🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Dinkha Tepe
Late Bronze–Iron (1500–800 BCE) · Iron Age Hasanlu LBA
Late Bronze–Iron (1500–800 BCE) tell of Iron Age Hasanlu LBA in West Azerbaijan, Ushnu-Solduz (c.1500 BCE).
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Sinagua (c.1100–1250 CE) Northern Sinagua – Cohonina transition · Northern Sinagua
Walnut Canyon National Monument preserves 300+ Northern Sinagua cliff dwellings (c.1100–1250 CE) set in shallow alcoves under the Kaibab Limestone rim of a 122m-deep canyon 12 km east of Flagstaff,…
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Nagda
Malwa Chalcolithic 1700–1400 BCE → Avanti Early Historic 700–500 BCE · Malwa Chalcolithic → Avanti (Ujjain) Early Historical
Malwa hillock at Nagda Junction — Banerjee/B.B. Lal's Malwa type (round huts, buff ware, 1.6 km NW of station).
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Qujialing
Qujialing 3400–2600 BCE → Shijiahe 2600–2300 → Longshan · Qujialing culture (Middle Yangzi Chalcolithic) → Shijiahe
Type-site for Qujialing culture (c.3400–2600 BCE) on the Qujialing–Shijiahe plateau north of Chang Lake in Jianghan Plain — 263 ha palisaded terrace (eastern plateau 160 m height) excavated 1955–57…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tilmen Höyük (Tilmen Palace Mound West Terrace)
Late Chalcolithic through Neo-Hittite (4000–700 BCE) · Amanos piedmont → Yamhad (Alalakh) → Hittite → Neo-Hittite
Tilmen Höyük (Tilmen Palace Mound West Terrace) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Gaziantep Province, İslahiye District, Amanos foothills, Turkey — Amanos gateway kingdom capital with MBA…
🇵🇱 Poland · Ancient village
Biskupin Iron Age Lake Fort
Early Iron Age, Lusatian culture Hallstatt C · Lusatian (Lausitz) culture Hallstatt-period farmers
740 BCE Lusatian lake-fort—106 identical street-grid houses on Lake Biskupin islet.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Lerna House of Tiles Annex Courtyard — Eastern Outlier
Early Bronze Age (3200-2000 BCE) · Early Helladic
Lerna House of Tiles Annex Courtyard — Eastern Outlier in Peloponnese, Argolis, Greece is a Early Bronze Age (3200-2000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Early Helladic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Hierakonpolis Locality HK6 Elite Cemetery Terrace — Northern Annex
Chalcolithic (3800-3100 BCE) · Naqada II-III
Hierakonpolis Locality HK6 Elite Cemetery Terrace — Northern Annex in Aswan, Kom Ombo, Egypt is a Chalcolithic (3800-3100 BCE) ancient village attributed to Naqada II-III.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Sanganakallu
Southern Neolithic 3000–1000 BCE (Periods I–III) → Megalithic · Southern Neolithic (Bellary) — earliest Deccan farming
Southern Neolithic type-complex (c.3000–1000 BCE) on the granite hillocks east of Bellary — Sanganakallu–Kupgal cluster (206 ha survey) excavated 1946 by B.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chogha Mish
Late Neolithic through Middle Elamite (c.6800–2000 BCE); Archaic Susiana, Middle Susiana, Uruk, Susa II, Elamite · Susiana (Archaic–Middle) → Uruk–Susa II (Proto-Elamite) → Elamite (Susa III)
Susiana proto-literate tell (c.4400–3100 BCE) with early seals and Burnt Building — Delougaz/Kantor type-site for Susa plain (20 ha).
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Ancient village
Borobudur North Gallery Relief Panel 77
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Borobudur North Gallery Relief Panel 77 in Central Java, Magelang, Indonesia is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Cladh Hallan Bronze–Iron Age Village & Mummy Excarnation Site (South Uist)
Early Bronze to Middle Iron Age (2200 BCE–200 CE) · Hebridean Bronze–Iron (Machair Beaker to Atlantic wheelhouse)
13-machair roundhouses (2200 BCE–200 CE) with 4 curated composite mummies (1100–800 BCE) — Europe's only mummy curation.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Mezhirich Mammoth Bone House 4 North Wall
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Mezhirich Mammoth Bone House 4 North Wall in Cherkasy, Mezhirich, Ukraine is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Ortaköy-Sapinuwa (Hittite Administrative Quarter)
Hittite Old Kingdom through Empire (1600–1180 BCE) · Hittite (Hatti)
Ortaköy-Sapinuwa (Hittite Administrative Quarter) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Çorum Province, Ortaköy District, Çekerek valley, Turkey — Hittite administrative and military-ritual city…
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient village
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Western Terrace
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Western Terrace in Yerevan, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kura-Araxes.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Ozette Indian Village
Late Pacific Northwest (1500–1750 CE, buried c.1700) · Makah (Nuu-chah-nulth)
Ozette Indian Village in Washington, United States is a Late Pacific Northwest (1500–1750 CE, buried c.1700) ancient village attributed to Makah (Nuu-chah-nulth) culture.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Cemetery
Non Nok Tha Khon Kaen
Neolithic 3000 → Bronze 1300 BCE → Iron 500 BCE–200 CE · Isan Khorat — Non Nok Tha Bronze–Iron hill (Phu Wiang)
Non Nok Tha Khon Kaen — Neolithic to Iron Age cemetery mound (3000 BCE–200 CE, 45 burials) on Phi Wiang hill 55 km NW Khon Kaen, excavated 1966–68 by Bayard–Solheim (Univ.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Topper Site
Pre-Clovis (Topper) to Clovis · Pre-Clovis (Topper)/Clovis
Pre-Clovis chert quarry (15,000 BCE) with debated lower horizon below Clovis on Savannah River, South Carolina.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Ancient village
Samrong Sen Kampong Chhnang
Neolithic 2300–1500 → Bronze 1500 BCE Samrong Sen type-site · Tonle Sap Neolithic — Samrong Sen circular moat tradition (Mekong)
Samrong Sen Kampong Chhnang — Neolithic circular mound settlement (2300–1200 BCE, 1500 BP early metal) on sand terrace at Tonle Sap southern rim 30 km NW Kampong Chhnang, excavated 1923–26 by H.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Casamero Pueblo
Pueblo II Chacoan (1000–1150 CE) · Pueblo II Chacoan (1000–1150 CE)
Casamero Pueblo in New Mexico, McKinley County, Rio Puerco, near Prewitt, United States is a Pueblo II Chacoan (1000–1150 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo II Chacoan (1000–1150 CE) culture.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient village
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench in Yerevan, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kura-Araxes.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Phung Nguyen
Early Bronze Phung Nguyen 2000–1500 BCE · Phung Nguyen (Red River Early Bronze)
Red River First Bronze type Phùng Nguyên (2000–1500 BCE) — nephrite jue and shouldered adze village in Phú Thọ.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Barnhouse Stone Age Village
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2500 BCE) · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Late Neolithic village on Loch of Harray with 15 houses and ceremonial hall Structure 8 facing the Stones of Stenness.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Tomb
Malagana
Yotoco–Malagana (c.500 BCE–500 CE) and Sonso (c.500–1550 CE) · Malagana–Yotoco–Sonso (Calima sphere)
Malagana at El Bolo, Palmira, Valle del Cauca (970 m) is infamous for the 1992 sugar-cane slurry that exposed a Yotoco–Malagana cemetery (500 BCE–500 CE) and led to the wholesale looting of ~4 tonnes…