🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Rim and Mai Hills
Kanem-Bornu to Kano (13th–18th c.) · Kanuri / Hausa
Paired frontier hills with 3 km refuge walls and indigo pits (50).
🇮🇳 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.
🇯🇵 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.
🇵🇰 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.
🇦🇺 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).
🇵🇱 Poland · Ancient village
Gorzyczki, Silesian Voivodeship
Gorzyczki [ɡɔˈʐɨt͡ʂki] is a village in Gmina Gorzyce, Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland.
🇹🇭 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.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Sanauli (Sinauli)
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
Carn Euny Iron Age 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
Kanmer (Bakarkot)
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
Santa Cruz Submerged Village West
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
Kretinga Hillfort & Iron Age Grave
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
Talaiot de Torre d'en Galmés
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).
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient village
Orlat
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
Pecos Pueblo — Forked Lightning Trading Post Cicuye
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
Talaiot de Ses Païsses
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).
🇵🇱 Poland · Ancient village
Czarnowo, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Czarnowo [t͡ʂarˈnɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zławieś Wielka, within Toruń County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Drainage Channel North
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.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Chumash Plank Canoe Workshop West
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Chumash Plank Canoe Workshop West in Harrat al-Sham, Jordan is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient village attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Chysauster Ancient Village — Gulval
Iron Age – Romano-British (300 BCE–400 CE) · Dumnonii / Romano-British
Chysauster Ancient Village — Gulval in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age – Romano-British (300 BCE–400 CE) ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii / Romano-British.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient village
Jebel Barkal Temple Extension
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Jebel Barkal Temple Extension in Matmata, Tunisia is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Kin Klizhin (Chaco Outlier)
Pueblo II-III; Chaco outlier · Chacoan McElmo outlier / local Red Mesa synthesis
Southern Wash outlier great house (50 rooms, c.1085 CE) with L-plan and Chaco road causeway — wash-margin agricultural outlier illustrating Chaco emulation.