🇮🇱 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 Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Mousa South Broch & Iron Age Village Extension (South Mousa Shore)
Middle to Late Iron Age (Atlantic Iron Age) · Shetland Atlantic Iron Age builders
South Mousa second broch and wheelhouse village 1.2 km south of famous Mousa Broch: prototype 500 BCE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Gritille Höyük
Ubaid–Uruk to Iron Age (4500–600 BCE) · Upper Euphrates Chalcolithic–Early Bronze
Ubaid–Uruk to Iron Age (4500–600 BCE) tell of Upper Euphrates Chalcolithic–Early Bronze in Adıyaman Province, Samsat Plain (c.4500 BCE).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Kodumanal
Megalithic Iron Age (500 BCE–100 CE) → Early Historic Sangam Chera 300 BCE–300 CE · Megalithic Tamil → Sangam Early Tamil (Early Historic South India)
Megalithic–Early Historic industrial village and cemetery (c.500 BCE–300 CE) on the Noyyal River near Erode — 40 ha settlement + 40 cairn-circle Megalithic burial ground with menhirs, excavated…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
La Quemada (Chicomostoc) — Chalchihuites Hilltop Fortress
Classic (Chalchihuites, 350–850 CE, Epiclásico) · Chalchihuites (Zacatecas) → Coyotlatelco contact
La Quemada (Chicomostoc) — Chalchihuites Hilltop Fortress is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Zacatecas State, Villanueva Municipality, Malpaso valley, Cerro La Quemada, Mexico — Hilltop…
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Khok Phanom Di
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…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Kuhikugu — Eastern Plaza Cluster K10 at Seki Lake East (Xingu East)
Late Pre-Columbian (800–1600 CE) · Upper Xingu / ancestral Kuikuro Arawak
Eastern plaza K10 of Kuhikugu cluster on Seki East — 12 ha plaza with ditch and 1.2 km causeway.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Tell
Shabarakh Usu (Bayanzag)
Pleistocene Djadochta Formation (75 Ma) → Neolithic (7000–3000 BCE) → Bronze Age 3000–1000 BCE → Slab Grave Iron Age · Gobi Neolithic microlithic → Afanasievo–Chemurchek Bronze (Gobi) → Slab Grave Iron Age nomadic
Gobi Flaming Cliffs (Bayanzag) — Neolithic pit camps to Chemurchek burials capping Djadochta dinosaur nests (Andrews 1922).
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Kolomiytsev Yar Trypillia Tract Settlement Cluster
Chalcolithic (c.4300–4000 BCE, Trypillia BII) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia BII, western)
Kolomiytsev Yar Trypillia Tract Settlement Cluster in Kyiv Oblast, Obukhiv Raion, Kolomiytsev Yar valley near Kopachiv, Ukraine is a Chalcolithic (c.4300–4000 BCE, Trypillia BII) Cucuteni-Trypillia…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Beaghmore-Ockan Bog Trackways (Tyrone, Sperrins)
Bronze Age to Early Iron Age · Sperrin Bronze Age (Beaghmore)
Blanket bog causey cluster (85 m asl, 54°22′48″N 06°57′00″W 54.38,-6.95) access routes to Beaghmore stone circles (Bronze Age 2000 BCE alignment seven) across Ockan Bog (sometimes transcribed…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ojiyana
Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic 3000–1500 BCE · Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic (Mewar)
Middle–Late Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic village (c.3000–1500 BCE) in Bhilwara district, Mewar Plain — 4 ha mound at Ojiyana, 30 km southwest of Bhilwara on the Banas tributary system, excavated 1999–2003…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Acre — Capixaba Ramal Geoglyphs Phase West (Western Acre Ramal)
Early to Late Pre-Columbian (400 BCE – 1000 CE) · Acre geoglyph culture / Arawak
Western Ramal triple geoglyph at Capixaba — 3× 120 m squares with 700 m avenue at –10.05S.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Upper Xingu Kayabi Geoglyph Complex (Pará)
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Xingu polyglot / Kayabi) · Upper Xingu archaeological tradition / Kayabi
