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CategoriesAncient villages

Ancient villages

The first farming settlements and the houses people lived in.

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🇯🇵Japan

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Afis (Afis / Hazrek) — Royal Platform Quarter

Early Bronze IV through Iron Age (EB IV, Iron Hazrek, Neo-Assyrian) · EB Syrian → Aramaean Hazrek → Neo-Assyrian

Tell Afis (Afis / Hazrek) — Royal Platform Quarter is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Idlib Governorate, Idlib District, Orontes valley east, Syria — Aramaean Hazrek kingdom capital — Zakkur…

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🇪🇨 Ecuador · Earthwork

Upano — Villano Valley Lidar Gardens at Villano River West (Upano West)

Regional Development (200–600 CE) · Upano (Kilimope) / Huapula fringe

Western raised fields of Upano at Villano River — 120 beds 40×8 m and 2 km canal.

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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Quarai Pueblo (Mission Quarai)

Pueblo III–IV → Spanish mission (1100–1670 CE) · Pueblo III–IV → Spanish mission (1100–1670 CE)

Quarai Pueblo (Mission Quarai) in New Mexico, Torrance County, Salinas, Manzano foothills, United States is a Pueblo III–IV → Spanish mission (1100–1670 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo III–IV →…

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder

Boxgrove Palaeolithic Site – Eartham Pit

Lower Palaeolithic, MIS 13 interglacial (Boxgrove interglacial = Cromerian-ish) · Homo heidelbergensis hunter-scavengers

500,000-year Homo heidelbergensis butchery floor with refitted Acheulean axes and tibia.

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🇮🇱 Israel · Tell

Tel Miqne (Ekron)

Early Bronze through Iron Age II; EBA, LB Canaanite, Iron I–II Philistine, Assyrian 7th c. · LB Canaanite → Sea Peoples Philistine → Ekronite (Philistine) kingdom → Neo-Assyrian vassal

Ekron — Philistine pentapolis capital with 115-press oil industry and Achish inscription (Iron I–II, 1200–603 BCE).

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Büklükale (Kapalıkaya / Kızılırmak Crossing)

Early Bronze to Iron Age (EBA, Hittite Empire, Early Iron) · Hattian → Hittite → Early Iron Age Central Anatolian

Büklükale (Kapalıkaya / Kızılırmak Crossing) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Kırıkkale Province, Karakeçili District, Kızılırmak bend, Turkey — Hittite military base and westernmost…

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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Pecos Pueblo (Aquio)

Pueblo II–IV → Spanish contact (1100–1838 CE) · Pueblo II–IV → Spanish contact (1100–1838 CE)

Pecos Pueblo (Aquio) in New Mexico, San Miguel County, Pecos Valley, Sangre de Cristo, United States is a Pueblo II–IV → Spanish contact (1100–1838 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo II–IV → Spanish…

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🇮🇳 India · Ancient village

Burzahom Archaeological Site

Neolithic I Aceramic (3000–2800) → Neolithic II Ceramic (2800–2000) → Megalithic II (2000–1500) → Early Historic III · Kashmir Neolithic (Burzahom culture)

Northernmost Neolithic settlement in India (c.3000–1500 BCE) on Karewa lacustrine terrace near Srinagar — aceramic to ceramic Neolithic (Period I pits) → megalithic (Period II).

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🇮🇳 India · Ancient village

Mahagara

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.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village

Meare Lake Village – Somerset Iron Age Fen Cluster (Pool)

Iron Age British Late (Glastonbury tradition) · Somerset Levels Iron Age Britons

300–50 BCE fen twin villages—28 Iron Age houses on Meare Pool artificial islets.

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🇨🇴 Colombia · Museum

Calima Archaeological Park

Preclassic – Late Intermediate (c.1500 BCE–1600 CE) Ilama – Yotoco – Sonso · Calima (Ilama–Yotoco–Sonso)

The Calima Archaeological Park (El Topacio, Dariel Museum) at Lago Calima, Valle del Cauca, is Colombia's type-sequence for West Andean prehistory (1500 BCE–1600 CE) at 1,490 m on the Western…

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🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient village

Barton Ramie

Preclassic – Classic (c.900 BCE–950 CE) Late Formative to Classic Maya · Maya (Lowland)

Barton Ramie is the classic lowland Maya household archaeology micro-settlement along the Belize River near Georgeville, Cayo, at 65 m.

