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10 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (2000–1500 BCE) → Early Bronze (1500 BCE) brief at top · Khok Phanom Di (Coastal Neolithic → early Bronze, Central Thai)
Coastal Neolithic–Bronze Age shell midden and cemetery (c.2000–1500 BCE) near Bang Pakong estuary mangrove, 20 km from the Gulf — 5 ha mound 6 layers excavated 1984–85 by Charles Higham and Rachanie…
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age 3000 BCE–200 CE · Ban Chiang culture (Isan Neolithic–Bronze, Ban Kao related)
Neolithic–Iron Age moated village (c.3000 BCE–200 CE) at Ban Chiang, Isan, northeast Thailand — 30 ha UNESCO World Heritage (ID 359) excavated 1967–73 by Chester Gorman, Pisit Charoenwongsa and later…
🇹🇭 Thailand · Cemetery
Neolithic 3000 → Bronze 1300 BCE → Iron 500 BCE–200 CE · Isan Khorat — Non Nok Tha Bronze–Iron hill (Phu Wiang)
Non Nok Tha Khon Kaen — Neolithic to Iron Age cemetery mound (3000 BCE–200 CE, 45 burials) on Phi Wiang hill 55 km NW Khon Kaen, excavated 1966–68 by Bayard–Solheim (Univ.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Bronze Age 2000–900 BCE → Iron Age 900 BCE–200 CE · Ban Chiang — Khorat Bronze–Iron paddy culture (UNESCO 575)
Ban Chiang Udon Thani — Iron Age–Bronze Age paddy cemetery-mound (3000 BCE–200 CE, 6 ha) at Ban Chiang 50 km E Udon Thani on Khorat Plateau, UNESCO 575, excavated 1974–75 by C. Gorman–P.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age 2500 BCE–200 CE · Non Nok Tha culture (Isan Bronze Age, Ban Chiang contemporary)
Neolithic–Bronze Age mortuary mound (c.2500–200 BCE) at Non Nok Tha, Khon Kaen — 1 ha stratified mound with 250+ burials in four phases, excavated 1966–68 by Donn Bayard (U Otago) and Sood…
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Neolithic 1500–1000 → Bronze Age 1000–400 → Iron Age 400 BCE–200 CE · Isan Khorat Plateau (Neolithic → Bronze → Iron)
Non Nok Tha — Isan Neolithic–Iron Age cemetery village (1500 BCE–200 CE, 300 burials) 90 km west Khon Kaen, Phu Wiang district, excavated 1966–68 Bayard (Otago) and Solheim.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Neolithic 1750–1000 → Bronze Age 1000–400 → Iron Age 400 BCE–500 CE · Mun Valley Neolithic → Ban Chiang Bronze → Iron Age (Isan)
Ban Non Wat — 5000-year moated farming village (1750 BCE–500 CE, Neolithic→Iron Age) 50 km NE Nakhon Ratchasima, Mun floodplain, excavated 2002–12 Higham and Higham (Otago).
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Late Iron Age to Early Historic (c.400 BCE–200 CE) · Early Indian-influenced (Indian contact)」「West? actually Ban Don Ta Phet 400–0 BCE Indian contact
Iron Age cemetery with first South Asian beads across South China Sea (400 BCE–200 CE) — Indian bronze bowls at Kanchanaburi.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Neolithic (c.1500–1000 BCE, late)
Late Neolithic slope village (1500–1000 BCE) — forest-clearance pottery on Khao Wong fringe.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Late Pleistocene to Holocene (c.35000–10000 BP Hoabinhian) · Hoabinhian hunter-gatherers
Hoabinhian karst rockshelter (35,000–10,000 BP) — continuous pebble-tool sequence before Neolithic.
