🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chia Sabz
Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.4000–2700 BCE) · Seimareh valley Chalcolithic → Transcaucasian Early Bronze
Seimareh cemetery mound 15 ha (140 EB cist graves, bronze daggers, c.4–3 ka) in Seimareh valley.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Kin Biniola Chaco Outlier
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Kin Biniola Chaco Outlier — buried ancestral tell/village at New Mexico.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tureng Tepe
Neolithic–Bronze (5300–1800 BCE) · Tureng–Gorgan Chalcolithic
Neolithic–Bronze (5300–1800 BCE) Tureng–Gorgan Chalcolithic tell at Golestan Province, Gorgan plain – stratified gorgan plain type-site with grey ware (dims High mound 30 m, 15 ha lower town).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Kashkashok III
Ubaid–Uruk (5200–3100 BCE) · Ubaid – Uruk
Ubaid–Uruk (5200–3100 BCE) Ubaid – Uruk tell at Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur tributary – ubaid–uruk village on khabur tributary (dims Mound 2 ha, 6 m Ubaid–Uruk).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chirand Neolithic Site
Neolithic–Chalcolithic–Iron Age 2500 BCE–600 CE · Neolithic Gangetic / Narhan culture precursor
Lowland Neolithic–Chalcolithic mound (2500 BCE–140 CE) at Ganga–Ghaghara confluence, Saran, Bihar, with 42 ft cultural deposit and continuous sequence Neolithic → Chalcolithic → Iron Age →…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Keşan Höyük
Middle–Late Bronze (2000–1200 BCE) · Thracian Bronze Age
Middle–Late Bronze (2000–1200 BCE) Thracian Bronze Age tell at Edirne Province, Thrace – thracian bronze age mound on thracian plain (dims Mound 6 m high, Bronze deposits with Troy imports).
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient village
Village of Wick Ford
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Village of Wick Ford in Fezzan, Libya is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Classical culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Beşik Tepe — Troy Outer Coastal Settlement
Early Bronze I to Middle Bronze (2900–2000 BCE) · Troy I maritime / EBA Northwest Anatolian
Troy I harbour hamlet 2900 BCE — coastal EBA tumulus with Troy Ib wares.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Hotnitsa North Tell — Veliko Tarnovo Gumelniţa
Late Chalcolithic Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI–Kodžadermen (4600–4300 BCE) · Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen–Karanovo VI
Chalcolithic burned village 4600 BCE — 407 gold items neighbouring mound (Chohadzhiev).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ojiyana (Ojhiyana)
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas (c.3000–1500 BCE) · Ahar-Banas
Hill-slope Ahar-Banas terraced village on Aravalli granite above Beawar — unique upland adaptation.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Köşk Höyük — Bor South Skull-Cult Annex
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic (6000–5000 BCE; Levels I–III) · Cappadocian Neolithic–Chalcolithic with Halaf links
Neolithic skull-cult village 6000 BCE — plastered skulls and relief houses.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tilbeşar Höyük
Neolithic–Iron (6000–600 BCE) · Halaf to Neo-Hittite
Neolithic–Iron (6000–600 BCE) Halaf to Neo-Hittite tell at Gaziantep Province – citadel on aleppo–carchemish road (dims Mound 25 m high, lower town 10 ha).
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Daura Kusugu Pondfield (Bayajida Well)
Medieval Hausa (Bakwai period, 9th–15th c. CE) · Hausa (Daura, Hausa Bakwai)
Sacred pondfield where Bayajida slew snake Sarki (Daura origin).
🇵🇪 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.
🇮🇳 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.
🇮🇳 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.
🇺🇸 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.
🇬🇧 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).
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Ancient city
Shortugai
Mature Harappan (c.2500–1800 BCE) · Harappan colony (Indus diaspora on Oxus)
Northernmost Harappan colony on Oxus (Darqad) — lapis procurement hub 250 km from Badakhshan mines.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Rashid (Hamrin)
Ubaid (5000–4300 BCE) · Ubaid
Ubaid (5000–4300 BCE) Ubaid tell at Diyala Governorate, Hamrin – ubaid village with grain storages (dims 1.1 ha).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Pavlopetri Megalithic Wall West
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Pavlopetri Megalithic Wall West in Alexandria Coast, Egypt is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Cleopatra Palace Crypt South — Alexandria Coast (Alexandria)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Local Neolithic
Cleopatra Palace Crypt South in Alexandria Coast, Egypt is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient village attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Karanpura
Early to Mature Harappan (c.3300–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Drishadvati Harappan town 60 km west of Hisar — fortified Early Harappan to planned Mature grid.