🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Bronze Age Ancient Village — Haryana Annex 402
Bronze Age · Bronze Age
Bronze Age ancient-village at Haryana.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Neolithic Ancient Village — Hidalgo Annex 431
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic ancient-village at Hidalgo.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient village
Classical Ancient Village — Huanuco Annex 448
Classical · Classical
Classical ancient-village at Huanuco.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
El Morro — Inscription Rock Pueblo Shrine Waterhole
Ancestral Pueblo (1275–1350 pueblo) + Spanish/American inscriptions 1605–1906 · Zuni / Ancestral Pueblo → Oñate Spanish 1605 to Beale wagon 1857
El Morro Atsinna excavated by Watson Smith 1940s, Oñate 1605 'pasó por aquí' oldest European inscription SW US.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Hittite Ancient Village — Aomori Annex 405
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite ancient-village at Aomori.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Inscription House — Kayenta Cliff Storage Spring
Kayenta Ancestral Pueblo (1250–1300 CE) + inscriptions 1661 Nieves, 1930s cowboys · Kayenta / Navajo / Spanish
Inscription House closed since 1968, Kayenta 1270 pueblo with Spanish 1661 nieves inscription.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Wupatki — Wukoki Pueblo and Ballcourt
Sinagua (1120–1250 CE) post-Sunset Crater · Sinagua / Ancestral Puebloan
Wupatki excavated by Hargrave 1930s, Sinagua pueblos linked to Sunset Crater ash mulching.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chaco Canyon — Kin Bineola West Outlier
Chacoan (950–1140 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan Chacoan
Kin Bineola excavated by Vivian 1960s, Chaco road to south Bonito via South Gap.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Montezuma Castle — Beaver Creek Original 5-Storey Cliff Palace
Sinagua (1100–1350 CE) · Sinagua (Southern Sinagua)
Montezuma excavated by Mearns 1890, no Aztec link, 45 rooms 5 tiers.
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso · Ancient village
Kirikongo (Mouhoun Bend) – Iron Age Mounds
Iron Age · Bwa / Mouhoun
Tell cluster of 13 mounds (100 BCE–1600 CE) showing egalitarian agrarian villages resisting hierarchy. Iron smelting, shea, cattle, beaded ceramics; ancestor compound mound model vs state-formation.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Akoris (Tihna el-Gabal) – Rock-cut Tombs & Mines
Old Kingdom to Roman · Egyptian
Cliff sanctuary with rock-cut Hathor/Nemesis chapel, pink limestone quarries supplying Amarna, and 12th Dyn rock-tombs of nomarch Wahka with nautical graffiti. Miners' camp and Roman road station.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient village
Jericho – Tell es-Sultan
Natufian to Bronze Age (12,000 BCE onward; tower c.8300 BCE) · Natufian → PPNA/PPNB → Canaanite
Tell with Natufian through Bronze Age layers including Pre-Pottery Neolithic A stone tower (c.8300 BCE) and wall – among earliest monumental architecture and fortification. Biblical Jericho.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient village
Cinyps (Wadi Ka'am / Khoms Emporion)
Greek / Punic / Roman · Greek then Punic / Roman
Hill of the Graces where Greek Cinyps colony (520 BCE) briefly rivalled Cyrene before Libyan expulsion. Later Tripolitanian olive villa cluster feeding Leptis port; terraces and cisterns.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo Bonito (Chaco Canyon)
Pueblo II–III · Ancestral Puebloan / Chacoan
Greatest great house of Chaco: D-shaped 800-room complex with 32 kivas, planned in stages 850–1150 CE, aligned to cardinal directions and Chacoan road system radiating 60 km.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Hovenweep National Monument
Pueblo III 1200–1300 CE · Ancestral Puebloan
Six Pueblo tower villages 1200–1300 CE, Square Tower.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Casa Malpais Archaeological Park and National Historic Landmark
Mogollon–Ancestral Puebloan 1260–1350 CE · Mogollon–Ancestral Puebloan
60-room basalt Great House 1260–1350 CE, Great Kiva solar calendar.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Mogollon Tularosa 1275–1300 CE · Mogollon
46 rooms in five caves 1275–1300 CE, Mogollon.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Betatakin — Keet Seel Surrounding Rock Shelter
Kayenta Ancestral Pueblo (1250–1300 CE) plus earlier Basketmaker 300 CE · Kayenta Ancestral Pueblo (Hisatsinom)
Keet Seel excavated by Fewkes 1917 and Dean dendro 1970s, 155 rooms, trail 8 km.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Canyon de Chelly — Mummy Cave Cliff Ruin
Basketmaker to Pueblo III (300–1300 CE) plus Navajo later · Kayenta Ancestral Puebloan
Mummy Cave excavated by Fewkes and Morris 1920s, mummy found 1882 with slave.