🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient village
Qermez Dere
Terminal Natufian / Khiamian to PPNA (12,200–10,500 BCE) · North Mesopotamian PPNA (Proto-Neolithic piedmont)
North Iraq PPNA village with radial spoke houses and pillar cult building foreshadowing Göbekli.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Çadır Höyük (Sorgun)
Late Chalcolithic through Byzantine; EBA II-III, Hittite, Phrygian, Byzantine · Central Anatolian; Late Chalcolithic, EBA, Hittite Empire, Phrygia
Pleiades Bronze-Iron Age plateau tell (240×140 m) with Chalcolithic to Hittite-Phrygian stratigraphy on Kanak Su, Yozgat — type-site for plateau continuity.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Pikimachay Cave (Pikimachay Ayacucho)
Pleistocene? contested 20,000 BP + secure Early Holocene 9,000 BCE – Formative 1800 BCE · Pacaicasa – Ayacucho Preceramic → Wari?
Deep limestone cave 30 m entrance, 13 m depth in Ayacucho basin: stratified sequence spanning Pleistocene to Formative with contested earliest layers (Pikimachay phase 20,000–12,000 BP lithic…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Polyanitsa Platoto
Late Chalcolithic (c.4500–4200 BCE); KGK VI complex (Kodžadermen–Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI) · KGK VI Chalcolithic (Balkan Late Copper Age) Ludogorie facies
Ludogorie Chalcolithic fortified tell (c.4500–4200 BCE) with KGK VI burnt horizons and double ditch — Todorova.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Barnhouse Stone Age Village
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2500 BCE) · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Late Neolithic village on Loch of Harray with 15 houses and ceremonial hall Structure 8 facing the Stones of Stenness.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Karkamış (Carchemish)
Early Bronze Age through Iron Age II (c.3000–717 BCE); Neolithic substratum · EBA–MBA Euphrates town → Hittite viceroyalty → Neo-Hittite Luwian-Aramaean
80 ha Euphrates tell — Hittite viceregal capital and Neo-Hittite sculpture city on Turkish-Syrian border (c.3000–717 BCE).
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Ovcharovo Tell
Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE) · Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE)
Ovcharovo Tell in Targovishte Province, Ovcharovo village, Bulgaria is a Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE) settlement attributed to Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE) culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Pauni
Vidarbha Megalithic 1100–300 BCE → Maurya 300–187 → Sunga–Satavahana 187 BCE–250 CE → Vakataka 250–500 CE · Vidarbha Megalithic → Mauryan → Satavahana → Vakataka (Vidarbha Early Historic)
Vidarbha fortress-city Padmavati on Wainganga (1100 BCE–300 CE) — 4 km rampart with two Satavahana stupas (38 m) and megalithic-to-Mauryan continuity.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Thornborough Moor Trackway (Thornborough Mire, North Yorkshire)
Early Bronze Age (Beaker–Early Bronze, 2200 BCE) · British Early Bronze (Beaker–Thornborough henge communities)
30-m Early Bronze mire-plank trackway (2210 BCE) by Thornborough Henges — henge processional wetland bridge.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Asharna
EB → MBA → LBA → Iron (3000–700 BCE) · Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Neo-Hittite Tunip
Tell Asharna in Hama Governorate, Orontes Valley, Asharna plain, Syria is a EB → MBA → LBA → Iron (3000–700 BCE) settlement attributed to Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Neo-Hittite Tunip culture.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Yoshinogari Saga Moated Settlement
Yayoi 300 BCE–300 CE (Middle Yayoi zenith) · Yayoi Saga — Northern Kyushu rice chiefdom (Himiko candidate)
Yoshinogari Saga Moated Settlement — Japan's largest Yayoi moated village and Himiko Yamatai candidate (300 BCE–300 CE, 40 ha inner enclosure) on Yoshinogari hills at Chikugo River north Kyushu,…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Taradih Bihar Neolithic Settlement
Neolithic 2100–1600 → Chalcolithic 1600–1000 BCE · South Bihar Neolithic — Taradih facies (Magadha Neolithic)
Taradih Bihar Neolithic Settlement — Neolithic settlement (2100–1000 BCE) 3 km south Bodh Gaya on Falgu River, excavated 1991–94 by A.K. Prasad (Magadha University, Bodh Gaya Circle).
