🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Cott Valley Hut Settlement — St Just
Iron Age · Dumnonii
Cott Valley Hut Settlement — St Just in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age · Dumnonii
Cott Valley Hut Settlement — St Just in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chacoan (950–1140 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan Chacoan
Kin Bineola excavated by Vivian 1960s, Chaco road to south Bonito via South Gap.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Bronze Age · Cornish Bronze Age
Godrevy Headland Hut Circles in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age ancient-village attributed to Cornish Bronze Age.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Sinagua (1125–1400 CE) Hohokam-Sinagua blend · Sinagua
Tuzigoot excavated by Caywood & Spicer 1933–34, hill pueblo over marsh.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Hamangia / Varna
Chalcolithic fortified salt-production centre (c. 5500–4200 BCE), Europe's oldest salt works and fortified settlement, with massive stone walls 3 m thick, brine evaporation installations and tumulus…
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Late Neolithic · Vinča
Eponymous tell of Vinča culture (c. 5700–4500 BCE) on Danube bank, 10 m high stratified mound with 9 m cultural deposit, pit houses, kilns and famous Vinča figurines, script-like signs and early…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo I–III (600–1300 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi)
Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings (600–1300 CE) with 600 sites including Cliff Palace (150 rooms, 23 kivas) under sandstone alcoves, transitioning from pithouses to masonry pueblos before…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Mesolithic to Harappan (7000–1900 BCE) · Mesolithic to Harappan (Sindh lithic tradition)
Rohri Hills is a 1200×850 m chert quarry complex (7000 BCE–2000 BCE) atop the Sukkur limestone plateau, 40 ha of Harappan blade mines with 200+ pits (6 m deep) and debitage cones (10 m high)…
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Chad Basin Late Stone Age · Gajiganna culture
Urn-field mound complex defining Gajiganna culture bridging Saharan and sub-Saharan pastoralism before Kanem.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Kozareva Mogila — buried prehistoric tell/village at Burgas Province.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Koprivec Tell — buried prehistoric tell/village at Ruse Province.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Căscioarele-Ostrovul Tell — buried prehistoric tell/village at Călărași County.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Grek Amele — buried prehistoric tell/village at Diyarbakır Province.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age 1200 BCE - 300 BCE · Late Bronze to Iron Age Hebridean
1200 BCE - 300 BCE nucleated roundhouse village (12 houses) at Cladh Hallan, South Uist with composite peat-preserved mummies (1500 BCE).
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pueblo III (Sinagua-Ancestral Puebloan, 1100–1250 CE) · Sinagua–Ancestral Puebloan (Cohonina/Sinagua with Ancestral Puebloan)
Wupatki Pueblo (Wupatki National Monument — Sinagua Great House) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Arizona, Coconino County, Flagstaff–Little Colorado, Wupatki Basin, Sunset Crater vicinity,…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic – Early Chalcolithic (6500–5000 BCE) · Cappadocian Late Neolithic
Late Neolithic – Early Chalcolithic (6500–5000 BCE) tell of Cappadocian Late Neolithic in Nevşehir Province, Cappadocia (c.6500 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (3500–3000 BCE) · Proto-Elamite / Late Uruk
Late Chalcolithic (3500–3000 BCE) tell of Proto-Elamite / Late Uruk in Tehran Province, Rey Plain (c.3400 BCE).
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Late Neolithic through Eneolithic (Boian → Gumelnița, 5000–3900 BCE) · Boian → Gumelnița (Kodžadermen-Karanovo VI) Eneolithic
Sultana-Malu Roșu (Sultana Tell and Eneolithic Flat Necropolis) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Călărași County, Mânăstirea Commune, Mostiștea Lake terrace, Danube plain, Romania —…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pueblo II–III (Chacoan outlier 1110–1125, Mesa Verde 1150–1275) · Ancestral Puebloan (Chacoan outlier → Mesa Verde)
Aztec West Ruin (Aztec Ruins National Monument — West House) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in New Mexico, San Juan County, Animas River, Aztec town, North San Juan basin, United States —…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B through Late Bronze (7550–1200 BCE) four mounds · PPNB → Pottery Neolithic → Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → Middle Assyrian
Tell Sabi Abyad (Balikh Valley Neolithic Mound Cluster) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Raqqa Governorate, Balikh River valley, Tell Abyad District, Syria — Four-mound Neolithic village…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic – Early Bronze (4000–3000 BCE) · Elazığ–Murat Chalcolithic
Late Chalcolithic – Early Bronze (4000–3000 BCE) tell of Elazığ–Murat Chalcolithic in Elazığ Province, Keban Reservoir (c.4000 BCE).
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Tell
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).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ninevite 5 (3200–3000 BCE) · Ninevite 5 (Uruk–ED)
Ninevite 5 (3200–3000 BCE) tell of Ninevite 5 (Uruk–ED) in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur Triangle (c.3200 BCE).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze through Iron Age (EBA, Mitanni, Neo-Hittite, Neo-Assyrian) · Hurrian-Mitanni → Neo-Hittite Aramaean → Assyrian province
Tell Ahmar (Til Barsip) — Euphrates Palace Terrace is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Aleppo Governorate, Euphrates River, Jarabulus District, east bank, Syria — Neo-Hittite/Aramaean royal…