🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Shimoyakebe
Late Jomon 3000–500 BCE → Yayoi 400 BCE–300 CE (paddy) · Jomon → Yayoi (Kanto lowland)
Waterlogged Yayoi lowland at Shimoyakebe — paddy wooden tools and chestnut pits in peat (3000 BCE–300 CE).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Meare Lake Village – Somerset Iron Age Fen Cluster (Pool)
Iron Age British Late (Glastonbury tradition) · Somerset Levels Iron Age Britons
300–50 BCE fen twin villages—28 Iron Age houses on Meare Pool artificial islets.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Ancient village
Swifterbant S3 Settlement
Middle Neolithic (Swifterbant) · Swifterbant
Swifterbant culture river dune settlement S3 (c. 4300–4000 BCE) on buried levee in former Flevoland wetland, with pottery, antler, bone and early cereal evidence.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Goldcliff Severn Estuary Iron Age Trackways – Magor Pill
Neolithic to Iron Age (peak Iron Age) · Bronze Age to Iron Age Severn communities
Iron Age corduroy trackways (1000–100 BCE) on Goldcliff intertidal peat shelf — 30-m brushwood causeways.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient village
Nzulezo — Stilt Village on Lake Tadane
Early Modern Nzema (1600–present, continuous) · Nzema (Akan)
Nzulezo is a 400-year Nzema stilt village on Lake Tadane (Amansuri Lagoon) with 500+ houses on reflux mangrove piles 1–2 m above 5 km lake.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient village
Alvastra Pile Dwelling
Middle Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Funnel Beaker (TRB)
Neolithic pile dwelling (c.3000 BCE) of the Funnel Beaker culture on the former shore of Lake Vättern, with piles preserved in peat, pottery, flint and cemeteries.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Kurdu Tepe
Halaf–Ubaid (c.6000–3800 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid (Amuq A–D)
South Amik Halaf–Ubaid village (c.6000–3800 BCE, geometric painted ware, stamp seals) on former lakebed.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Ancient village
Hazendonk Donk Settlement
Middle to Late Neolithic · Hazendonk Group / Vlaardingen
Neolithic river dune (donk) settlement Hazendonk (c. 4000–2000 BCE) on Rhine-Meuse levee, type-site for Hazendonk Group pottery.