🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca Prieta
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
Kavuşan Höyük (Batman Province, Beşiri–Ilısu zone, Upper Tigris)
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
Burned Destruction Horizon West
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
Chitose Bibi Sites
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).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell Abu Suwan
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Abu Suwan — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Mafraq Governorate.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell Abu al-Kharaz
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Abu al-Kharaz — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Irbid Governorate.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Inamgaon
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.
🇸🇾 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.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Bouqras — Euphrates Early Neolithic Village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8000–6500 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic (Bouqras phase)
Bouqras — Euphrates Early Neolithic Village in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8000–6500 BCE) ancient-village attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic (Bouqras phase).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Rupnagar (Ropar)
Harappan to Medieval (c.3300 BCE–16th century CE) · Harappan → PGW → NBPW → Kushan → Gupta
First post-Independence Harappan excavation (1953) — 5000-year sequence from Harappan to medieval Punjab.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Sannai-Maruyama Site
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…
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Scânteia Cucuteni Settlement
Cucuteni A (c.4600–4200 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
Large Cucuteni A settlement of ~30 ha on the Larga Jijia promontory at Scânteia, excavated by C.-M. Mantu 1985–present.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Kashkashok III — Khabur Headwaters
Halaf late to Ubaid 4 (5200–3700 BCE; peak Ubaid 3 4500 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid (Khabur facies)
Ubaid tripartite houses 4800 BCE — most intact Halaf-Ubaid transition cluster.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Tell
Amri — Dadu
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
Chogha Sefid
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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Gre Virike South — Euphrates Terrace
Halaf to EBA III (5600–2000 BCE; main 3100–2000 BCE) · Halaf → Uruk interaction → EBA Karababa and Transcaucasian
EBA terrace tell on Suruç plain — Halaf under EBA jar-burial cemetery.
🇦🇺 Australia · Archaeological wonder
Lake Mungo National Park (Willandra Lakes)
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).
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Wijiji (Chaco Canyon)
Pueblo III; late McElmo revival · Mesa Verde McElmo → Chaco East Wash
Late McElmo eastern great house (30 rooms, 1105–1115 CE) at Chaco Wash narrows — single-wing McElmo revival after main canyon collapse, with check dams.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Alamgirpur
Late Harappan (c.3300–1300 BCE, easternmost Harappan) · Harappan–Bara
Easternmost Indus Valley site (Parasaram-ka-Khera) — Harappan frontier on Hindon/Ganga Doab.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Burzahom — Pit Dwellings Extension Terrace
Neolithic (3100–1500 BCE) then Megalithic · Kashmir Neolithic (Burzahom)
Burzahom — Pit Dwellings Extension Terrace in Jammu and Kashmir, India is a Neolithic (3100–1500 BCE) then Megalithic ancient-village attributed to Kashmir Neolithic (Burzahom).
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Nazca Hummingbird Annex North
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Nazca Hummingbird Annex North in Great Plains, United States is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient village
Real Alto — Valdivia Type Site
Valdivia (3500–1500 BCE) Early Ceramic Neolithic · Valdivia culture (earliest ceramics)
Real Alto — Valdivia Type Site in Santa Elena Province, Ecuador is a Valdivia (3500–1500 BCE) Early Ceramic Neolithic ancient-village attributed to Valdivia culture (earliest ceramics).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Chysauster Iron Age Village
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Chysauster 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).
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Kok Charoen
Neolithic (c.1500–1000 BCE, late)
Late Neolithic slope village (1500–1000 BCE) — forest-clearance pottery on Khao Wong fringe.