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CategoriesAncient villages

Ancient villages

The first farming settlements and the houses people lived in.

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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Stallings Island Mound

Late Archaic (Stallings phase, 3410–2730 BCE) · Stallings culture (Late Archaic, Southeastern US)

Type site of Stallings fiber pottery (3410–2730 BCE) — earliest ceramics in North America on Savannah River island.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Boncuklu Hoyuk Konya Plain Village

Early Neolithic · Konya Plain PPN

Boncuklu Hoyuk Konya Plain Village at Konya Plain, Karaman, Turkey is a Early Neolithic ancient village of the Konya Plain PPN tradition, built c.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Oylum Höyük Lower Town

Chalcolithic to Medieval (4000 BCE–1400 CE) · North Syrian → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Islamic

Oylum Höyük Lower Town is the 30-ha extra-mural city wrapping the 20-m citadel on the Kilis plain.

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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Cactus Hill

Pre-Clovis to Clovis · Pre-Clovis (Cactus Hill)

Sandy terrace pre-Clovis site (16,000 BCE) with blades beneath Clovis on Nottoway River, Virginia.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Erbaba Höyük

Late Neolithic (Hacilar I equivalent) · Beyşehir-Hacilar transition

Late Neolithic lakeside tell (c.6400–6000 BCE, with Chalcolithic reuse c.5500 BCE) on Beyşehir Lake terrace, excavated 1969–71 by Bordaz & Alpes team and later re-studied by Steadman/Arbuckle.

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🇨🇳 China · Ancient village

Great Henan Terrace South — Henan, Erlitou (54-45)

Classical (regional) · Classical

Great Henan Terrace South — Henan, Erlitou (54-45) at Henan, Erlitou, China is a Classical (regional) ancient village of the Classical tradition, built c.

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🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village

Irie Site

Late to Final Jomon 2000–500 BCE · Late–Final Jomon (Lake Toya)

Late–Final Jomon permanent settlement (c.2000–500 BCE) at Lake Toya, counterpart to Takasago cemetery — 1.2 ha Irie terrace with 50+ pit dwellings, large shell middens, and lakeside fishing weirs…

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🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village

Kharaysin Naviform Village Jordan

PPNA to PPNB · Jordanian Highlands PPN

Kharaysin Naviform Village Jordan at Zarqa, Kharaysin, Jordan is a PPNA to PPNB ancient village of the Jordanian Highlands PPN tradition, built c.

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🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village

Los Millares Fortified Settlement

Chalcolithic · Los Millares culture

Los Millares Fortified Settlement at Andalusia, Almería, Spain is a Chalcolithic ancient village of the Los Millares culture tradition, built c.

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🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village

Mureybet Mound Euphrates Deep Sequence

Natufian to PPNA · Natufian / PPNA

Mureybet Mound Euphrates Deep Sequence at Middle Euphrates, Raqqa, Syria is a Natufian to PPNA ancient village of the Natufian / PPNA tradition, built c.

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🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village

Odai Yamamoto I Site

Incipient Jomon (15000–10000 BCE) → Initial Jomon (10000–6000 BCE) · Incipient–Initial Jomon (Tsugaru)

Initial Jomon (Incipient) settlement (c.15000–13000 BCE) at Sotogahama, Tsugaru Peninsula — 0.7 ha terrace with earliest pottery in Japan (Odai Yamamoto I pottery, 16500 cal BP via AMS), ground…

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Oylum Höyük

Late Chalcolithic through Medieval; EBA III, MBA II, Hittite, Neo-Hittite, Assyrian · Syro-Anatolian; EBA Islahiye cluster → Hittite sphere → Neo-Hittite/Assyrian

37-m high Kilis plain tell (460×370 m) with EBA–Hittite–Neo-Hittite town and 30 ha buried lower town — frontier type-site.

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🇮🇳 India · Ancient village

Prakash

Savda–Malwa–Jorwe 1900–1000 BCE → Early Historic 300 BCE–300 CE · Savda-Chalcolithic → Malwa–Jorwe → Satavahana

Tapti Chalcolithic–Early Historic sequence (1900 BCE–300 CE) with Indo-Roman amphorae at Dhule ford.

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🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex

Tell el-Qaramel Horned Building

PPNA to Early Bronze · Middle Euphrates PPN

Tell el-Qaramel Horned Building at Hama, Qaramel, Syria is a PPNA to Early Bronze temple complex of the Middle Euphrates PPN tradition, built c.

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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell ʿAbr 3

Early Neolithic PPNA (c.9600–8800 BCE) · PPNA Euphrates village culture (with Jerf el Ahmar and Tell Qaramel)

PPNA farming village with painted communal building and rye-cultivation proof, drowned by Tishrin Dam.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Mezraa-Teleilat Pre-Pottery Levels

Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Early Bronze (10500–3000 BCE) · PPNA–PPNB → Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk

Mezraa-Teleilat Pre-Pottery Levels are the basal 6 m beneath the Halaf–Ubaid mound on the Euphrates left bank 5 km south of Birecik.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Gedikli Karahöyük

Early Bronze Age I–III through Middle Bronze Age (c.3000–1500 BCE) · Islahiye EBA (Amanus) with Early Transcaucasian influence → Hittite

Amanus cemetery-tell with 200+ EBA pithos burials and EBA–MBA houses — Islahiye plain mortuary type-site.

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🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village

Wadi Faynan Early Farming Ghwayr

PPNB to Early Neolithic · Faynan PPN

Wadi Faynan Early Farming Ghwayr at Wadi Faynan, Ghwayr I, Jordan is a PPNB to Early Neolithic ancient village of the Faynan PPN tradition, built c. 8300 BCE for long early neolithic early copper awl.

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🇧🇴 Bolivia · Pyramid

Wankarani Mound-Pyramid (Highland Bolivia)

Early Horizon to Early Intermediate (Late Formative) · Wankarani (highland Altiplano)

Altiplano tell-pyramid at Wankarani — 80×60 m artificial village mound 8 m high c.1200–270 BCE at 3950 m, highest Andean mound village before Tiwanaku.

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🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village

Baia-Hamangia Tell

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 —…

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Kuruçay Höyük

Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic to Early Bronze · Hacilar-Kuruçay-Beycesultan sequence

Neolithic to Early Bronze lakeside tell with 13 levels (c.6200–3800 BCE, + EBA), bridging Hacilar (Level 6 early pottery) to Chalcolithic fortified town.

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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Kazel (Sumur/Simyra)

MB → LBA Egyptian/Hittite → Iron Phoenician → Persian → Hellenistic (2000–300 BCE) · Amorite → Egyptian (Amarna) → Hittite → Phoenician

Amarna Sumur (350×325 m oval) — Egyptian garrison, Hittite destruction, Phoenician plain capital in Akkar.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Giricano Tepe South Lower Town

Early Bronze to Middle Bronze (3000–1550 BCE) · Ninevite V → Hurrian → Old Babylonian → Mittani

Giricano Tepe South Lower Town is the 4.2-ha south terrace below the main Early Bronze mound on the upper Tigris west of Ziyaret Tepe.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Kaletepe Obsidian Workshop

Palaeolithic to Neolithic · Central Anatolian

Kaletepe Obsidian Workshop at Cappadocia, Nevşehir, Turkey is a Palaeolithic to Neolithic ancient village of the Central Anatolian tradition, built c. 7000 BCE for obsidian workshop gollu dag trade.