🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Gusir Hoyuk Tigris Upper
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Upper Tigris PPN
Gusir Hoyuk Tigris Upper at Siirt, Upper Tigris, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic ancient village of the Upper Tigris PPN tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Harbet Suvar PPN Village Tek Tek
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Taş Tepeler PPN
Harbet Suvar PPN Village Tek Tek at Şanlıurfa, Harbet Suvar, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic ancient village of the Taş Tepeler PPN tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Kilise Tepe
Late Chalcolithic through Byzantine; Hittite peak · Cilician Plain → Hittite Kizzuwatna frontier → Rough Cilicia Luwian
Göksu terrace tell with Chalcolithic–Byzantine sequence — Hittite pithos warehouses (Ura?), Luwian seals and buried industrial zone on plateau road.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Rojdi
Sorath Harappan 2500–1700 BCE (Rojdi A→B→C) · Sorath Harappan (Possehl) — interior Saurashtra variant
Rojdi — Sorath Harappan farming village (2500–1700 BCE) 15 km SE Gondal, interior Saurashtra, excavated 1982–86 by G.L. Possehl and B. Raval (Penn–Gujarat State Dept).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Samsat Höyük Submerged Citadel Approach
Bronze Age to Commagene Kingdom (3000 BCE–72 CE) · Bronze Age Kummuh → Hittite → Neo-Hittite Kummuh → Commagene (Mithridatic)
Samsat Höyük Submerged Citadel Approach is the drowned approach ramp and lower town of Samosata — capital of Hittite Kummuh and later Commagene Kingdom under Antiochus I.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Shubayqa Natufian Bread Site Azraq
Natufian · Azraq Natufian
Shubayqa Natufian Bread Site Azraq at Azraq Basin, Shubayqa, Jordan is a Natufian ancient village of the Azraq Natufian tradition, built c.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Arbid Southern Ridge
Halaf to Mitanni (6000 BCE–1300 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → Ninevite V → Akkadian → Mittani
Tell Arbid Southern Ridge is the 14.2-ha southern ridge extension of Tell Arbid on the Wadi Jaghjagh between the Khabur and Tigris headwaters.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Cobá
Preclassic to Postclassic 300 BCE–1450 CE (peak Classic 600–800, Terminal 800–1100) · Maya (eastern Lowlands, Sian Ka'an sphere)
Vast lowland Maya city of ~80 km² with ~6,500 structures linked by 16 white-road sacbeob (raised plaster causeways totalling 70 km, longest Sacbe 1 100 km to Yaxuná near Chichén Itzá, 10 m wide),…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Kosk Hoyuk Bor Plain
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze · Cappadocia Chalcolithic
Kosk Hoyuk Bor Plain at Niğde, Bor Plain, Turkey is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze ancient village of the Cappadocia Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Narhan
Narhan I (2000–1400) → Narhan II (1400–800) → NBPW III (800–600 BCE) · Narhan / Sarayupar Chalcolithic → NBPW Iron Age
Type-site for Narhan culture (c.2000–600 BCE) on the Ghaghara alluvium in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh — white-painted black-and-red ware (BPB) and later black-slipped ware mound excavated 1984–89 by…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Tuqan Southern Rampart
EB IV to Iron Age (2500 BCE–800 BCE) · EB IV Amorite → Middle Bronze Yamhad → Late Bronze Hittite/Mittani → Iron Age Luwian
Tell Tuqan Southern Rampart is the 12-m-high earthen rampart sealing the 35-ha Middle Bronze walled city 35 km east of Maarrat al-Numan.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Wadi Faynan WF16
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (c.11600–10200 cal BP) · PPNA (Natufian → PPNB transition)
PPNA megasite (c.11.6–10.2 ka, Structure O75 20 m amphitheatre, 40 pithouses) at Faynan oasis.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Beidha Neolithic Village Petra Corridor
PPNB to Late Neolithic · PPNB Jordan
Beidha Neolithic Village Petra Corridor at Ma'an, Beidha, Jordan is a PPNB to Late Neolithic ancient village of the PPNB Jordan tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Can Hasan Neolithic Mounds
Chalcolithic to Neolithic · Central Anatolian
Can Hasan Neolithic Mounds at Karaman, Can Hasan, Turkey is a Chalcolithic to Neolithic ancient village of the Central Anatolian tradition, built c.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Horvat Galil Late Natufian Hamlet
Late Natufian · Galilean Natufian
Horvat Galil Late Natufian Hamlet at Upper Galilee, Israel is a Late Natufian ancient village of the Galilean Natufian tradition, built c.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Stallings Island Mound
Late Archaic (Stallings phase, 3410–2730 BCE) · Stallings culture (Late Archaic, Southeastern US)
Type site of Stallings fiber pottery (3410–2730 BCE) — earliest ceramics in North America on Savannah River island.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Boncuklu Hoyuk Konya Plain Village
Early Neolithic · Konya Plain PPN
Boncuklu Hoyuk Konya Plain Village at Konya Plain, Karaman, Turkey is a Early Neolithic ancient village of the Konya Plain PPN tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Oylum Höyük Lower Town
Chalcolithic to Medieval (4000 BCE–1400 CE) · North Syrian → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Islamic
Oylum Höyük Lower Town is the 30-ha extra-mural city wrapping the 20-m citadel on the Kilis plain.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Cactus Hill
Pre-Clovis to Clovis · Pre-Clovis (Cactus Hill)
Sandy terrace pre-Clovis site (16,000 BCE) with blades beneath Clovis on Nottoway River, Virginia.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Erbaba Höyük
Late Neolithic (Hacilar I equivalent) · Beyşehir-Hacilar transition
Late Neolithic lakeside tell (c.6400–6000 BCE, with Chalcolithic reuse c.5500 BCE) on Beyşehir Lake terrace, excavated 1969–71 by Bordaz & Alpes team and later re-studied by Steadman/Arbuckle.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Great Henan Terrace South — Henan, Erlitou (54-45)
Classical (regional) · Classical
Great Henan Terrace South — Henan, Erlitou (54-45) at Henan, Erlitou, China is a Classical (regional) ancient village of the Classical tradition, built c.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Irie Site
Late to Final Jomon 2000–500 BCE · Late–Final Jomon (Lake Toya)
Late–Final Jomon permanent settlement (c.2000–500 BCE) at Lake Toya, counterpart to Takasago cemetery — 1.2 ha Irie terrace with 50+ pit dwellings, large shell middens, and lakeside fishing weirs…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Kharaysin Naviform Village Jordan
PPNA to PPNB · Jordanian Highlands PPN
Kharaysin Naviform Village Jordan at Zarqa, Kharaysin, Jordan is a PPNA to PPNB ancient village of the Jordanian Highlands PPN tradition, built c.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village
Los Millares Fortified Settlement
Chalcolithic · Los Millares culture
Los Millares Fortified Settlement at Andalusia, Almería, Spain is a Chalcolithic ancient village of the Los Millares culture tradition, built c.