Partially excavated ancient villages

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village

Sancreed Beehive Hut — Chapel Euny

Iron Age · Dumnonii

Sancreed Beehive Hut — Chapel Euny in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village

Cott Valley Hut Settlement — St Just

Iron Age · Dumnonii

Cott Valley Hut Settlement — St Just in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii.

🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient village

Ntereso & Birimi (Ghana) – Kintampo Complex Villages

Later Stone Age Kintampo · Kintampo culture

Kintampo culture villages (2100–1400 BCE) with figurative terracotta 'cigars', ground stone axes and pioneering pearl millet + cowpea cultivation evidence (earliest in Ghana).

🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient village

Matarrah — Jarmo Hinterland Village

Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7000 BCE) · Jarmo-related

Matarrah — Jarmo Hinterland Village in Kirkuk Governorate, Iraq is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7000 BCE) ancient-village attributed to Jarmo-related.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village

Gunwalloe Hut Circles — Loe Bar

Bronze Age · Cornish Bronze Age

Gunwalloe Hut Circles — Loe Bar in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age ancient-village attributed to Cornish Bronze Age.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village

Brough of Birsay

Pictish (7th–9th c.) and Norse (9th–12th c.) · Pictish / Norse (Earldom of Orkney)

Tidal islet at Birsay linked by causeway, famous for Pictish and Norse settlements overlapping. Pictish symbol stones and Norse earldom complex (9th–11th c.) with broch foundations underneath.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village

Kaya Jibana — Kilifi Badlands

Mijikenda (16th c. CE) · Mijikenda (Jibana)

Kaya Jibana — Kilifi Badlands in Kilifi County, Kenya is a Mijikenda (16th c. CE) ancient-village attributed to Mijikenda (Jibana).

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Iris

Middle Bronze to Byzantine (c.1800 BCE–600 CE) · MBA Canaanite → Late Bronze coastal → Iron → Hellenistic

Jableh plain farming tell (1800 BCE–600 CE) with Hellenistic amphora kiln north of Jableh.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village

Godrevy Headland Hut Circles

Bronze Age · Cornish Bronze Age

Godrevy Headland Hut Circles in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age ancient-village attributed to Cornish Bronze Age.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village

Thimlich Ohinga – Enclosure Stone Town (Lake Victoria)

Late Iron Age · Bantu / Luo (Kabwa)

Largest of 138 Lake Victoria dry-stone enclosures (15th–19th c), UNESCO 2018. Concentric walls 1–4.2 m high ×51–152 m diam with internal compounds, shafts, and livestock pens.

🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village

Ghoraife — Damascus Basin Neolithic Hamlets

PPNB (8200–7000 BCE) · PPNB Ghoraife

Ghoraife — Damascus Basin Neolithic Hamlets in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria is a PPNB (8200–7000 BCE) ancient-village attributed to PPNB Ghoraife. Hamlet scatter 0.5 ha with pits near Ghoraife wadi.

🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village

Gwoza Hills Settlements

Iron Age to present (500 BCE–present) · Mandara / Wandala / Kanuri

Mandara terrace villages with 10 km stone terraces and iron forges.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village

Porthgwarra Fogou — St Levan

Iron Age · Dumnonii

Porthgwarra Fogou — St Levan in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii. Small coastal fogou with corbelled chamber near Logan Rock headland.

🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site

Atlit-Yam

PPNB (6900–6300 BCE) · PPNB Neolithic

Pre-Pottery Neolithic B mega-village (6900–6300 BCE) submerged 300–400 m offshore after post-glacial sea rise, with stone wall 150 m, paved well 5.5 m deep (earliest seawall and well), megalithic…

🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings

Pueblo I–III (600–1300 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi)

Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings (600–1300 CE) with 600 sites including Cliff Palace (150 rooms, 23 kivas) under sandstone alcoves, transitioning from pithouses to masonry pueblos before…

🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village

Gajiganna Culture Complex (Borno)

Chad Basin Late Stone Age · Gajiganna culture

Urn-field mound complex defining Gajiganna culture bridging Saharan and sub-Saharan pastoralism before Kanem.

🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city

Chan Chan

Chimú · Chimú (Chanchan)

Largest adobe city in world: capital of Chimú Kingdom (850–1470) covering 20 km² with 10 walled citadels (ciudadelas) with friezes of pelicans and lattice, reservoirs, adobe walls.