Cemeteries

🇧🇷 Brazil · Cave

Lapa do Santo

Early Holocene (c.12000–8000 BCE) Lagoa Santa Paleoindian · Lagoa Santa Paleoindian (Luzia horizon)

Lapa do Santo is a Lower Karst limestone rockshelter at Mocambeiro, northern Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, at 730 m.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Başur Höyük

Late Chalcolithic (LC4-5) pre-Uruk to Jemdet Nasr · Upper Tigris LC culture (Uruk-extended / local transcaucasian)

Siirt ‘royal’ chalcolithic cemetery (3500–3000 BCE) with retainer burials — copper, lapis and earliest gaming set at Uruk fringe, Upper Tigris inequality origin.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Boa Island Janus Figures

Iron Age (Celtic) · Pre-Christian Celtic / Iron Age Ireland

Iron Age janus idols (1.2 m double-headed) in Boa Island cemetery, Lough Erne — most enigmatic Celtic stones in Ireland.

🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus

Ushivika Kofun Cluster

Yayoi late 3rd c → Kofun 4th–6th c CE · Yayoi–Kofun transition — Suo Bay Kitakyushu

Ushivika Kofun Cluster — late Yayoi to Kofun burial cluster (3rd–6th c CE, 11 mounds) on Suo Bay terrace at Kanda, north Kyushu, surveyed 1970s–90s.

🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid

Tabo (Argo) Temple-Mound & Pyramids

Kerma reuse to Kushite (25th Dynasty–Meroitic) · Kerma / Kushite (Napatan)

Argo Island pyramidal mound-temple at Tabo — 14 m mudbrick platform with Taharqa Amun temple c.690 BCE and 8 Napatan pyramids 5–8 m.

🇮🇹 Italy · Tumulus

Thapsos — North Cist Grave Field (Priolo)

Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age

Thapsos — North Cist Grave Field (Priolo) in Sicily, Priolo Gargallo, Italy is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attributed to Hallstat…

🇨🇳 China · Temple complex

Niuheliang

Neolithic Hongshan (4700–2900 BCE; ritual peak 3500 BCE) · Hongshan culture (Liao River painted pottery, jade)

Niuheliang is Hongshan culture's ritual centre (4700–2900 BCE) — Goddess Temple with clay female figurine, 16 altar platforms, and 30 stone-cairn tombs with jade pig-dragons on Yanshan piedmont.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Ancient village

Kantarodai

Iron Age to Early Historic (1000 BCE–300 CE) · Tamil megalithic to early Buddhist (Jaffna Dravidian)

Kantarodai is an Iron Age cemetery (1000 BCE–300 CE) north of Jaffna, a 2-ha field of 60 votive mini-stupas (1–2 m) over megalithic urn burials plus Tamil-Brahmi settlement (300 BCE).

🇯🇴 Jordan · Necropolis

Necropolis of Thwaite

Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche

Necropolis of Thwaite in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Moche (100–800 CE) necropolis attributed to Moche culture.

🇩🇿 Algeria · Necropolis

Necropolis of Combe Ness Spur

Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan

Necropolis of Combe Ness Spur in Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) necropolis attributed to Harappan culture.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

İkiztepe Samsun — Black Sea Buried Village and Cemetery

Late Chalcolithic to EBA III (4200–2000 BCE) · Pontic Chalcolithic–EBA (Bafra horizon; Maikop affinities)

Pontic coastal necropolis 4200–2000 BCE — 600 graves, arsenical bronze.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Khamis

Halaf–Early Bronze Age (c.5600–2300 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid → EBA Syro-Mesopotamian

Interfluve tell 9 m high (Halaf–Ubaid–EB, shaft tombs, black-burnished ware) between Euphrates and Sajur.

🇸🇪 Sweden · Tumulus

Valsgärde Boat Grave Field

Vendel Period to Viking Age (c.550–1100 CE) · Vendel / Viking Age Svear

Cemetery on a ridge above the Fyris river used for 600 years (5th–11th c.) with 15 Vendel–Viking boat graves (c.600–1100), chamber graves and 62 cremations.

