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193 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇴🇲 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.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic (Late Pottery Neolithic, 5300–5000 BCE) · Northwest Arabian Neolithic (Uwayrid pastoral)
52 Uwayrid North mustatils (5320–5070 BCE) — northernmost and only bichrome-basalt–sandstone variants.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Neolithic (6500–3500) → Chalcolithic (3500–2000) → Iron Age · Vindhyan Belan Neolithic (Koldihwa–Mahagara)
Complementary Belan Valley Neolithic–Chalcolithic settlement (c.6500–2000 BCE) 5 km downstream of Koldihwa on the Belan River near Mahagara village — excavated together with Koldihwa (1975–77) by G.R.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village
Early Neolithic, Cardial–Epicardial (5300 BCE) · Cardial Neolithic fisher-farmers (Iberian Early Neolithic)
5300 BCE Cardial pile dwelling on Lake Banyoles—earliest lake village in Mediterranean with bows and dairy.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Cemetery
Neolithic 4000–3500 BP Da But→Phung Nguyen mosaic · Man Bac — Da But hunter to East Asian Neolithic admixture (Austroasiatic migration)
Man Bac Cemetery — Neolithic cemetery (c.4000–3500 BP, Phung Nguyen fringe) at Yen Mo karst 25 km S Ninh Binh, excavated 1999–2007 Australian–Vietnamese (Oxenham).
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Neolithic to Bronze Age · Arabian Neolithic pastoralists
15,000 stone structures on black lava—gates, kites and pendants of Neolithic Arabia (7000–5000 BCE).
🇬🇷 Greece · Tell
Late Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (5500–2200 BCE) · Late Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (5500–2200 BCE)
Sitagroi in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Drama Plain, Sitagroi village, Greece is a Late Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (5500–2200 BCE) settlement attributed to Late Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA…
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Archaeological wonder
Late Neolithic to medieval (1800 BCE–11th c CE) · Tichitt Culture / Sanhaja pastoralists
400 km intermediate cuesta with Neolithic hamlets, karkur tumuli and copper axes bridging Tichitt–Adrar Neolithic diffusion corridor.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic → Halaf → Northern Ubaid (6200–4800 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid transitional (North Mesopotamian painted pottery)
Halaf mega-village (5800–5400 BCE, 20 ha) — largest Halaf site with Death Pit feasting/cannibalism horizon.
🇰🇭 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…
🇬🇬 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (c.3500–3000 BCE) · Channel Island Neolithic (Norman-Breton passage grave)
Guernsey's finest passage grave (10.5 m passage) with 'Guardian' anthropomorphic carving on capstone — unique Channel Island art.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient village
Jeitun Neolithic 6000–5000 BCE → Pessejik phase · Jeitun culture (Central Asian Neolithic)
Type-site for Neolithic Jeitun culture (c.6000–5000 BCE) in the Kopet Dag piedmont north of Ashgabat — 10 house settlement (0.8 ha) excavated 1952–62 by Vadim Masson, the earliest permanent farming…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Neolithic → EB → MBA Qarqur → Iron → Classical (8000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic → EB → MBA Qarqur → Iron → Classical (8000 BCE–1400 CE)
Tell Qarqur in Hama Governorate, Orontes, Ghab Valley, Syria is a Neolithic → EB → MBA Qarqur → Iron → Classical (8000 BCE–1400 CE) settlement attributed to Neolithic → EB → MBA Qarqur → Iron →…
🇲🇷 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.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Southern Neolithic (2000–1200) → Iron overlap (1200–500 BCE) → Early Historic · Southern Neolithic → Deccan Megalithic–Iron
Southern Neolithic–Iron Age transitional town (c.2000 BCE–500 BCE) at Hallur on the Tungabhadra–Malaprabha interfluve near Haveri — excavated 1965–76 by M.S.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Neolithic (3000–1500) → Chalcolithic (1500–1000 BCE) · Eastern Neolithic (Chhotanagpur–Mayurbhanj)
Eastern India Neolithic–Chalcolithic type-site (c.3000–1000 BCE) at Kuchai, Mayurbhanj plateau — Neolithic ground-stone axe factory and village excavated 1972–78 by B.K. Thapar and D.K.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Southern Vietnam Neolithic 2300–1200 BCE (An Son phase) · Southern Neolithic (Mekong) → Bronze transitional
Mekong Neolithic rice mound (2300–1200 BCE) north of delta — An Sơn with raised-floor village.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic to Early Modern (c.4000 BCE–1600 CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age → Early Medieval Gaelic
Mythic omphalos of Ireland — 182 m ceremonial hill with Lough Lugh summit lake, barrows and Bealtaine fire site.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Neolithic (Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) · Late PPNB steppe-hunting tradition
Eastern rim kite chain of the Jordanian Harrat basalt plain (880 m, 31°02′21″N 37°30′00″E) where basalt peneplain meets limestone Hamad: 18 desert kites arrayed along 17 km N-S per Jibal…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic (c.5000–4000 BCE) · Armorican Neolithic (Brittany)
Europe's tallest upright menhir (9.5 m, 150 t) — Brittany granite giant with twin basal bosses, lightning-shorn.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic) · Northern Arabian Late Neolithic (Hisma facies)
Northern mustatil concentration on the Hisma sandstone plateau (1,050 m, 28.50°N 36.80°E) north of Tabuk, extending the Harrat-based mustatil province south-eastward into sandstone.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Southern Neolithic (2500–1000) → Megalithic Iron (1000–300 BCE) → Mauryan → Satavahana · Southern Neolithic → Megalithic → Mauryan
Neolithic–Megalithic–Mauryan mound (c.2500 BCE–500 CE) at Maski, Raichur Doab — hillock settlement (12 ha) with Southern Neolithic grey ware, Megalithic iron burials and the decisive Maski Rock Edict…
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Ancient village
Neolithic 2300–1500 → Bronze 1500 BCE Samrong Sen type-site · Tonle Sap Neolithic — Samrong Sen circular moat tradition (Mekong)
Samrong Sen Kampong Chhnang — Neolithic circular mound settlement (2300–1200 BCE, 1500 BP early metal) on sand terrace at Tonle Sap southern rim 30 km NW Kampong Chhnang, excavated 1923–26 by H.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (Arabian Humid Period) · Northwest Arabian Neolithic pastoralists
52 Late Neolithic mustatils (5000–4500 BCE) — northernmost Saudi platform ritual field.
