🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Samun Dukiya (Nok satellite)
Nigerian Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · Nok
Waterlogged pit yielding 25 in-situ Nok heads 900 BCE–500 CE and early 550 BCE iron knives.
🇲🇾 Malaysia · Archaeological wonder
Bujang Valley
The Bujang Valley (originally in Sanskrit: Scholars' Valley, now in modern Malay: Lembah Bujang) is a sprawling 5th to 14th century CE Indianised Hindu-Buddhist historical complex, which is the…
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Ban Non Wat (Mun Valley)
Neolithic 1750–1000 → Bronze Age 1000–400 → Iron Age 400 BCE–500 CE · Mun Valley Neolithic → Ban Chiang Bronze → Iron Age (Isan)
Ban Non Wat — 5000-year moated farming village (1750 BCE–500 CE, Neolithic→Iron Age) 50 km NE Nakhon Ratchasima, Mun floodplain, excavated 2002–12 Higham and Higham (Otago).
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Non Nok Tha (Phu Wiang)
Neolithic 1500–1000 → Bronze Age 1000–400 → Iron Age 400 BCE–200 CE · Isan Khorat Plateau (Neolithic → Bronze → Iron)
Non Nok Tha — Isan Neolithic–Iron Age cemetery village (1500 BCE–200 CE, 300 burials) 90 km west Khon Kaen, Phu Wiang district, excavated 1966–68 Bayard (Otago) and Solheim.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Turunku
Iron Age Nok Culture (500 BCE–500 CE; iron from 550 BCE) · Nok Culture
Turunku in Kaduna's Nok Valley is a Nok Culture iron-smelting precinct and terracotta site, 500 BCE–500 CE, revealing sub-Saharan Africa's earliest iron (c.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Archaeological wonder
Nil Kham Haeng (Non Nok Tha? Actually Nil Kham Haeng Copper-Iron Transition)
Bronze (1100–600 BCE) → Iron Age transition 500 BCE–300 CE (Khao Wong Prachan Bridge) · Khao Wong Prachan Copper→Iron (Central Thai)
Copper→Iron transition industrial village (c.1100 BCE–300 CE) in the Khao Wong Prachan Valley near Lopburi adjacent to Non Pa Wai — 4 ha hill slope settlement plus smelting with rare continuous…
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Gajiganna Culture Complex (Borno)
Chad Basin Late Stone Age · Gajiganna culture
Urn-field mound complex defining Gajiganna culture bridging Saharan and sub-Saharan pastoralism before Kanem.