🇮🇱 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.
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🇺🇸 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.
🇪🇸 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.
🇯🇵 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).
🇷🇴 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.
🇯🇴 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.
🇹🇷 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.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Tetitla Apartment Compound (Teotihuacan)
Classic Teotihuacan (Tlamimilolpa) · Teotihuacano (multi-ethnic)
One of 2,000 apartment compounds that made Teotihuacan (100 BCE–550 CE, 200,000 inhabitants — largest city in Americas) a planned grid city.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Ancient city
Tells Stratified Sequence North
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Tells Stratified Sequence North in Thracian Plain, Bulgaria is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Charnel House Cemetery East — Coastal Plain (Tel Aviv)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Charnel House Cemetery East in Coastal Plain, Israel is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Gobero Cemetery Paleolake — Matmata (Gabes)
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Medieval
Gobero Cemetery Paleolake in Matmata, Tunisia is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Dobrovody
Chalcolithic Cucuteni-Trypillia B1–B2 (c.4100–3700 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Western Trypillia, Tomashivka group)
Dobrovody (Dobrovodi) — Cucuteni-Trypillia BI mega-site (c.4100–3700 BCE, 150–250 ha, 700+ houses, up to 16,200 estimated inhabitants per 2014 research) west of Dobrovody village, Cherkasy, on loess…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Sesebi Temple-Fortress (Akhenaten)
Amarna to post-Amarna New Kingdom to Napatan · Egyptian (Amarna) / Kushite
Akhenaten’s fortified Nubian temple town c.1350 BCE at Sesebi — walled 200×250 m with four temples and external Napatan mini-pyramids.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
ʿAin Ghazal
PPNB → PPNC → Yarmoukian · Levantine PPNB/Yarmoukian
Mega-village (7250–5000 BCE) covering 15 ha, one of the largest Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic sites in the Near East.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Maydanets
Chalcolithic Trypillia B2 (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Western Trypillia)
Maydanets (Maidanetske) — giant Cucuteni-Trypillia B2 mega-settlement (c.3800–3600 BCE, 200–260 ha, ~1,575–2,900 houses, 9,000–46,000 estimates) on Talyanka River, Cherkasy.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Western Henan Necropolis South — Henan, Erlitou (54-06)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Western Henan Necropolis South — Henan, Erlitou (54-06) at Henan, Erlitou, China is a Chalcolithic (regional) ancient city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Erbaba Höyük
Late Neolithic (Hacilar I equivalent) · Beyşehir-Hacilar transition
Late Neolithic lakeside tell (c.6400–6000 BCE, with Chalcolithic reuse c.5500 BCE) on Beyşehir Lake terrace, excavated 1969–71 by Bordaz & Alpes team and later re-studied by Steadman/Arbuckle.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient city
Little Nara Fortress West — Nara, Asuka (54-22)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Little Nara Fortress West — Nara, Asuka (54-22) at Nara, Asuka, Japan is a Chalcolithic (regional) ancient city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 800 BCE for fortress and associated settlement.