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Tagspainted-pottery
12 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Yangshao Early–Middle 5000–3000 BCE · Yangshao (Banpo phase) / Yellow River millet farmers
Yangshao culture matriarchal agricultural village (4800–4300 BCE) on Chan River terrace east of Xi'an, 50,000 m² with preserved moat (deepest 6 m), 45 semi-subterranean pit-houses, 6 pottery kilns,…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Late Neolithic → Halaf → Ubaid (6000–4300 BCE) · Halaf (North Mesopotamian painted) → Northern Ubaid
Halaf hamlet (c.6000–4300 BCE, 175 m) — classic Halaf tholoi type-site on Diyarbakır piedmont (Watson/LeBlanc 1968).
🇹🇷 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.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Chalcolithic (4800–3500 BCE, Cucuteni A–B) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Cucuteni A–B)
Hilltop tell Cetățuia at Cucuteni, Iași, eponym of Cucuteni culture (western Cucuteni-Trypillia), excavated 1884 by Teodor Burada and 1909–10 by Hubert Schmidt.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Early Neolithic Starčevo-Körös-Criș · Starčevo (SE Neolithic)
Type-site of the Starčevo culture (6200–5400 BCE), the first Neolithic farmers to colonize Southeast Europe from Anatolia, bridging Anatolian Neolithic to Vinča and Linearbandkeramik.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Shangshan culture 9000–7000 BCE → Kuahuqiao (8500–7700) → Hemudu · Shangshan (Lower Yangzi earliest Neolithic, Pre-Yangshao)
Type-site for Shangshan culture (c.11000–9000 BP, 9000–7000 BCE) at Huangzhai near Pujiang, Zhejiang — earliest Neolithic in the Lower Yangzi (currently oldest pottery in Zhejiang), excavated 2001–06…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) · Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE)
Trușești in Botoșani County, Trușești, Jijia Plain, Romania is a Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) settlement attributed to Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) culture.
🇹🇷 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…
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Neolithic Yangshao (5800–3000 BCE; classic 5000–3000 BCE) · Yangshao (Dadiwan culture, Painted Pottery)
Dadiwan is the type site of Yangshao Dadiwan culture (5800–3000 BCE) on the Wei River terrace — 50-ha Neolithic village with 200+ house pits, painted pottery, and the 290-m² Palace F901 (4000 BCE,…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Halaf, Ubaid (6100–5500 BCE) · Halaf culture
Low mound outside Mosul lending name to Late Halaf painted ware zenith, excavated 1933 by Max Mallowan and John Cruikshank Rose and 1976 by Ismail Hijara.
🇬🇷 Greece · Tell
Early to Middle Neolithic · Sesklo Culture
Classic Early to Middle Neolithic tell (c. 6000–4800 BCE) near Volos, type-site of Sesklo culture with early painted pottery, megaron-like houses and fortification wall.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pottery Neolithic to Early Bronze · Central Anatolian Chalcolithic
Three mounds (Canhasan I, II, III) spanning Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic-Early Bronze (c.6000–3000 BCE) on the south Konya Plain, bridging Çatalhöyük to Mersin-Yumuktepe.
