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1,182 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
PPNA to Early PPNB (10900–9500 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic A / Qaramelinian
Qaramel excavated by Mazurowski 1999–, oldest towers in Syria, PPNA round houses with skull cult and lithics older than Jericho.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Uruk to Early Bronze (3400–2400 BCE) · Late Uruk / Early Syrian
Bi'a hinterland mound excavated alongside Tuttul project, yielding Uruk contact ceramics and Early Bronze village phasing.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite ancient-village at Orkney.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite ancient-village at Orkney.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Bronze Age · Bronze Age
Bronze Age ancient-village at Haryana.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic ancient-village at Hidalgo.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient village
Classical · Classical
Classical ancient-village at Huanuco.
🇺🇸 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.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi (Wa)
Saga Yoshinogari excavated 1986–, 2000+ pit houses, Chinese Han mirrors and bronze daggers, moat chief graveyard.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Ancestral Pueblo (1275–1350 pueblo) + Spanish/American inscriptions 1605–1906 · Zuni / Ancestral Pueblo → Oñate Spanish 1605 to Beale wagon 1857
El Morro Atsinna excavated by Watson Smith 1940s, Oñate 1605 'pasó por aquí' oldest European inscription SW US.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite ancient-village at Aomori.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Neolithic (7000–2500 BCE; Aceramic 7000 BCE, Ceramic 5500 BCE) · Mehrgarh (pre-Harappan)
Bolan Mehrgarh excavated by Jarrige 1974–, 7000 BCE barley/wheat, 32,000 graves, earliest dentistry bow-drill.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Jomon Early to Middle (3900–2200 BCE) · Jomon (Sannai-Maruyama)
Aomori Jomon excavated 1992–, 1500 pit houses, chesnut pillar tower 14 m, lacquer and jade trade, UNESCO 2021.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
PPN (9300–8500 BCE) · PPN (Upper Tigris)
Siirt mound excavated by Karul 2016–, PPN village with anthropomorphic stele, early wheat and ritual bench.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Tiwa Pueblo (1000–present; North House c.1450) · Tiwa Pueblo (Taos) continuously occupied
Taos Pueblo occupied 1000–, UNESCO 1992, 5-storey North House 1450, Taos Revolt 1680 mission destroyed.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
PPNB to Early Halaf (8200–5300 BCE) · PPNB → Halaf (Amuq)
Euphrates village excavated by Molist 1991–, key Halaf transition sequence with painted Ubaid sherds.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Ancestral Pueblo 1200–1700 CE; Mission San Bernardo 1629–1680 Pueblo Revolt destroyed · Hopi / Spanish Franciscan mission
Awatovi excavated by Fewkes & Smithsonian 1935–39, Jeddito Yellow ware and mission destruction 1680.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Zuni Ancestral to Contact (1300–1680; Coronado 1540 first European battle) · Zuni (Ashiw) / Spanish Contact Coronado
Hawikuh excavated by Hodge 1917–23, 1540 Coronado battle with Estevánico death, 1680 revolt burned.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Kayenta Ancestral Pueblo (1250–1300 CE) + inscriptions 1661 Nieves, 1930s cowboys · Kayenta / Navajo / Spanish
Inscription House closed since 1968, Kayenta 1270 pueblo with Spanish 1661 nieves inscription.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Sinagua (1120–1250 CE) post-Sunset Crater · Sinagua / Ancestral Puebloan
Wupatki excavated by Hargrave 1930s, Sinagua pueblos linked to Sunset Crater ash mulching.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo IV to 1672 Spanish mission · Tompiro Pueblo / Salinas Spanish Missions (Franciscan)
Gran Quivira excavated by Vivian & Toulouse 1923, 1672 drought depopulation 16,000 to 0.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Ancestral Puebloan Pueblo III (1200–1300 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Hisatsinom)
Mesa Verde Mug House excavated by Rohn 1960s, 80 rooms, backcountry ranger permit only.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo IV Glaze A (1350–1480 CE) · Ancestral Tano (Rio Grande Puebloan) Mogollon-influenced
Pottery Mound excavated by Hibben 1953–61, murals similar to Hopi kachinas 100 km west.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo IV (1260–1400 CE) Homolovi Cluster · Hopi ancestral (Hisatsinom)
Homolovi excavated by Fewkes 1896 and Adams & Hays 1980–, Hopi migration to mesas.