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient city
Harunotsuji (Iki)
Yayoi 300 BCE–300 CE (Ikikoku under Wei Zhi Wa federation) · Yayoi Iki–Tsushima maritime (Wa – Wei Himiko federation)
Wei Zhi Ikikoku maritime capital (300 BCE–300 CE) at Harunotsuji Iki — 100 ha with 2 km moat, 47 Han mirrors and plaza warehouse.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Tomb
Malagana
Yotoco–Malagana (c.500 BCE–500 CE) and Sonso (c.500–1550 CE) · Malagana–Yotoco–Sonso (Calima sphere)
Malagana at El Bolo, Palmira, Valle del Cauca (970 m) is infamous for the 1992 sugar-cane slurry that exposed a Yotoco–Malagana cemetery (500 BCE–500 CE) and led to the wholesale looting of ~4 tonnes…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Tanis (Sân el-Hagar)
Third Intermediate (21st–22nd Dynasty) capital; Late Period · 21st Dynasty Tanite → Libyan 22nd Dynasty → Saite → Greek
Delta Third Intermediate capital (177 ha) built entirely from Pi-Ramesses spolia — 21st dynasty walled city with intact royal gold burials, biblical Zoan.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
An Khe Paleolithic Site
Lower Paleolithic 800 ka → Hoabinhian late Pleistocene · Vietnamese Paleolithic — Ba River Acheulean-like (An Khe facies) predating Hoabinhian
An Khe Paleolithic Site — Lower Paleolithic chopper–chopping tool site (c.800 ka Acheulean-like bifaces) on Ba River terrace at An Khe 50 km E Pleiku, Gia Lai highland pass, discovered 2014…
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Non Nok Tha
Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age 2500 BCE–200 CE · Non Nok Tha culture (Isan Bronze Age, Ban Chiang contemporary)
Neolithic–Bronze Age mortuary mound (c.2500–200 BCE) at Non Nok Tha, Khon Kaen — 1 ha stratified mound with 250+ burials in four phases, excavated 1966–68 by Donn Bayard (U Otago) and Sood…
🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient village
Campen Plank Road – Emsland Bog Trackway (Landegge)
Early Iron Age (Hallstatt C) · Ems-Hunte Iron Age (Pre-Roman)
1.2-km split-oak corduroy (668 BCE) across Campen Moor — earliest Emsland Bohlenweg.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Senuwar
Neolithic (2500–2000) → Chalcolithic (2000–1300) → Iron Age (1300–600 BCE) · Vindhyan–Kaimur Chalcolithic (Senuwar culture)
Multi-period Chalcolithic–Neolithic mound (c.2500–600 BCE) on Kudra River at foot of Kaimur scarp near Sasaram, Bihar — 3.2 ha with 6.5 m deposit excavated 1986–90 by B.P. Singh (BHU).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Teleilat Ghassul
Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) · Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE)
Teleilat Ghassul in Balqa Governorate, Jordan Valley, Dead Sea N, Jordan is a Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) settlement attributed to Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Pietrele Tell
Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) · Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE)
Pietrele Tell in Teleorman / Giurgiu region, Danube plain, Pietrele village, Romania is a Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) settlement attributed to Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Yon Mound and Village
Middle Woodland to Mississippian (100 BCE–1450 CE) · Swift Creek → Weeden Island → Fort Walton (late Mississippian)
Middle Woodland Swift Creek to Fort Walton Mississippian mound-village (100 BCE–1450 CE) on Apalachicola River terrace: flat-topped platform 6 m high (45×30 m) with ramp to plaza, adjacent burial…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Lindenmeier Site
Folsom Paleo-Indian (10,600 – 10,200 BCE) · Folsom
Lindenmeier Site in Colorado, United States is a Folsom Paleo-Indian (10,600 – 10,200 BCE) ancient village attributed to Folsom culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Abada
Samarra through Ubaid 3 (c.5500–4100 BCE); Samarra, Hajji Muhammad, Ubaid 3 · Samarra (Choga Mami) → Hajji Muhammad → Ubaid 3 Hamrin facies
Samarra–Ubaid transition village (c.5500–4100 BCE) with tripartite houses and Iran–south assimilation — Hamrin Samarra outpost.