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🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Early Bronze Phung Nguyen 2000–1500 BCE · Phung Nguyen (Red River Early Bronze)
Red River First Bronze type Phùng Nguyên (2000–1500 BCE) — nephrite jue and shouldered adze village in Phú Thọ.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient village
Terminal Natufian / Khiamian to PPNA (12,200–10,500 BCE) · North Mesopotamian PPNA (Proto-Neolithic piedmont)
North Iraq PPNA village with radial spoke houses and pillar cult building foreshadowing Göbekli.
🇬🇧 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.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
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
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
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
Eneolithic Precucuteni → Cucuteni A (5100–4500 BCE) Western · Precucuteni–Cucuteni A (Western Cucuteni-Trypillia earliest)
Polivaniv Yar III (Polivanov Yar) — Precucuteni → Cucuteni A stratified tell (c.5100–4500 BCE, 2 ha, 6 horizons) on Dniester cape at Khotyn, Chernivtsi, Bessarabia border.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Late Chalcolithic Trypillia C1 (3800–3500 BCE) Southern Bug · Cucuteni-Trypillia C1 (Varvarovka variant, Usatovo contact)
Varvarovka (Varvarovca) — cluster of Cucuteni-Trypillia C1 settlements Varvarovka VIII and XV (c.3800–3500 BCE, 5–10 ha each) on Southern Bug right bank at Varvarovka village, Mykolaiv NW suburb, Bug…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pottery Neolithic to Early Bronze (6000–3000 BCE; peak LCh–Uruk 4500–3100 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic north Mesopotamian → Uruk fringe
Upper Tigris concentric Chalcolithic complex with Uruk Bevelled Rim contact horizon.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (Karanovo → Gumelnița–Varna) · Boian → Gumelnița–Karanovo VI–Varna
Fortified Chalcolithic tell (c.4500–4000 BCE, Gumelnița-Karanovo VI–Varna complex, + Early Neolithic base c.6000 BCE) near Hotnitsa waterfall (Kaya Bunar cascade 30 m) on Yantra terrace.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Early to Late Neolithic (c.3600–2600 BCE) · Early Neolithic → Grooved Ware Orcadian Neolithic
Wideford Hill settlement with earliest Orkney timber houses (3600 BCE) and later stone village bridging Early–Late Neolithic.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
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.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Early Natufian (14,500–13,000 BP) · Early Natufian (Levant)
Jordan Valley Early Natufian base camp with slab floors and dentalium burial arrays.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Neolithic–Late Chalcolithic (6000–3200 BCE) · Central Anatolian (Cappadocian) Neolithic–Chalcolithic
Bor Plateau Neolithic village with painted floors, earliest copper and plastered skulls.
🇮🇱 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.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Early Natufian to MPPNB (14,600–9000 BP) · Natufian → PPNA → PPNB (Levantine Badia)
Harra playa Natufian village that produced world's earliest bread (14,400 BP).
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Middle to Late Chalcolithic (Petreşti A-B) · Petreşti (Vinča → Gumelniţa contemporary Transylvanian)
Type-site of Petreşti painted ware culture (c.5000–3500 BCE, Middle to Late Chalcolithic) — Transylvania's Late Neolithic polychrome (red-white-black geometric) rivalling Cucuteni, on Sebeș River…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A–B to Pottery Neolithic (9300–5500 BCE) · Upper Tigris PPN (Northern Fertile Crescent)
PPNA–PPNB lakeside village at Tigris–Botan confluence documenting crop domestication pathway.
🇮🇸 Iceland · Settlement
Renaissance cartography (1558 – 1693 official) · Venetian–Flemish cartographic
Large rectangular phantom south of Iceland on Zeno 1558 map — mapped for a century by Mercator then erased as Faroes misrender.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A–B · Taş Tepeler / Upper Mesopotamian PPN
Taş Tepeler PPN sanctuary with narrative leopard-human-phallus reliefs matching Karahan Tepe phallic imagery.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
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.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Pyramid
Early Horizon to Early Intermediate (Late Formative) · Wankarani (highland Altiplano)
Altiplano tell-pyramid at Wankarani — 80×60 m artificial village mound 8 m high c.1200–270 BCE at 3950 m, highest Andean mound village before Tiwanaku.
