🇧🇴 Bolivia · Earthwork
Llanos de Mojos — Casarabe Forest Island Laguna Central East (Moxos East)
Casarabe (500–1400 CE) · Casarabe
Eastern forest island laguna of Casarabe in Mojos — 12 m mound on 18 ha island and 800 m causeway.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Mehrgarh Period I Courtyard Complex North — Northern Annex
Neolithic (7000-5500 BCE) · Mehrgarh Culture
Mehrgarh Period I Courtyard Complex North — Northern Annex in Balochistan, Kachi, Pakistan is a Neolithic (7000-5500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Mehrgarh Culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Hierakonpolis Locality HK6 Elite Cemetery Terrace — Northern Annex
Chalcolithic (3800-3100 BCE) · Naqada II-III
Hierakonpolis Locality HK6 Elite Cemetery Terrace — Northern Annex in Aswan, Kom Ombo, Egypt is a Chalcolithic (3800-3100 BCE) ancient village attributed to Naqada II-III.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Hierakonpolis Locality HK6 Elite Cemetery Terrace — Western Terrace
Chalcolithic (3800-3100 BCE) · Naqada II-III
Hierakonpolis Locality HK6 Elite Cemetery Terrace — Western Terrace in Aswan, Kom Ombo, Egypt is a Chalcolithic (3800-3100 BCE) ancient village attributed to Naqada II-III.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Mehrgarh Period I Courtyard Complex North — Eastern Outlier
Neolithic (7000-5500 BCE) · Mehrgarh Culture
Mehrgarh Period I Courtyard Complex North — Eastern Outlier in Balochistan, Kachi, Pakistan is a Neolithic (7000-5500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Mehrgarh Culture.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Sanganakallu
Southern Neolithic 3000–1000 BCE (Periods I–III) → Megalithic · Southern Neolithic (Bellary) — earliest Deccan farming
Southern Neolithic type-complex (c.3000–1000 BCE) on the granite hillocks east of Bellary — Sanganakallu–Kupgal cluster (206 ha survey) excavated 1946 by B.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Ancient village
Anuradhapura Abhayagiri North Dagoba Base
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Anuradhapura Abhayagiri North Dagoba Base in North Central, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Mehrgarh Period I Courtyard Complex North — Western Terrace
Neolithic (7000-5500 BCE) · Mehrgarh Culture
Mehrgarh Period I Courtyard Complex North — Western Terrace in Balochistan, Kachi, Pakistan is a Neolithic (7000-5500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Mehrgarh Culture.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Đồng Đậu
Đồng Đậu culture 1500–1200 BCE (Phùng Nguyên → Đồng Đậu → Gò Mun → Dong Son) · Phùng Nguyên succession (Vietic Red River) → Dong Son ancestor
Red River Phùng Nguyên succession site (c.1800–1200 BCE, Đồng Đậu culture 1500–1200) northwest of Hanoi — type-site for Đồng Đậu culture (Bùi Vinh's Phùng Nguyên → Đồng Đậu → Gò Mun sequence)…
🇵🇪 Peru · Cave
Guitarrero Cave
Lithic – Preceramic (c.12000–8000 BCE earliest; 8600 BCE cultigens) · Andean Lithic / Guitarrero tradition
Guitarrero Cave is a shallow limestone rockshelter on the west flank of the Cordillera Blanca above the Santa River at 2,580 m near Yungay, Ancash.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Phu Tho Phung Nguyen Hill
Early Bronze Age Phung Nguyen 2000–1500 BCE · Phung Nguyen culture — Red River early bronze (type-site)
Phu Tho Phung Nguyen Hill — type-site of Phung Nguyen culture (2000–1500 BCE, Vietnam's earliest Bronze Age) on Hong River hill 10 km Viet Tri, 60 km NW Hanoi, excavated 1961 by Hoang Van Khoan (then…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Adam
Vidarbha Iron Age 800–300 BCE → Maurya 300–187 → Satavahana 187 BCE–220 CE → Vakataka 250–300 CE · Vidarbha megalithic–Iron (Black-and-red) → Satavahana
Vidarbha Iron Age iron-smelting town (800 BCE–300 CE) near Nagpur — earliest tuyere smelting and Indo-Roman rouletted ware with 22 coin hoards.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Güzelova Höyük (Karasu Valley Mound)
Neolithic through Middle Bronze (5800–1500 BCE) · Erzurum Neolithic → Chalcolithic Karasau → EBA Kura-Araxes (Karaz)