Southern Amazon forest geoglyph province distinct from Acre-Urubamba: 14 circular and rectangular enclosures (120-320 m) on Xingu headwater interfluvia (260 m, 9°45′S 52°21′W), documented by Mendeley…
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Shangshan
Shangshan culture 9000–7000 BCE → Kuahuqiao (8500–7700) → Hemudu · Shangshan (Lower Yangzi earliest Neolithic, Pre-Yangshao)
Type-site for Shangshan culture (c.11000–9000 BP, 9000–7000 BCE) at Huangzhai near Pujiang, Zhejiang — earliest Neolithic in the Lower Yangzi (currently oldest pottery in Zhejiang), excavated 2001–06…
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Chengtoushan
Daxi (5500–3300) → Qujialing → Shijiahe 5500–2300 BCE · Daxi → Qujialing → Shijiahe (Middle Yangzi walled cities)
Earliest walled rice city in China (c.5500–3000 BCE) at Chengtoushan plateau on the Liyang Plain near Li County — 8 ha fortified town with 3 m rammed-earth wall 800 m diameter and outer moat,…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Gilund
Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic 3000–1700 BCE (Early/Mature/Late) · Ahar-Banas (Mewar Chalcolithic) → contact Harappan
Largest Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic settlement (c.3000–1700 BCE) on the Banas River floodplain in Rajsamand, Mewar — twin mounds (Modiya Magari, 14 ha and western mound 4 ha) excavated 1999–2005 by V.S.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Vinča–Belo Brdo – Neolithic Tell Mega-Settlement
Neolithic–Chalcolithic, Vinča–Tordos to Gradac phases · Vinča culture (Danubian Neolithic)
5700–4500 BCE Vinča tell—type site of Old Europe with early copper and 2,000 masks.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Homolovi I (Homolovi State Park — Sunset Mesa Pueblo)
Pueblo IV (Ancestral Puebloan post-Mesa Verde, 1285–1400 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Hopi ancestor — Homolovi Cluster)
Homolovi I (Homolovi State Park — Sunset Mesa Pueblo) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Arizona, Navajo County, Winslow–Little Colorado, Homolovi State Park, United States — Largest Homolovi…
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Ban Chiang Archaeological Site
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…
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Bagor
Mesolithic (7000–2800) → Chalcolithic (2800 BCE–500 BCE) · Mesolithic Mewar microlithic → Ahar-Chalcolithic (Mewar)
Type-site for Mewar Mesolithic (c.7000–500 BCE) on the Mahasati dune above the Kothari River west of Bhilwara — India's largest excavated Mesolithic habitation (1967–70 by V.N. Misra and L.S.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Koldihwa
Vindhyan Neolithic (7000–3500) → Chalcolithic (3500–2000 BCE) · Vindhyan Neolithic (Koldihwa–Mahagara) → Chalcolithic
Belan Valley Neolithic type-site (c.7000–2000 BCE) on the Belan River 80 km southeast of Prayagraj (Allahabad) — Koldihwa (with Mahagara adjacent) excavated 1973–76 by G.R. Sharma and J.M.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village
Derryoghil & Tin Tab Bog Trackways (Derryoghil–Derragh Bog, Co. Longford)
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (2750–2280 BCE) · Irish Neolithic–Early Bronze (Beaker transition, 2500 BCE)
700-m stacked bog road (2750 BCE brush under 2280 BCE oak plank) — only Neolithic→Bronze stacked reuse in Ireland.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village
Keenagh (Corlea 2) Bog Trackway (County Roscommon–Longford border)
Iron Age (Late Iron Age, La Tène D, 148 BCE) · Irish Iron Age (La Tène, Uisnech kingship)
Iron Age 1-km oak causeway (148 BCE) — Keenagh's in situ twin to Corlea 1, part of 5-trackway Shannon bog field.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Xinglongwa
Xinglongwa culture 6200–5400 BCE → Zhaobaogou → Hongshan · Xinglongwa (Liao River Neolithic, Proto-Mongolic?)
Type-site for Xinglongwa culture (c.6200–5400 BCE, 8200–7400 BP) on the Aohan hills near Chifeng, Inner Mongolia — earliest Neolithic on the Mongolian plateau, 120 pit-house village with central…