — Nara, Asuka (54-12)

Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age

Upper Nara Ridge South — Nara, Asuka (54-12) at Nara, Asuka, Japan is a Iron Age (regional) ancient city of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 200 CE for ridge and associated settlement.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village

Wadi Fidan 4

Late PPNB to Early Pottery Neolithic (7000–6200 BCE) · Southern Levant PPNB → Wadi Rabah (PN)

Late PPNB–Wadi Rabah terrace village tracking Faynan aridity collapse at 7000 BCE.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Qaramel

Pre-Pottery Neolithic A to early PPNB · Levantine PPNA/PPNB (Qaramelian)

Pre-Pottery Neolithic tell (c.12,000–10,000 BP / 10th–8th millennium BCE) 25 km north of Aleppo on the Quweiq River, with five circular tower-sanctuaries (up to 7.5 m diameter) and cult structures…

🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city

Yampil

Late Chalcolithic Trypillia C1–C2 (3600–3300 BCE) Podolia Dniester · Cucuteni-Trypillia C1–C2 Podolia (Yampil variant, Usatovo contact)

Yampil (Yampol) — Trypillia C1–C2 settlement cluster (c.3600–3300 BCE, 15 ha, ~200 houses) on Dniester left bank at Yampil bend, Vinnytsia–Moldova border.

🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient village

Netiv Hagdud

Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9500–9000 BCE; Sultanien) · Sultanian PPNA (Levant)

PPNA type-village in lower Jordan Valley with oval pisé houses and wild barley economy.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Gre Fılla

PPNA to Early PPNB · Upper Tigris PPN (Göbekli sphere northern fringe)

Upper Tigris PPNA village with three T-pillar buildings and skull cult, salvage-saved from Ambar Dam.

Notable settlements

Barnhouse Stone Age Village

Beidha

Talaiot de Trepucó — Maó, Menorca

Tetitla Apartment Compound (Teotihuacan)

Paquimé (Casas Grandes)

Çatalhöyük

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201 places · page 1 of 9

Abu Gosh

Sai Island Pyramid & Temple Complex

Nevalı Çori

Machu Picchu Outlier Terrace

Kiln Workshop Complex North — Ganga Plain (Patna)

Oven Cluster West — Coastal Peru (Lima)

Belovode — Vinča Copper Settlement

Tărtăria Tablets Site

La Draga – Early Neolithic Lake Dwelling (Banyoles, Catalonia)

Kuhikugu — Western Plaza Cluster K9 at Seki Lake (Xingu West) — v2

Oishi Yayoi Site

Kuhikugu — Eastern Cluster K8 Seki Settlement (Upper Xingu)

Boncuklu Höyük

Wadi Faynan WF16

Gumelniţa Tell

Mahasna

Western Henan Citadel B — Henan, Erlitou (54-48)

Gilgal I

Upper Nara Ridge South — Nara, Asuka (54-12)

Wadi Fidan 4

Tell Qaramel

Yampil

Netiv Hagdud

Gre Fılla

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Notable settlements

Barnhouse Stone Age Village

Beidha

Talaiot de Trepucó — Maó, Menorca

Tetitla Apartment Compound (Teotihuacan)

Paquimé (Casas Grandes)

Çatalhöyük

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