🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Horoztepe — Tokat Buried Elite Cemetery
EBA II–III (2600–2000 BCE) · North-Central Anatolian EBA (Alaca-Horoztepe horizon)
EBA elite shaft-cemetery 2500 BCE — gold diadems & stag stands (Özgüç).
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
EBA II–III (2600–2000 BCE) · North-Central Anatolian EBA (Alaca-Horoztepe horizon)
EBA elite shaft-cemetery 2500 BCE — gold diadems & stag stands (Özgüç).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic (7090–4950 BCE) early agriculture · Zagros early farming (Jarmo culture)
Jarmo — Zagros Early Farming Village in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq is a Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic (7090–4950 BCE) early agriculture ancient-village attributed to Zagros early farming…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Uruk to Islamic (4000 BCE–1200 CE) · Uruk → EBA Karababa → MBA → Hellenistic
Uruk–EBA ford mound 2700 BCE — burnt sealing houses at Qara Quzaq crossing.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Preceramic VI – Initial Period 6000–1800 BCE · Cupisnique/Pre-Cupisnique maritime
6000-year preceramic cotton mound 30×8 m with indigo dye and 7000-year textile nets 3 km from El Brujo.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf-Ubaid to Late Bronze (5.5k–1200 BCE) · Ubaid → Khabur → Mitanni → Middle Assyrian
Beşiri Tigris tell (Ubaid through Late Bronze) with 12 m sequence — Mitanni kilns and Khabur ware, Ilısu Garzan buffer salvage.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Burned Destruction Horizon West in Ohio Valley, United States is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Jomon (Early to Late, 5000–400 BCE, key Bibi IV Early Jomon) · Jomon (Hokkaido)
Jomon watershed village cluster on Chitose–Bibi portage — Bibi-chan animal figurine and Jomon masks (5000–400 BCE).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Deccan Chalcolithic Malwa–Early Jorwe–Late Jorwe 1600–700 BCE · Deccan Chalcolithic (Jorwe culture)
Deccan Chalcolithic type-site (3600–700 BCE) on Ghod River, Pune district, with 28 ha three-mound settlement spanning Malwa and Early–Late Jorwe phases.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Middle to Late Jomon 3900–2300 BCE (peak Early-Middle) · Jomon (northern Honshu hunter-gatherer)
Largest Jomon hunter-gatherer settlement (3900–2300 BCE) with 40 ha including six-pillar 15 m building (reconstructed), 500+ pit dwellings, longhouses, burial pits with red ochre, and jade exchange…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Tell
Pre-Harappan (3600–2600 BCE) · Amri
Amri — Dadu in Sindh, Dadu, Pakistan is a Pre-Harappan (3600–2600 BCE) tell attributed to Amri culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Neolithic (Bus Mordeh–Khazineh, c.7500–5800 BCE) · Deh Luran early Neolithic (Zagros)
Deh Luran tell 5 m high (c.7500–5800 BCE, Bus Mordeh–Khazineh, goat lentil) in Deh Luran plain.
🇦🇺 Australia · Archaeological wonder
Willandra 50,000–10,000 BCE occupation (Mungo Man 40,000 BP OSL roughly 1999/2003) · Paakantyi / Ngyiampaa / Mutthi Mutthi ancestors; Paakantyi contemporary traditional owners
Dry lake lunette crescent 30 km "Walls of China" with 40,000-year occupation revealing Mungo Man (1969, oldest cremation ~40,000 BP with ochred burial) and Mungo Lady (1968 cremation recalcined).
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Neolithic (c.1500–1000 BCE, late)
Late Neolithic slope village (1500–1000 BCE) — forest-clearance pottery on Khao Wong fringe.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Late Harappan / Copper Hoard & Ochre Coloured Pottery (c.2200–1800 BCE) · Late Harappan–OCP / Copper Hoard Culture
Royal Late Harappan cemetery with India's first Bronze Age chariots (2200–1800 BCE) at Sinauli.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Carn Euny Iron Age Village in Cornwall, South West, United Kingdom is a prehistoric fortified settlement of the Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500 BCE–500 CE).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Early to Late Harappan (c.3000–1700 BCE, five phases) · Harappan (Sindhi–Kachchhi)
Harappan island fort Bakarkot in eastern Kachchh — five-phase Harappan–medieval citadel.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Santa Cruz Submerged Village West in Yucatán Cenote, Mexico is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Classical culture.
🇱🇹 Lithuania · Ancient village
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Kretinga Hillfort & Iron Age Grave in Klaipėda County, Lithuania is a prehistoric fortified settlement of the Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500 BCE–500 CE).
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Talaiot de Torre d'en Galmés in Balearic Islands, Menorca, Spain is a prehistoric fortified settlement of the Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500 BCE–500 CE).
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Baiae Submerged Villa North in Pavlopetri Coast, Greece is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient village
Sogdian–Kangju (200 BCE–300 CE) · Kangju–Sarmatian to Sogdian (Orlat plaques)
Orlat is the Sarmatian–Kangju cemetery with famed Orlat bone plaques — carved battle and hunting scenes linking Sogdiana to Steppe nomads, 4 kurgans (8 m high).
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo III to Historic (1150–1838 CE) — gateway pueblo at plains-pueblo interface · Towa Pueblo (Cicuye) / Plains-Pueblo trade
Pecos excavated by Kidder 1915–29, birthplace of Pueblo stratigraphy, 700 rooms 1300–1838 then abandoned to Jemez.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Talaiot de Ses Païsses in Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Spain is a prehistoric fortified settlement of the Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500 BCE–500 CE).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Drainage Channel North in Basin of Mexico, Mexico is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Local Neolithic culture.