🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Yayahuala — Tula Grande Residential Zone
Epiclassic–Early Postclassic Tollan 900–1150 CE · Toltec (Tollan)
Tula elite barrio palace 50×40 m with temazcal and maguey ovens linked by causeway to Burned Palace.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
SunWatch Indian Village
Fort Ancient 1000–1750 CE, Mississippian-influenced Late Prehistoric · Fort Ancient (Central Algonquian, Fort Ancient tradition)
Reconstructed Fort Ancient circular village (3 acres) on Great Miami River terrace at Dayton: central plaza 42 m diameter ringed by post-mold houses, stockade with bastions, and reconstructed cedar…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Mehrgarh — Period II Communal Granary
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Mehrgarh — Period II Communal Granary in Balochistan, Kachi, Mehrgarh, Pakistan is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed t…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Merimde Beni Salama
Neolithic Merimde culture (4800–4300 BCE) · Lower Egyptian Neolithic (Merimde)
Merimde Beni Salama is Egypt's largest Neolithic village, 4800–4300 BCE Merimde culture, 44 ha mound with 1.5 m stratigraphy, oval houses 5×3 m wattle-and-daub, burial in settlement, lithics,…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Qasr Amra
Umayyad Caliphate (c.711–715 CE) · Umayyad Arab / Byzantine influence
Umayyad desert castle bathhouse (qasr) built by Caliph Walid I (705–715 CE) famous for extensive frescoes: vaulted audience hall with hunting scenes, musicians, six kings (Byzantine, Sasanian,…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
San José Mogote
Early–Middle Formative 1500–500 BCE (Rosario phase) · Zapotec (Mogote phase)
Earliest Zapotec urban precursor with Monument 3 captive blood glyph, earliest Oaxacan writing 600 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Betatakin Cliff Dwelling
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Betatakin Cliff Dwelling — buried ancestral tell/village at Arizona.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient village
Qasr Al-Haj
Medieval to Modern (12th c. CE–20th c.; peak 13th–19th c.) · Berber (Nafusi) / Islamic
Qasr Al-Haj (near Gharyan) is a circular Berber granary (aghadir/ qasr) 12th c. CE, 30 m diameter ring of 114 ghurfas (cells) four storeys high around central courtyard, built of rock and gypsum…
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Ancient village
Kantarodai
Iron Age to Early Historic (1000 BCE–300 CE) · Tamil megalithic to early Buddhist (Jaffna Dravidian)
Kantarodai is an Iron Age cemetery (1000 BCE–300 CE) north of Jaffna, a 2-ha field of 60 votive mini-stupas (1–2 m) over megalithic urn burials plus Tamil-Brahmi settlement (300 BCE).
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient village
Cozzo del Pantano — Early Iron Debris Field
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Cozzo del Pantano — Early Iron Debris Field in Sicily, Syracuse, Cozzo Pantano, Italy is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attrib…
🇲🇩 Moldova · Ancient village
Varvarovka (Varvarovca) Cucuteni-Trypillia Settlement
Chalcolithic (3800–3500 BCE, Cucuteni B) · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Terraced settlement on the Reut river, Cucuteni B / Trypillia BII (c.3800–3500 BCE), ca. 8 ha with dense house clusters and flint workshops. Excavated by T. Passek 1950s and V.
🇧🇪 Belgium · Ancient village
Spiennes Neolithic Flint Mines
Neolithic (4300–2300 BCE) · Michelsberg and Seine-Oise-Marne
Largest and earliest Neolithic flint mining complex in Europe, extending over 100 ha on the Campine chalk near Mons.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Majiabang
Neolithic Majiabang (7000–5800 BCE) · Majiabang culture (Taihu Lower Yangtze rice)
Majiabang is the type site of Majiabang culture (7000–5800 BCE) — earliest Lower Yangtze rice paddy village with pile-dwelling houses, jade, and Hemudu-type black pottery on the Taihu plain.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Shuangdun
Neolithic Shuangdun (7300–5600 BCE) · Shuangdun culture (Huai River painted pottery, carved symbols)
Shuangdun is Shuangdun culture's type site (7300–5600 BCE) on the Huai River — 10-ha village with stamped pottery with 600+ carved symbols (proto-writing, 7300 BCE).
🇨🇿 Czechia · Ancient village
Závist Celtic Oppidum
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Závist Celtic Oppidum in Central Bohemia, Czechia is a prehistoric fortified settlement of the Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500 BCE–500 CE).
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient village
Puerto Escondido
Early Formative to Terminal Classic 1600 BCE–900 CE, peak Early-Middle Formative 1400–400 BCE · Preclassic Maya-adjacent (Ulúa Valley Formative, Ocotillo/Playón ↔ Olmec-linked)
Early village CR-372 in Lower Ulúa Valley suburbs of San Pedro Sula with continuous occupation 1600 BCE–900 CE; yielded earliest cacao residue in Mesoamerica (1150 BCE) in pottery, Olmec-style…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Awatovi — First Franciscan Mission Ruin Hopi
Ancestral Pueblo 1200–1700 CE; Mission San Bernardo 1629–1680 Pueblo Revolt destroyed · Hopi / Spanish Franciscan mission
Awatovi excavated by Fewkes & Smithsonian 1935–39, Jeddito Yellow ware and mission destruction 1680.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Qaramel — Pre-Pottery Neolithic Tower
PPNA to Early PPNB (10900–9500 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic A / Qaramelinian
Qaramel excavated by Mazurowski 1999–, oldest towers in Syria, PPNA round houses with skull cult and lithics older than Jericho.
🇱🇻 Latvia · Ancient village
Embute Hillfort
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Embute Hillfort in Kurzeme, Latvia is a prehistoric fortified settlement of the Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500 BCE–500 CE).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Carn Euny Ancient Village and Fogou
Iron Age (500 BCE–400 CE) · Dumnonii
Carn Euny Ancient Village and Fogou in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (500 BCE–400 CE) ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Zuni Pueblo — Hawikuh Contact Village Coronado 1540
Zuni Ancestral to Contact (1300–1680; Coronado 1540 first European battle) · Zuni (Ashiw) / Spanish Contact Coronado
Hawikuh excavated by Hodge 1917–23, 1540 Coronado battle with Estevánico death, 1680 revolt burned.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Taos Pueblo — North House Adobe High-Rise Continuous Occupation
Tiwa Pueblo (1000–present; North House c.1450) · Tiwa Pueblo (Taos) continuously occupied
Taos Pueblo occupied 1000–, UNESCO 1992, 5-storey North House 1450, Taos Revolt 1680 mission destroyed.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tilki Tepe
Chalcolithic-EBA (c.5000-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes / Early Transcaucasian (Karaz-Pulur)
Tilki Tepe — buried chalcolithic-eba tell/village at Van Province.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site
Mississippian 1000–1350 CE · Mississippian (Wickliffe phase)
Eight-mound Mississippian town 1000–1350 CE.