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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Late Neolithic Wessex / Beaker
Iconic Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age henge and stone circle on Salisbury Plain. Concentric ditch, bank and settings of sarsen stones and smaller bluestones forming lintelled circle and inner…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Neolithic to Chalcolithic 1960 BCE · Late Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic Somerset Levels
Neolithic hurdle and oak trackway (1960 BCE, 600 m) at Abbots Way, Wedmore Island - intermediate Somerset technique.
🇴🇲 Oman · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic (Arabian Humid Period, 5300–5000 BCE) · East Arabian Neolithic (Ubar–Wusta pastoral, Humid Period)
30 large mustatils (5300–5000 BCE) at Ubar — easternmost Rub al Khali cattle-cult province.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Liangzhu Fanshan Altar Jade Cong Hoard in Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇩🇪 Germany · Earthwork
Middle Neolithic, STK (4900 BCE) · Central European Neolithic (Stichbandkeramik/Stroke-Ornamented)
4900 BCE double ditch-palisade circle with winter solstice gates—Europe's oldest solar observatory.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Anuradhapura Jetavanaramaya South Brick Core in North Central, Sri Lanka is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Mesa Verde Cliff Palace Tower House in Colorado, Mesa Verde, United States is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age transition (1800–300 BCE) Pre-Ghana · Soninke ancestors / Tichitt Culture (agropastoralists)
250 km cuesta with 200+ Neolithic villages (1800 BCE) and earliest domesticated pearl millet 1900 BCE – West Africa's first sedentism.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Terracotta Army Pit 2 Cavalry Flank in Shaanxi, Lintong, China is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic through Early Bronze Age II (c.6700-2750 BCE) · Aegean-Neolithic to Chalcolithic to Western Anatolian EBA
Neolithic-EBA shoreline tell (6680-2750 BCE) at Ephesus — earliest Aegean copper workshop and EBA walled village.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Humberhead communities (Grooved Ware)
821-m Neolithic pine corduroy trackway (2435 BCE) on Hatfield Moor — longest British Neolithic.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Anuradhapura Abhayagiri North Dagoba Base in North Central, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Samrong Sen Neolithic 1500–500 BCE → Bronze 500 BCE–200 CE → early Chenla · Samrong Sen (Mekong Neolithic rice, Austroasiatic Khmer ancestor?)
Oldest Khmer Neolithic mound and cemetery (c.1500 BCE–200 BCE, Samrong Sen culture) on the Tonle Sap west bank near Kampong Chhnang — 7 ha hill slope with 3 m shell-rich layers excavated 1901–02 by…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Mehrgarh Period IIII Mudbrick House 41 in Balochistan, Kachi, Pakistan is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
PPNA to early PPNB (Late Epipaleolithic → Neolithic) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPNA, Upper Tigris forager-cultivators)
PPNA buried village (11200–9500 cal BP) with 400 burials under round-house floors — Upper Tigris type-site for Neolithic mortuary behaviour, Ilısu salvage.
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Outer Chaco Canyon Village West — Chaco Canyon (55-39) at Chaco Canyon, United States is a Neolithic (regional) temple complex of the Neolithic tradition, built c.
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Outer Henan Citadel A — Henan, Erlitou (54-27) at Henan, Erlitou, China is a Neolithic (regional) temple complex of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 200 CE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Temple complex
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Lower Axum Terrace B — Axum (57-43) at Axum, Ethiopia is a Neolithic (regional) temple complex of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 800 BCE for terrace and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Upper Meroe Ridge A — Meroe (53-31) at Meroe, Sudan is a Neolithic (regional) temple complex of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Stichbandkeramik / Stroke-Ornamented ware
4900 BCE circular ditch and double timber palisade with solstice gates — Europe's oldest solar observatory.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Early Neolithic Ireland (Lambay / Burren Neolithic)
Burren's iconic portal dolmen — 3.7 m capstone over 2.5 m chamber holding 33 Neolithic burials in limestone clint landscape.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Mesa Verde — Cliff Palace North Kiva Ancillary in Colorado, Montezuma County, Mesa Verde, United States is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) anci…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Early Neolithic (~3807 BCE) · British Early Neolithic
The oldest engineered timber trackway in northern Europe, a 1.8-km raised walkway of oak planks pegged to transverse ash rails, dendro-dated to construction in the winter–spring of 3807 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Hebridean Late Neolithic
7-stone elliptical circle (21.6×18.9 m) on Loch Roag ridge south-east of Callanish I, with central ruined cairn.