Güzelova Höyük (Karasu Valley Mound) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Erzurum Province, Aşkale District, Karasu (Euphrates) valley, Turkey — Karasu/Euphrates headwater village documenting…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Mound
Sambaqui Figueirinha
Sambaqui (c.7000–1500 BCE) South-Central Brazilian Coast · Sambaqui – Camacho fishermen-collectors
Sambaqui Figueirinha near Jaguaruna, Santa Catarina, is a giant late Holocene shell mound (sambaqui) on the Imaruí–Garopaba coastal lagoon plain at 5 m asl.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Dangwada
Chalcolithic Kayatha 2400–1700 → Malwa 1700–1500 BCE → Historic · Kayatha–Ahar–Malwa–Jorwe Chalcolithic sequence
Malwa Chalcolithic mega-village (2100–1500 BCE) south of Kayatha — 8 ha type assemblage of painted Malwa ware with 200 houses per phase.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Harran Tell (Harran Plain)
Early Bronze Age through Ummayad Abbasid (c.3000 BCE–750 CE); EBA, MBA, Assyrian, Roman, Islamic · EBA → Assyrian Bit-Adini → Aramaean → Hellenistic-Roman Carrhae → Ummayad Islamic
Bibliographic Harran tell — EBA to Ummayad capital of moon-god Sin (Haran) under medieval beehive city (c.3000 BCE–750 CE).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Lahuradewa
Ceramic Neolithic IA (9000–7000) → Mesolithic-Neolithic IB–II (7000–3000) → Chalcolithic III (3000–1500 BCE) · Gangetic Ceramic Neolithic (Lahuradewa culture) → Sarayupar Chalcolithic
Earliest rice-cultivation site in South Asia (c.9000–2000 BCE) in the Sarayupar plain at Sant Kabir Nagar — 2.5 ha lakeside mound with 3.5 m deposit excavated 2001–06 by Rakesh Tewari (UP State…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Vădastra Tell (Vădastra Type-Site Terrace)
Middle Neolithic through Eneolithic (Boian → Vădastra → Gumelnița) · Boian → Vădastra → Gumelnița
Vădastra Tell (Vădastra Type-Site Terrace) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Olt County, Vădastra Commune, Danube terrace, Oltenia plain, Romania — Vădastra eponymous type-site — stratified…
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village
Castro de Baroña Coastal Annex Terrace — Western Terrace
Iron Age (800 BCE-100 CE) · Castro Culture
Castro de Baroña Coastal Annex Terrace — Western Terrace in Galicia, A Coruna, Spain is a Iron Age (800 BCE-100 CE) ancient village attributed to Castro Culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Kayatha
Chalcolithic Kayatha 2400–1700 BCE → Malwa 1700–1500 → Early Historic · Kayatha Chalcolithic → Ahar → Malwa → Sunga-Kushan-Gupta
Type-site of Malwa Kayatha Chalcolithic culture (2400–1700 BCE) on Choti Kali Sindh — earliest farming village in Malwa with five-period stratigraphy.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Zhaobaogou
Zhaobaogou 5400–4500 BCE → Hongshan 4700–2900 → Lower Xiajiadian · Zhaobaogou (Liao Neolithic, post-Xinglongwa)
Type-site for Zhaobaogou culture (c.5400–4500 BCE, post-Xinglongwa) on the Aohan plain adjacent to Xinglongwa near Chifeng — 1.5 ha village with 18 pit houses and rich artistic pottery, excavated…
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Samrong Sen
Samrong Sen Neolithic 1500–500 BCE → Bronze 500 BCE–200 CE → early Chenla · Samrong Sen (Mekong Neolithic rice, Austroasiatic Khmer ancestor?)
Oldest Khmer Neolithic mound and cemetery (c.1500 BCE–200 BCE, Samrong Sen culture) on the Tonle Sap west bank near Kampong Chhnang — 7 ha hill slope with 3 m shell-rich layers excavated 1901–02 by…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Mesa Verde Cliff Palace Tower House
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Mesa Verde Cliff Palace Tower House in Colorado, Mesa Verde, United States is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Khairadih
Chalcolithic (2000–1300) → Black-slipped/Iron (1300–600 BCE) → NBPW–Gupta (600 BCE–600 CE) · Middle Ganga Narhan–Khairadih → NBPW–Buddhist Ganga
Middle Ganga Chalcolithic–Iron Age village (c.2000 BCE–600 CE) on the Ghaghara–Ganga doab at Khairadih near Buxar/Ballia — excavated 1981–83 by Birendra Pratap Singh (BHU Banaras).