🇮🇳 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.
🇸🇾 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.
🇹🇷 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.
🇹🇷 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.
🇧🇴 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.
🇷🇴 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 —…
🇹🇷 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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Zeytinli Bahçe Step Trench East
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Chalcolithic (9700–3500 BCE) · PPN → Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic
Zeytinli Bahçe Step Trench East is the eastern step-trench sounding of Zeytinli Bahçe on the Euphrates left bank 5 km north of Birecik — the Neolithic step-trench key from PPN (9700 BCE) to Late…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Gumelniţa Tell
Late Chalcolithic (Karanovo VI–Gumelniţa) · Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI–Varna complex
Type-site of Gumelniţa culture (c.4700–3950 BCE, Late Chalcolithic), 4-m tell on Danube Borcea island dominating copper-trade axis: two-storey Tell houses with plastered benches, Varna-grade copper…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Mahasna
Predynastic Naqada to Early Dynastic to Old Kingdom · Naqada → Early Dynastic Egyptian
Predynastic to Old Kingdom village and cemetery cluster (c.4000–2686 BCE) behind Abydos, key to Abydos hinterland settlement pattern: massive Naqada II–III cemeteries (Mahasna cemetery, 400+ graves)…
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Yarmuth (Yarmut)
Early Bronze Age II–III (c.3000–2350 BCE) with MB II and Iron I–II reuse · EBA III Canaanite urban (Proto-Canaanite) — Jordan Valley city-state network
16 ha EBA III walled palace-city (2700–2350 BCE) with Palace B2 (6000 m²) — largest EBA town in Israel (Miroschedji).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Türlü Höyük
EB I–III → MBA → LBA → Iron Age (3000–700 BCE) · Syro-Anatolian EBA (Euphrates tradition) → Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite
EB walled town (3000–2300 BCE) with 20 ha lower town — Carchemish-Aleppo plain urban gateway, Mitanni/Hittite contested.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Ancient village
Central Siem Reap Terrace A — Siem Reap (54-11)
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Central Siem Reap Terrace A — Siem Reap (54-11) at Siem Reap, Cambodia is a Iron Age (regional) ancient village of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for terrace and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Naqada (Nubt / Ombos)
Predynastic (Naqada I Amratian to III Protodynastic) · Naqada (Upper Egyptian protodynastic)
Type-site of Predynastic Upper Egypt — Naqada I–III cultures (c.4000–3000 BCE) that unified Egypt: eponymous cemeteries N7000+ graves at Naqada, Ballas, Nubt town (gold-worker's town of Seth).
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Korekawa Site
Middle to Late Jomon 3500–1700 BCE · Middle–Late Jomon (Hachinohe region)
Middle–Late Jomon lacquer production village (c.3500–1700 BCE) on the Nii River terrace at Hachinohe, Aomori — 3 ha with 80+ pit dwellings, large midden, and lacquer-ware workshop that produced 400+…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo Pintado (Red House)
Chaco Bonito to Post-Chaco (Late Pueblo II–III) · Chaco (ancestral Pueblo) → post-Chaco San Juan
Southeasternmost Chaco great house outlier (c.1050–1120 CE, Bonito II–III) on Pintado Mesa overlooking Rio Chaco headwater — eastern gate of Chaco world.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Höyücek Höyük
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic · Burdur-Antalya (Hacilar-associated)
Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic lakeside shrine-village (c.6500–5500 BCE) in Burdur Lake District, famous for 'Martyrium' burnt shrine phase with mother-goddess and leopard reliefs, and hoard of…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Kurgan
Mykhailivka (Mikhaylovka) — Yamnaya type site
Lower Eneolithic → Repin → Classic Yamnaya (Pit Grave) · Sredny Stog / Trypillia → Repin → Yamnaya (Pit Grave culture)
Yamnaya triple settlement on Dnieper (3600–2600 BCE) — Lower Trypillian fort, Middle Repin–Yamnaya ditch and Upper Yamnaya town with adjacent Pit Grave kurgans, birthplace of Yamnaya culture.
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Pokrovka — Srubnaya (Timber Grave) Cemetery
Late Bronze Age; Srubnaya post-Catacomb · Catacomb → Srubnaya (Timber Grave) → Andronovo influence
Ilek River Srubnaya cemetery (1800–1200 BCE) with timber-framed ‘srub’ grave chambers, grooved pottery and Late Bronze steppe pastoral expansion.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tall Hisban (Heshbon)
EB through Mamluk; Iron II and Byzantine peaks · EB dolmen-builders → Iron Moab/Ammon → Nabataean → Roman/Byzantine Esbus → Mamluk
Biblical Heshbon on Dead Sea escarpment — Iron Moabite/Ammonite town to Hasmonaean, Roman Esbus, Byzantine mosaics and Mamluk farm, 15 m within 150×110 m mound.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Hemudu Archaeological Site
Hemudu culture 5500–3300 BCE · Hemudu (Hangzhou Bay maritime rice farmers)
Waterlogged neolithic pile-dwelling settlement (5500–3300 BCE) on Yao River coastal plain, type-site of Hemudu culture famous for earliest Chinese rice cultivation (paddy with wooden plough),…
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
New Nara Platform A — Nara, Asuka (54-24)
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
New Nara Platform A — Nara, Asuka (54-24) at Nara, Asuka, Japan is a Iron Age (regional) ancient village of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Outer Nara Village I — Nara, Asuka (54-32)
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Outer Nara Village I — Nara, Asuka (54-32) at Nara, Asuka, Japan is a Iron Age (regional) ancient village of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for village and associated settlement.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Aswad
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B · Damascene PPNB (Aswadian)
PPNB mega-village (8700–7500 BCE, ~18 ha at peak) in the Damascus basin/ Ghuta, irrigated by the Barada, considered the place of the earliest fully domesticated emmer wheat and barley in the world.