🇮🇱 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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🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient village
Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou
Almoravid to modern (11th c–20th c; present fabric 17th–19th c) · Berber (Haratine) / Almoravid / Saadi
Fortified earthen ksar on Trans-Saharan caravan road with pisé towers, agadir granary and geometric clay façades.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Hemudu Archaeological Site
Hemudu culture 5500–3300 BCE · Hemudu (Hangzhou Bay maritime rice farmers)
Waterlogged neolithic pile-dwelling settlement (5500–3300 BCE) on Yao River coastal plain, type-site of Hemudu culture famous for earliest Chinese rice cultivation (paddy with wooden plough),…
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Liangzhu Fanshan Altar Jade Cong Hoard
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Liangzhu Fanshan Altar Jade Cong Hoard in Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Godin Tepe
Late Chalcolithic to Iron Age II (c.5000–500 BCE; peak Uruk interlude and Median 750–550) · Ubaid-derived Zagros → Uruk colonial (Susa) → Kura-Araxes (Transcaucasian) → Early Transcaucasian → Iron Age Median
Zagros road-stop tell of Uruk traders, Kura-Araxes migrants, Median hall and earliest chemically attested wine.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient village
Llactapata (Choquequirao Satellite)
Late Horizon 1450–1536 CE · Inca
Choquequirao solar outpost: doorway aligns solstice sunrise onto Choquequirao usnu 5 km across canyon.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Mesa Verde Cliff Palace Tower House
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Mesa Verde Cliff Palace Tower House in Colorado, Mesa Verde, United States is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Menteşe Höyük
Neolithic (6400–6000 BCE, Fikirtepe) · Marmara Neolithic
Neolithic (6400–6000 BCE, Fikirtepe) Marmara Neolithic tell at Bursa Province, Iznik Basin – fikirtepe hamlet on former lake terrace (dims Mound 120 m diam, 4 m Fikirtepe deposits).
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Jerf el Ahmar — Early Neolithic Village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9500–9000 BCE) · Mureybet PPNA with communal buildings 130 m²
Jerf el Ahmar — Early Neolithic Village in Raďďa Governorate, Syria is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9500–9000 BCE) ancient-village attributed to Mureybet PPNA with communal buildings 130 m².
🇹🇭 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…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Boxgrove Palaeolithic Site – Eartham Pit
Lower Palaeolithic, MIS 13 interglacial (Boxgrove interglacial = Cromerian-ish) · Homo heidelbergensis hunter-scavengers
500,000-year Homo heidelbergensis butchery floor with refitted Acheulean axes and tibia.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient village
Dhar Tichitt
Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age transition (1800–300 BCE) Pre-Ghana · Soninke ancestors / Tichitt Culture (agropastoralists)
250 km cuesta with 200+ Neolithic villages (1800 BCE) and earliest domesticated pearl millet 1900 BCE – West Africa's first sedentism.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Shimoyakebe
Late Jomon 3000–500 BCE → Yayoi 400 BCE–300 CE (paddy) · Jomon → Yayoi (Kanto lowland)
Waterlogged Yayoi lowland at Shimoyakebe — paddy wooden tools and chestnut pits in peat (3000 BCE–300 CE).
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Kamegaoka Stone Age Site
Final Jomon to Early Yayoi 1000–300 BCE · Kamegaoka culture (Final Jomon–Yayoi transition, Tsugaru)
Final Jomon–Early Yayoi ritual settlement (c.1000–300 BCE) on Kamegaoka plateau at Tsugaru City — 4 ha with 40 pit dwellings, ritual clay figurine (shakōki-dogū Goggle-eyed) concentration (over 200…
🇷🇺 Russia · Ancient village
Sintashta
Middle Bronze Age Sintashta (2100–1800 BCE) · Sintashta (Indo-Iranian, Andronovo predecessor)
Fortified Bronze Age proto-town (c.2100–1800 BCE, Sintashta culture, late Middle Bronze) — type-site for Sintashta–Petrovka–Arkaim 'Country of Towns' (20 fortified settlements).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Naqada (Nubt / Ombos)
Predynastic (Naqada I Amratian to III Protodynastic) · Naqada (Upper Egyptian protodynastic)
Type-site of Predynastic Upper Egypt — Naqada I–III cultures (c.4000–3000 BCE) that unified Egypt: eponymous cemeteries N7000+ graves at Naqada, Ballas, Nubt town (gold-worker's town of Seth).
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Korekawa Site
Middle to Late Jomon 3500–1700 BCE · Middle–Late Jomon (Hachinohe region)
Middle–Late Jomon lacquer production village (c.3500–1700 BCE) on the Nii River terrace at Hachinohe, Aomori — 3 ha with 80+ pit dwellings, large midden, and lacquer-ware workshop that produced 400+…
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Chōshichiyachi Shell Midden
Middle to Late Jomon 3500–1700 BCE · Middle–Late Jomon (Hachinohe wetland)
Middle–Late Jomon wetland shell midden (c.3500–1700 BCE) adjacent to Korekawa at Chōshichiyachi, Hachinohe — 2 ha midden (Corbicula and yamato shijimi) 3 m thick with 20+ pit dwellings and…
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
Basketmaker II–Pueblo III 1500 BCE–1300 CE (peak 1000–1300) · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi, Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Largest archaeological landscape in US implying 30,000 people: 176,000-acre (71,200 ha) monument with 6,355 recorded sites – villages, cliff dwellings, kivas, towers and shrines from Basketmaker to…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Çakmaktepe
PPNA–PPNB (Taş Tepeler) · Taş Tepeler PPN foragers (Göbekli–Karahan sphere)
Taş Tepeler ridge PPNA enclave (9300–8500 BCE) with T-pillar in round enclosure and terrazzo hamlet — 9th Stone Hill on Karahan ridge.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Banpo Archaeological Site
Yangshao Early–Middle 5000–3000 BCE · Yangshao (Banpo phase) / Yellow River millet farmers
Yangshao culture matriarchal agricultural village (4800–4300 BCE) on Chan River terrace east of Xi'an, 50,000 m² with preserved moat (deepest 6 m), 45 semi-subterranean pit-houses, 6 pottery kilns,…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Porthgwarra Fogou — St Levan
Iron Age · Dumnonii
Porthgwarra Fogou — St Levan in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii. Small coastal fogou with corbelled chamber near Logan Rock headland.
🇨🇳 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…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Chalcatzingo
Formative Olmec (c.1500–500 BCE); Early–Middle Formative 1500–700 BCE (Olmec apogee 900–500 BCE), Late Formative 500–100 BCE, Epiclassic 500–900 CE · Olmec (Gulf Coast style) → Highland central Mexican Formative (Tlatilco–Olmec) → Late Formative Morelos
Olmec Highland hill-carved ceremonial terraces (c.1500–500 BCE) with 9 Olmec relief panels outside Gulf heartland (Grove).