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CategoriesAncient villages
The first farming settlements and the houses people lived in.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Megalithic Iron Age (500 BCE–100 CE) → Early Historic Sangam Chera 300 BCE–300 CE · Megalithic Tamil → Sangam Early Tamil (Early Historic South India)
Megalithic–Early Historic industrial village and cemetery (c.500 BCE–300 CE) on the Noyyal River near Erode — 40 ha settlement + 40 cairn-circle Megalithic burial ground with menhirs, excavated…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Bronze Age 902 BCE · Late Bronze Age Somerset Levels herders
Late Bronze Age hurdle trackway (902 BCE, 450 m) at Withy Bed Copse, Shapwick Heath — Late Bronze revival of Levels tradition.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic – Early Bronze (4000–3000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Kerman
Chalcolithic – Early Bronze (4000–3000 BCE) tell of Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Kerman in Kerman Province, Kerman Plain (c.4000 BCE).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Neolithic 3240 BCE · Late Neolithic Somerset Levels farmers
Neolithic timber trackway (3240 BCE, 2 km) at Meare Heath, longest Neolithic timber structure in Britain, successor to Sweet Track.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Halaf (8500–5500 BCE) · PPNB–Halaf (8500–5500 BCE)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Halaf (8500–5500 BCE) tell of PPNB–Halaf (8500–5500 BCE) in Şanlıurfa Province, Middle Euphrates (c.8500 BCE).
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pueblo III (Sinagua-Ancestral Puebloan, 1100–1250 CE) · Sinagua–Ancestral Puebloan (Cohonina/Sinagua with Ancestral Puebloan)
Wupatki Pueblo (Wupatki National Monument — Sinagua Great House) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Arizona, Coconino County, Flagstaff–Little Colorado, Wupatki Basin, Sunset Crater vicinity,…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Chalcolithic – Early Dynastic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic–Early Dynastic
Late Chalcolithic – Early Dynastic (3500–2600 BCE) tell of Late Chalcolithic–Early Dynastic in Ilam Province, Deh Luran Plain (c.3500 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic – Early Chalcolithic (6500–5000 BCE) · Cappadocian Late Neolithic
Late Neolithic – Early Chalcolithic (6500–5000 BCE) tell of Cappadocian Late Neolithic in Nevşehir Province, Cappadocia (c.6500 BCE).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Medio Period (Casas Grandes, 1205–1340 CE) with Viejo substrate · Casas Grandes (Chihuahua Culture / Mogollon–Paquimé)
Paquimé (Casas Grandes) — Medio Period Great House and Mound is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Chihuahua State, Casas Grandes Municipality, Rio Casas Grandes valley, Mexico — Largest northern…
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Hemudu culture 6500–5000 BCE (Early → Middle → Late Hemudu) · Hemudu (Lower Yangzi Neolithic, Austroasiatic? → later Wu-Yue)
Hemudu culture waterlogged village (c.6500–5000 BCE, 7000–5800 cal BP) in Yuyao, Zhejiang — 3 ha Neolithic settlement between two hills 7 km northeast of Hemudu, excavated 2004–07 by Zhejiang…
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Roman Iron Age (Angles) · Germanic Angles (North Germanic)
Thorsberg moor (Thorsberger Moor, Thorsberg Mose) peat bog (18 m asl, 54°38′14″N 09°46′07″E 54.6373,9.7687) in Anglia where Angles deposited votive offerings for four centuries, with 100 m oak…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Late Neolithic through Late Chalcolithic (5500–4200 BCE) · Hamangia → Varna → KGK VI (Kodžadermen-Gumelnița-Karanovo VI)
Provadia-Solnitsata (The Salt Pit) — Eneolithic Salt Production Tell is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Varna Province, Provadia District, Provadiyska River valley, Bulgaria — Oldest…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Mississippian (Lohmann 1050–1100 through Moorehead 1200–1275, Stirling 1050–1150) · Mississippian (Cahokia Stirling phase capital)
Cahokia Mounds — Mound 72 (Beaded Burial and Woodhenge Sector) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Illinois, St.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (3500–3000 BCE) · Proto-Elamite / Late Uruk
Late Chalcolithic (3500–3000 BCE) tell of Proto-Elamite / Late Uruk in Tehran Province, Rey Plain (c.3400 BCE).
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Late Neolithic through Eneolithic (Boian → Gumelnița, 5000–3900 BCE) · Boian → Gumelnița (Kodžadermen-Karanovo VI) Eneolithic
Sultana-Malu Roșu (Sultana Tell and Eneolithic Flat Necropolis) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Călărași County, Mânăstirea Commune, Mostiștea Lake terrace, Danube plain, Romania —…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Classic (Chalchihuites, 350–850 CE, Epiclásico) · Chalchihuites (Zacatecas) → Coyotlatelco contact
La Quemada (Chicomostoc) — Chalchihuites Hilltop Fortress is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Zacatecas State, Villanueva Municipality, Malpaso valley, Cerro La Quemada, Mexico — Hilltop…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Early Bronze (3500–2200 BCE) · Early Transcaucasian (Kura-Araxes)
Early Bronze (3500–2200 BCE) tell of Early Transcaucasian (Kura-Araxes) in West Azerbaijan, Urmia Basin (c.3500 BCE).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age, British Middle–Late (Hod Hill + Glastonbury ware) · Iron Age Somerset wetland Britons (Durotriges–Dumnonii border)
250 BCE–50 BCE Iron Age peat islands—90 wattle houses on Somerset artificial crannogs.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Early Bronze (3000–2500 BCE) · Early Bronze (Arisman–Sialk IV)
Early Bronze (3000–2500 BCE) tell of Early Bronze (Arisman–Sialk IV) in Isfahan Province, Natanz (c.3000 BCE).
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pueblo II–III (Chacoan outlier 1110–1125, Mesa Verde 1150–1275) · Ancestral Puebloan (Chacoan outlier → Mesa Verde)
Aztec West Ruin (Aztec Ruins National Monument — West House) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in New Mexico, San Juan County, Animas River, Aztec town, North San Juan basin, United States —…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Late Norse (2700 BCE–14th c CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age Pictish → Norse (Scalloway Jarlshof horizon)
4,000-yr Shetland settlement (2700 BCE–14th c) — 10-m broch with 4 wheelhouses overlain by Norse longhouses at Sumburgh.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze I–III (3000–2300 BCE) · Early Bronze Western Anatolian
Early Bronze I–III (3000–2300 BCE) tell of Early Bronze Western Anatolian in Afyon Province, Sandıklı Plain (c.3000 BCE).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B through Late Bronze (7550–1200 BCE) four mounds · PPNB → Pottery Neolithic → Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → Middle Assyrian
Tell Sabi Abyad (Balikh Valley Neolithic Mound Cluster) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Raqqa Governorate, Balikh River valley, Tell Abyad District, Syria — Four-mound Neolithic village…
🇮🇷 Iran · Fortress
Iron Age III (900–600 BCE) · Mannaean–Scythian
Iron Age III (900–600 BCE) fortress of Mannaean–Scythian in Kurdistan Province, Saqqez (c.750 BCE).
