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🇲🇹 Malta · Temple complex
Late Neolithic Temple Period (3600-2500 BCE) · Temple Period
Mnajdra South Temple Terrace Annex — Southern Extension in Malta, Qrendi, Malta is a Late Neolithic Temple Period (3600-2500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Temple Period.
🇮🇹 Italy · Temple complex
Late Neolithic (4000-3200 BCE) · Ozieri Culture
Monte d'Accoddi Platform North Rite Annex — Northern Annex in Sardinia, Sassari, Italy is a Late Neolithic (4000-3200 BCE) temple complex attributed to Ozieri Culture.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Early Bronze Age Phung Nguyen 2000–1500 BCE · Phung Nguyen culture — Red River early bronze (type-site)
Phu Tho Phung Nguyen Hill — type-site of Phung Nguyen culture (2000–1500 BCE, Vietnam's earliest Bronze Age) on Hong River hill 10 km Viet Tri, 60 km NW Hanoi, excavated 1961 by Hoang Van Khoan (then…
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Mythic 10th c. Kalachakra introduction – chronicle 11th c. (Khache Panchen) · Tibetan Buddhist / Uyghur Buddhist–Manichean historical substrate
Kalachakra's hidden valley north of Kunlun — Hilton's 1933 Shangri-La renamed a Yunnan city 850 km away.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Taversoe Tuick Two Storey Annex — Southern Extension in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical Greek/Roman
Temple of Hephaestus East Pediment Foundation in Attica, Agora, Greece is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical Greek/Roman.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn South — Northern Annex in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Yavne-Yam Submerged Bronze Age Anchorage in Central, Yavne-Yam, Israel is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Rock-cut
Iron Age (900-100 BCE) · Lihyanite/Dedanite
Al Ula Dedan Necropolis Lion Tomb Access Ridge — Western Terrace in Al Ula, Medina, Saudi Arabia is a Iron Age (900-100 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Lihyanite/Dedanite.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Cenchreae Submerged Warehouse Block in Corinthia, Cenchreae, Greece is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Dvarka Bet Submerged Harappan Anchorage in Gujarat, Bet Dwarka, India is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical Greek/Roman
Epidauros Tholos Underground Labyrinth in Argolis, Epidauros, Greece is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical Greek/Roman.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (4500-4000 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Er Grah Broken Menhir Base Deposit — Northern Annex in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Middle Neolithic (4500-4000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Atlantic Neolithic.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8500 BCE) · Natufian-PPN
Jericho Pre-Pottery Tower Annex North — Northern Annex in Jericho Governorate, Palestine is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8500 BCE) tell attributed to Natufian-PPN.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical pre-Columbian 800 CE (if cultural) or Holocene paleo-river natural · Hypothetical Casarabe north (unvalidated) or natural paleo-river
Pando Kunduriri hypothetical 5 km ridge grid 0.6 m with pools 40 m — satellite geometry but ground truth oxbow scroll bars, no sherds, natural levee suspected.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Mound
Sambaqui (c.7000–1500 BCE) South-Central Brazilian Coast · Sambaqui – Camacho fishermen-collectors
Sambaqui Figueirinha near Jaguaruna, Santa Catarina, is a giant late Holocene shell mound (sambaqui) on the Imaruí–Garopaba coastal lagoon plain at 5 m asl.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Hydraulic works
Iron Age Neo-Assyrian Empire (705–681 BCE Sennacherib) · Neo-Assyrian imperial engineers under Sennacherib
690 BCE Assyrian 300-m stone arch aqueduct—world's oldest bridge-aqueduct carrying Nineveh's 80-km canal.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Utica Submerged Phoenician Harbour Channel in Bizerte, Utica, Tunisia is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3000-2500 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Carnac Le Menec West Sector Alignment — Northern Annex in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Late Neolithic (3000-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Atlantic Neolithic.
🇫🇷 France · Tumulus
Middle Neolithic (4500-3500 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Tumulus Saint-Michel Annex Cist South — Eastern Outlier in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Middle Neolithic (4500-3500 BCE) tumulus attributed to Atlantic Neolithic.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Rock-cut
Iron Age (900-100 BCE) · Lihyanite/Dedanite
Al Ula Dedan Necropolis Lion Tomb Access Ridge — Eastern Outlier in Al Ula, Medina, Saudi Arabia is a Iron Age (900-100 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Lihyanite/Dedanite.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Pre-Pottery Neolithic C (7000-6000 BCE) · PPN Culture
Atlitz Yam Submerged Courtyard North Wall in Haifa District, Atlit, Israel is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic C (7000-6000 BCE) submerged city attributed to PPN Culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Chaco Pueblo Bonito Room 33 Burials in New Mexico, Chaco Canyon, United States is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Kayatha 2400–1700 → Malwa 1700–1500 BCE → Historic · Kayatha–Ahar–Malwa–Jorwe Chalcolithic sequence
Malwa Chalcolithic mega-village (2100–1500 BCE) south of Kayatha — 8 ha type assemblage of painted Malwa ware with 200 houses per phase.