🇸🇪 Sweden · Tumulus

Vendel Boat Grave Field

Vendel Period (550–800 CE) · Vendel Period Svear

Eponymous Vendel Period cemetery in Vendel churchyard with 14 intact boat graves 550–800 CE excavated 1881–93 by Hjalmar Stolpe.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Necropolis

Necropolis of Dara-Wadi

Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche

Necropolis of Dara-Wadi in Dhi Qar, Iraq is a Moche (100–800 CE) necropolis attributed to Moche culture.

🇰🇵 North Korea · Tumulus

Lelang Tombs — Han Colony Tombs Pyeongyang

Han Chinese Lelang Commandery (108 BCE–313 CE) · Han Chinese colonial (Lelang)

Rangnang Lelang excavated by Japanese colonial 1920s and DPRK, 108 BCE Han colony after Wiman Joseon conquest.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Cemetery

Horoztepe

Early Bronze Age (c.2800–2300 BCE; cemetery c.2400 BCE) · North-Central Anatolian Early Bronze (Alacahöyük-Horoztepe horizon)

Extra-mural Early Bronze princely cemetery (2400 BCE) with Alaca-like bronzes at Erbaa.

🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid

Nuri — Taharqa and Napatan Pyramid Field East Barkal

Napatan (700–300 BCE Napatan kings → early Meroitic) · Kushite Napatan

Nuri excavated by Reisner 1917 and Dunham, 21 kings, Taharqa 690–664 BCE, vaulted chamber 10 m shaft.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus

Horuztepe

Early Bronze III (2800–2300 BCE) · Early Bronze Pontic–Anatolian

Early Bronze III (2800–2300 BCE) tumulus of Early Bronze Pontic–Anatolian in Tokat Province, Erbaa Plain (c.2600 BCE).

🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus

Kaup-Wiskiauten Viking Cemetery (Mochovoye)

Early Middle Ages (9th–11th c. Viking Age) · Scandinavian Varangians + Prussian Sambians

Kaup-Wiskiauten Viking Cemetery (Mochovoye) in Kaliningrad Oblast, Zelenogradsk District, Mochovoye village on Curonian Spit edge, Russia is a Early Middle Ages (9th–11th c.

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Tell

Pleistocene Djadochta Formation (75 Ma) → Neolithic (7000–3000 BCE) → Bronze Age 3000–1000 BCE → Slab Grave Iron Age · Gobi Neolithic microlithic → Afanasievo–Chemurchek Bronze (Gobi) → Slab Grave Iron Age nomadic

Gobi Flaming Cliffs (Bayanzag) — Neolithic pit camps to Chemurchek burials capping Djadochta dinosaur nests (Andrews 1922).

🇻🇳 Vietnam · Cemetery

Con Co Ngua Cemetery

Hoabinhian late 6000 BP → Da But Neolithic transition · Da But — Hoabinhian→Neolithic cemetery transition on Ma plain

Con Co Ngua Cemetery — Da But cemetery (6000–5500 BP, late Hoabinhian-Neolithic transition) on limestone knoll at Ha Trung 35 km N Thanh Hoa, excavated 1979–98 and 2013 by V.

🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village

Truong Son Sa Huynh Site

Iron Age Sa Huynh 1000 BCE–200 CE Iron Age coastal · Sa Huynh — Truong Son coastal Iron Age (Cham pre-culture)

Truong Son Sa Huynh Site — Sa Huynh culture type locality edge (1000 BCE–200 CE, Iron Age coastal Vietnam) on South China Sea dunes at Sa Huynh 50 km S Quang Ngai, foothill of Truong Son (Annamite…

🇸🇪 Sweden · Burial field

Vendel

Migration → Vendel Period 550–790 → Viking Age to 10th c · Vendel Period Svear (Tiundaland) — type eponym Vendeltid

Vendel (Vendel parish Tierp) — boat-grave field (Vendel Period 550–790 + Viking 14 graves total 1881–83 H.