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city

Theadelphia — Eastern Buried Village at Bat el-Harun East (Fayum West-Central East)

Ptolemaic to Roman (300 BCE – 350 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman

Eastern granary quarter of Theadelphia at Bat el-Harun — 60 m houses at –2 m and 45 m canal.

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🇮🇷 Iran · Tell

Chakhmaqlu Tepe

Chalcolithic (4500–3500 BCE) · NE Iran Chalcolithic

Chalcolithic (4500–3500 BCE) tell of NE Iran Chalcolithic in North Khorasan, Jajarm (c.4500 BCE).

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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Hawikuh Pueblo (Hawikku)

Pueblo IV → Spanish contact (1200–1680 CE) · Pueblo IV → Spanish contact (1200–1680 CE)

Hawikuh Pueblo (Hawikku) in New Mexico, Cibola County, Zuni, Six Middle Villages, United States is a Pueblo IV → Spanish contact (1200–1680 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo IV → Spanish contact…

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🇯🇵 Japan · Archaeological wonder

Torihama Shell Midden

Incipient→Early→Middle Jomon 10000–1000 BCE (Jomon hunter-fisher-gatherer with peat preservation) · Jomon (Wakasa Bay Incipient–Early Jomon, Neolithic without agriculture)

Early–Middle Jomon shell midden and wetland village (c.12000–3000 BP, 10000–1000 BCE) at Torihama lowland wetland near Lake Mikata, Wakasa, Fukui — 2 ha peat midden excavated 1962–85 by Wakasa Mikata…

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🇮🇳 India · Ancient village

Ahar

Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas 3000–1500 BCE; Iron Age and Early Historic overlay · Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic → Iron Age

Type-site of Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic (3000–1500 BCE) — 'copper city' Tambavati on Ahar River at Udaipur.

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🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village

Gò Mun

Gò Mun 1200–700 BCE (Đồng Đậu → Gò Mun → Dong Son) · Red River Gò Mun (Vietic Austroasiatic) — last pre-Dong Son Bronze

Phùng Nguyên successor culture site (c.1200–700 BCE, Gò Mun culture) near the Phùng Nguyên village group on the Red River western terrace — type-site excavated 1969 by Ha Van Tan, bridging Đồng Đậu…

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🇺🇸 United States · Tell

Kin Kletso (Yellow House / Chaco McElmo Great House)

Pueblo III (McElmo/Chacoan late, 1125–1170 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (McElmo-Chacoan late)

Kin Kletso (Yellow House / Chaco McElmo Great House) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in New Mexico, San Juan County, Chaco Canyon, north mesa below Pueblo Alto, United States — McElmo-phase…

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🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village

La Draga – Early Neolithic Lake Dwelling (Banyoles, Catalonia)

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.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village

Flag Fen Southern Extension & Mustdyke Timber Causeway (Fengate, Peterborough)

Late Bronze Age (Ewart Park, 1300–900 BCE) · Fenland Late Bronze (Deverel–Rimbury, 1300–900 BCE)

380-m southern Flag Fen causeway extension (1220–1120 BCE) — double-post drove way to Whittlesey.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Köşk Höyük (Bor Plain Neolithic Mound)

Late Aceramic Neolithic through Early Bronze (6200–3000 BCE) · Central Anatolian Neolithic → Early Chalcolithic (Bor Plain)

Köşk Höyük (Bor Plain Neolithic Mound) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Niğde Province, Bor District, Central Anatolian plateau, Turkey — Neolithic-Chalcolithic village mound with plastered…

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Alişar Höyük (Alişar Village Mound)

Chalcolithic through Byzantine (Chalcolithic, EBA Karum, Hittite, Phrygian, Byzantine) · Anatolian Chalcolithic → Assyrian Colony (karum) → Hittite → Phrygian

Alişar Höyük (Alişar Village Mound) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Yozgat Province, Sorgun District, Kanak Su valley, Turkey — Fortified karum-colony and Hittite administrative centre on…

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🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell

El Cóporo (Ocampo)

Epiclassic (c.500–900 CE); Classic 500–650 CE, Epiclassic fortified 700–900 CE · Northern frontier Chalchihuites–Tunal–Bajío (Mesoamerican northern periphery; Chichimec interaction)

Bajío frontier mesa pyramid (c.500–900 CE) with ballcourt-terrace and copper bells — INAH Cóporo Tunal outpost.