Partially excavated ancient villages

🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Los Morteros — Tucson Basin Hohokam Village

Hohokam Colonial to Classic (950–1350 CE; peak 950–1200 CE) · Hohokam (Tucson Basin)

Hohokam platform precursor 950 CE — 600 bedrock mortars & ballcourt (Bayman).

🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient village

Nemrik 9

Protoneolithic (9800–8200 BCE) · Zarzian–PPN (Nemrikian)

Protoneolithic (9800–8200 BCE) Zarzian–PPN (Nemrikian) ancient village at Dohuk Governorate, Upper Tigris/Mosul Dam zone – ppn hamlet with stone sculpture and houses (dims Tell 0.8 ha, 8 PPN houses).

🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village

Ain Ghazal — Plaster Statue Cache East

Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic

Ain Ghazal — Plaster Statue Cache East in Amman Governorate, Ayn Ghazal, Jordan is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed t…

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Hacılar Höyük

Neolithic–Chalcolithic (7040–5400 BCE) · Hacılar culture (Lake District)

Neolithic–Chalcolithic (7040–5400 BCE) Hacılar culture (Lake District) tell at Burdur Province, Lake District – painted pottery type-site with burnt houses (dims Mound 150×120 m, 9 m Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic).

🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder

Wupatki National Monument

Pueblo II–III 1120–1250 CE (post-Sunset Crater) · Sinagua / Ancestral Puebloan (Hisatsinom) with Mogollon/Hohokam influences

100-room red-Moenkopi sandstone pueblo with tower-kiva and Hopi-style ballcourt, outlier of Sinagua-Hisatsinom frontier after Sunset Crater eruption (1085 CE) improved farming.

🇮🇳 India · Ancient village

Hunsgi — Acheulean Factory

Acheulean (700k–200k BP) · Acheulean

Hunsgi — Acheulean Factory in Karnataka, Hunsgi valley, India is a Acheulean (700k–200k BP) ancient village attributed to Acheulean culture.

🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Yellow Jacket Pueblo

Pueblo II–III 1050–1300 CE (Mesa Verde phase) · Ancestral Pueblo (Mogollon-Mesa Verde)

Largest Mesa Verde town: 600 rooms, 170 kivas, 22 m Great Kiva and Chaco-style great house.

🇨🇱 Chile · Rock art

Punta Lobos

Archaic to Late Intermediate 5000 BCE–1500 CE · Chango-Chinchorro maritime

Coastal Changos maritime promise rock art and 4 m shell mounds on Atacama sea cliff, 5000 BCE–1500 CE.

🇮🇳 India · Ancient village

Chechar Kutubpur — Bihar

Chalcolithic (2000–1000 BCE) · Chalcolithic

Chechar Kutubpur — Bihar in Bihar, Vaishali, India is a Chalcolithic (2000–1000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Chalcolithic culture.

🇮🇳 India · Tell

Chirand — Bihar Neolithic

Neolithic-Chalcolithic (2500–1400 BCE) · Chirand culture

Chirand — Bihar Neolithic in Bihar, Saran, India is a Neolithic-Chalcolithic (2500–1400 BCE) tell attributed to Chirand culture culture.

🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Las Capas — Early Hohokam Village (Tucson Basin)

Early Agricultural Period–Early Ceramic (1200 BCE–500 CE; peak 1000–500 BCE) · Early Agricultural / Cienega phase (pre-Hohokam)

Early Agricultural metropolis 1000 BCE — 400 pithouses & 1 km canal before Hohokam.

🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village

Barrow Ancient Village

Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca

Barrow Ancient Village in Quang Nam, Vietnam is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) ancient village attributed to Nazca culture.

🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum

Pueblo II–III 850–1220 CE · Ancestral Pueblo (Virgin–Kayenta blend)

Pueblo II–III 100-room complex with restored 12 m kiva and largest pottery shard repository in Southwest.

🇲🇲 Myanmar · Ancient village

Village of Abbey Narrow

Mississippian (800–1600 CE) · Mississippian

Village of Abbey Narrow in Magway Region, Myanmar is a Mississippian (800–1600 CE) ancient village attributed to Mississippian culture.

🇮🇳 India · Ancient village

Shikarpur — Kutch

Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan

Shikarpur — Kutch in Gujarat, Kutch, India is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) ancient village attributed to Harappan culture.

🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village

Ban Don Ta Phet

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.

🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient village

Highfield-Narrow Wadi Ancient Village

Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche

Highfield-Narrow Wadi Ancient Village in Fezzan, Libya is a Moche (100–800 CE) ancient village attributed to Moche culture.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Halula South — Euphrates Pre-Pottery Annex

PPNA to PPNB (7800–5400 BCE; main 7600–6000 BCE) · PPNB Mureybetian → PPNB (Euphrates)

PPNB mega-village 7600 BCE — communal plastered houses & skull cult (Molist).

🇷🇴 Romania · Tell

Trușești Cucuteni Settlement on the Jijia

Precucuteni to Horodiștea, peak Cucuteni A–B (4800–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia

One of Moldova's largest Cucuteni tells — Țuguieta mound 9 m stratigraphy (Precucuteni III to Cucuteni B1, Horodiștea) at Trușești, excavated by M. Petrescu-Dîmbovița 1951–61.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell

Hotnitsa North Tell — Veliko Tarnovo Gumelniţa

Late Chalcolithic Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI–Kodžadermen (4600–4300 BCE) · Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen–Karanovo VI

Chalcolithic burned village 4600 BCE — 407 gold items neighbouring mound (Chohadzhiev).

🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village

Goshono Jomon Site

Late Jomon 2500–1200 BCE · Jomon Late

Late Jomon pit-dwelling settlement (2500–1200 BCE) on Mabechi River plateau, UNESCO 2021 component 1632-010, with 20 pit-houses, 800+ pit graves, burnt mound middens and 4 m earthwork stone pavements…

🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city