🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chimney Rock Great House Pueblo
Pueblo II (Chacoan, 925–1125 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Chacoan)
Northernmost Chacoan great house (925–1125 CE) aligned to 18.6-year lunar standstill between twin spires, Colorado.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Boncuklu Höyük
Early Central Anatolian Aceramic/Early Ceramic Neolithic · Central Anatolian Neolithic (Konya Plain local)
PPN ancestor of Çatalhöyük — oval wattle-and-daub houses with bead-rich burials marking early sedentary foragers.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Mureybet (Tell Mureybit)
Natufian to PPNB (12,200–8000 BCE; Phase IA–IVB) · Natufian → Khiamian (Mureybatian) → PPNA → PPNB
Submerged Euphrates tell bridging Natufian to PPNB with early domestic einkorn and lion figurine.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tepe Giyan (Tappeh Giyan)
Chalcolithic to Iron Age (5000–1000 BCE; peak Giyan IV 2000–1500 BCE) · Central Zagros Chalcolithic → Bronze Age Luristan → Iron I Luristan bronzes
Zagros valley tell with Giyan I–V paint sequence and 120-grave Luristan bronze cemetery.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Barcın Höyük
Late Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic (Fikirtepe) · Marmara Neolithic (Fikirtepe)
Marmara type-site (c.6600–6000 BCE, Fikirtepe) bridging Anatolia and Balkan Neolithisation south of Lake İznik.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Deir el-Medina Workmen Village Thebes
New Kingdom · 18th-20th Dynasty Egyptian
Deir el-Medina Workmen Village Thebes at Thebes, Deir el-Medina, Egypt is a New Kingdom ancient village of the 18th-20th Dynasty Egyptian tradition, built c.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Gault Site
Pre-Clovis to Clovis (16,000–12,700 BCE) · Pre-Clovis (Gault Assemblage) → Clovis
Pre-Clovis workshop (16,000 BCE) — 600k artifacts and engraved stones below Clovis at Buttermilk Creek, Texas.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tilbeşar (Tell Tilbeshar)
Late Chalcolithic through Byzantine; EBA III–MBA II, Hittite, Neo-Hittite, Assyrian (Iron II) · Euphrates–Islahiye EBA → Neo-Hittite Luwian → Neo-Assyrian provincial
56-m Neo-Assyrian provincial tell (Azâ) with EBA–Iron II fortified town and moat between Sajur and Euphrates.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Sarai Khola
Neolithic Sarai Khola I (4000–3500) → Kot Dijian II (3000–2600 BCE) · Sarai Khola / Kot Diji (Taxila Neolithic)
Neolithic–Early Harappan village and cemetery (c.4000–2500 BCE) in Taxila Valley, Punjab — type-site for Sarai Khola culture (Period I Neolithic with ground stone axes, red-burnished ware; Period II…
🇷🇺 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).
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Tell Abu Hureyra Euphrates
Natufian to Neolithic · Epi-Palaeolithic / Neolithic
Tell Abu Hureyra Euphrates at Euphrates, Raqqa, Syria is a Natufian to Neolithic ancient village of the Epi-Palaeolithic / Neolithic tradition, built c.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Mozan (Urkesh) Satellite Mound
Late Chalcolithic to Mitanni (4000 BCE–1300 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic → Ninevite V → Hurrian Akkadian → Mittani (Hurrian Urkesh)
Tell Mozan (Urkesh) Satellite Mound is the 6.2-ha southern suburb 800 m south of Tell Mozan — the Hurrian capital Urkesh, city of Kumarbi at the Taurus piedmont.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Maheshwar (Mahishmati)
Maheshwar I Chalcolithic 1400–600 BCE → II Early Historic 600 BCE–400 CE → IV Holkar 1760 CE · Maheshwar Chalcolithic → Satavahana → Holkar Maratha
Historic Mahishmati–Maheshwar city on Narmada (1400 BCE–1760 CE) — Chalcolithic below Holkar fort and Maheshwari textile loom.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell Arqa (Arqa)
Neolithic → EB → MB → LBA Amarna → Iron → Persian → Crusader (7000 BCE–1300 CE) · Levantine (Amorite → Egyptian/Hittite → Phoenician → Crusader)
Akkar plain tell-town (Neolithic–Crusader) — EB rampart, Amarna Irqata, Phoenician and Crusader castle on 30 ha.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Kellis Village Dakhla Oasis
Roman to Late Antique · Roman Egyptian / Kellis
Kellis Village Dakhla Oasis at Western Desert, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt is a Roman to Late Antique ancient village of the Roman Egyptian / Kellis tradition, built c.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Navdatoli Narmada Settlement
Chalcolithic Malwa 1600–1300 BCE · Malwa Chalcolithic Narmada facies — Navdatoli type-site
Navdatoli Narmada Settlement — Malwa Chalcolithic classic site (1600–1300 BCE) on Narmada opposite Maheshwar, excavated 1952–57 by Sankalia–Subbarao (Deccan College–MSU).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Sacred Rajasthan Temple South — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-08)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Sacred Rajasthan Temple South — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-08) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Chalcolithic (regional) ancient village of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient village
Tepe Yahya Steatite Workshop Kerman
Chalcolithic to Bronze · Yahya period / Elamite
Tepe Yahya Steatite Workshop Kerman at Kerman, Tepe Yahya, Iran is a Chalcolithic to Bronze ancient village of the Yahya period / Elamite tradition, built c.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Western Rajasthan Enclosure II — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-36)
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Western Rajasthan Enclosure II — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-36) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Neolithic (regional) ancient village of the Neolithic tradition, built c.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient village
Akjoujt (Agueijit)
Chalcolithic to Early Iron Age (1800–500 BCE) · Pre-Mauritanian / early Berber / unknown Saharan smiths
West Africa's earliest copper-mining landscape Akjoujt — 1,000 tons slag from 1500 BCE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Deir el-Ballas
Second Intermediate to New Kingdom (17th–18th Dynasty, 1580–1320 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Theban)
Deir el-Ballas is a New Kingdom palace–rampart town opposite Coptos on west bank 2 km desert edge, built early 17th Dynasty (c. 1580 BCE) as military palace for Sekhemre–Wadjitaw?
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Gusir Höyük
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A–B to Pottery Neolithic (9300–5500 BCE) · Upper Tigris PPN (Northern Fertile Crescent)
PPNA–PPNB lakeside village at Tigris–Botan confluence documenting crop domestication pathway.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Küllüoba Höyük South Extension
Early Bronze Age (3200–1950 BCE) · West Anatolian Early Bronze → Hittite scatter
Küllüoba Höyük South Extension exposes the EBA II–III domestic quarter 80 m south of the central burnt compound (Level II).
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Futatsumori Shell Midden
Early to Middle Jomon 4500–2500 BCE (Jomon 2–4) · Early–Middle Jomon (Tōhoku coastal)
Early–Middle Jomon coastal shell midden and settlement (c.4500–2500 BCE) at Shichinohe on the Lake Ogawara plain — massive shell mound 120×80 m (Late Jomon layers 3 m thick) with 40+ pit dwellings,…