Excavated ancient villages

🇳🇴 Norway · Tumulus

Gokstad Ship Burial – Sandefjord, Vestfold

Viking Age (late) · Viking Norse (Vestfold chieftaincy)

23.3-m Viking longship (c.900 CE) under 44-m mound — chieftain burial with 64 shields, Sindri blue clay.

🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient village

Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier

Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes

Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier in Yerevan, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kura-Araxes.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Arbid North (Khabur)

Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → EJ II–III → Akkadian → Mitanni · Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → EJ II–III → Akkadian → Mitanni

Tell Arbid in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur triangle near Amuda, Syria is a Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → EJ II–III → Akkadian → Mitanni settlement attributed to Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → EJ II–III → Akkadian…

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell

Yunatsite Tell

Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) · Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE)

Yunatsite Tell in Pazardzhik Province, Yunatsite village, Bulgaria is a Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) settlement attributed to Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) culture.

🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient village

Wittmoor Bog Trackways I & II – Hamburg (Duvenstedter Brook)

Roman Iron Age to Migration Period · Saxon / Elbe-Germanic

Two Iron Age–Migration plank roads (330 CE / 500 CE) — 500 & 600 m bog causeways north of Hamburg.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Tell Abada

Samarra through Ubaid 3 (c.5500–4100 BCE); Samarra, Hajji Muhammad, Ubaid 3 · Samarra (Choga Mami) → Hajji Muhammad → Ubaid 3 Hamrin facies

Samarra–Ubaid transition village (c.5500–4100 BCE) with tripartite houses and Iran–south assimilation — Hamrin Samarra outpost.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Banat White Monument South

Early Bronze (3100–2300 BCE) · EB Syrian (Early Dynastic contemporary) → Mortuary complex

Tell Banat White Monument South is the southern suburb below the White Monument — a 20-m-high stepped earthen mortuary mound (100 m diam) south of Tell Banat cluster on the Euphrates.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell

Ovcharovo Tell North Mound

Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic (5000–4000 BCE) · Boian → Polyanitsa → Gumelnița (KGK VI)

Ovcharovo Tell North Mound is the northern tell of the Ovcharovo complex on the Ludogorie plateau — one of Todorova's Polyanitsa–Gumelnița tells documenting Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic nucleation…

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Mezraa-Teleilat

PPNA through Ubaid (c.9600–5500 BCE); PPNA, PPNB, Halaf, Ubaid · Upper Euphrates Neolithic (Mezraa phase) → Halaf → Ubaid

Neolithic–Halaf Euphrates tell (c.9600–5500 BCE) with PPNA round huts to Halaf painted pottery — Euphrates Neolithic type-site.

🇮🇳 India · Ancient village

Chirand Gangetic Settlement

Neolithic 2500–1500 → Chalcolithic 1500–600 BCE → NBPW 600 BCE · Mid-Gangetic Neolithic–Chalcolithic — Chirand facies

Chirand Gangetic Settlement — Neolithic–Chalcolithic–NBPW stratified mega-mound (2500 BCE–600 BCE) on Ghaghara–Gandak–Ganges triple confluence 14 km east Chhapra, excavated 1960–71 and 2004 by B.N.

🇬🇷 Greece · Tell

Poliochni Lemnos Bronze Age Village

Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (3200–1700 BCE) · Troy I–II contemporary → Aegean EBA (Poliochni culture)

Poliochni Lemnos Bronze Age Village is the fortified EBA town on Lemnos — the Aegean's earliest urban nucleus (Poliochni Azzurro–Rosso–Giallo–Verde–Rosa sequence, 3200–1700 BCE) contemporary with…

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Başur Höyük

Late Chalcolithic (LC4-5) pre-Uruk to Jemdet Nasr · Upper Tigris LC culture (Uruk-extended / local transcaucasian)

Siirt ‘royal’ chalcolithic cemetery (3500–3000 BCE) with retainer burials — copper, lapis and earliest gaming set at Uruk fringe, Upper Tigris inequality origin.

🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient village

Hajji Firuz Tepe

Late Neolithic–Late Chalcolithic (5900–4000 BCE; wine horizon 5400 BCE) · Hajji Firuz / Dalma (Urmia basin Chalcolithic)

Solduz Valley Chalcolithic village with world's earliest wine jars (5400 BCE tartaric acid).

🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Tell el-Ueili (Al-Ueili)

Ubaid 0 through Ubaid I (c.6500–5500 BCE); late Samarra–Hajji Muhammad horizon · Samarra–Ubaid 0 (Oueili phase) → Ubaid 1 (Hajji Muhammad) southern Mesopotamian

Ubaid 0 (c.6500–5500 BCE) earliest village in southern Mesopotamia predating Eridu — 11 m sounding with buttressed temple (Huot).

🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell

Tell es-Sa‘idiyeh

EB through Persian; LB-Iron cemetery peak · Canaanite → Egyptian residency (LB) → Philistine/Sea Peoples → Iron Ammonite

Jordan Valley cemetery tell — 500-grave LB–Iron cemetery with Egyptian anthropoid coffins, Philistine Bichrome and Jerusalem-frame burials, British Museum 1985–2013.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Norsuntepe

Chalcolithic–Iron Age (c.4000–800 BCE) · Ubaid → Early Transcaucasian → Hurrian → Hittite → Urartian hinterland

Keban rescue tell (Ubaid–Iron Age, 35 m high, EBA palace) now submerged under Lake Keban.

🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village

Tell Halula Euphrates Neolithic

PPNB to Pottery Neolithic · Middle Euphrates PPNB

Tell Halula Euphrates Neolithic at Middle Euphrates, Aleppo, Syria is a PPNB to Pottery Neolithic ancient village of the Middle Euphrates PPNB tradition, built c.

🇦🇷 Argentina · Rock art

Inca Cueva (Jujuy) – Quebrada Painted Caves

Paleo-Indian – Inca (c.10,620 BP – 1532 CE) · South Andean hunter-gatherer → Humahuaca → Inca (Coyas)

High puna painted cave system (10,620 BP – Inca 1450) in Humahuaca gorge: 6 caves (Inca Cueva 1,4,7) at 3680 m with stratified sequence: Fell-type projectile points 10.6k, early paintings of…

🇯🇴 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.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Ulucak Hoyuk Izmir Aegean Neolithic

Early Neolithic · Aegean Neolithic

Ulucak Hoyuk Izmir Aegean Neolithic at Izmir, Kemalpaşa, Turkey is a Early Neolithic ancient village of the Aegean Neolithic tradition, built c. 6400 BCE for westernmost aegean neolithic tell.

🇮🇱 Israel · Cave

Nahal Oren Cave Terrace Carmel

Natufian to PPN · Mount Carmel Natufian

Nahal Oren Cave Terrace Carmel at Mount Carmel, Israel is a Natufian to PPN cave of the Mount Carmel Natufian tradition, built c. 13000 BCE for cave and terrace natufian burials ppna village.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell