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🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Middle Neolithic to Late Neolithic (Hamangia I–IV) · Hamangia (Black Sea Neolithic)
Type-site Hamangia culture (c.5250–4550 BCE, Middle Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic) on Goloviţa lagoon: low tell plus flat cemetery famous for 'The Thinker' (Gânditorul) and Woman seated figurines —…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic · Burdur-Antalya (Hacilar-associated)
Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic lakeside shrine-village (c.6500–5500 BCE) in Burdur Lake District, famous for 'Martyrium' burnt shrine phase with mother-goddess and leopard reliefs, and hoard of…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Pottery Neolithic / Yarmoukian · Yarmoukian (Levantine Pottery Neolithic)
Type-site of the Yarmoukian culture (6400–5800 BCE), the first Pottery Neolithic culture of the southern Levant, on the Yarmouk River.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic · Burdur Lake Neolithic (Hacılar culture)
Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic tell (5700–3500 BCE) in the Burdur Lake District, where James Mellaart uncovered nine aceramic and ceramic Neolithic levels with lime-plaster floors and spectacular…
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Early to Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic (Starčevo→Vinča) · Vinča culture (Old Europe)
Type-site of the Vinča culture (5700–4500 BCE), the most advanced Neolithic-Copper Age tell in Southeast Europe: 9 m cultural layer, 13 habitation horizons, figurines (Lady of Vinča), proto-writing…
