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Mysteria

🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Walnut Canyon — Island Trail Cliff Dwellings

Sinagua (1125–1250 CE) · Sinagua

Walnut Canyon excavated by Fewkes and Colton 1930s, Sinagua canyon rim and canyon.

🇺🇸 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.

🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village

Nausharo — Harappan Transitional Colour Pottery Phase

Harappan Transitional (2800–2600 BCE Nausharo I–III) · Amri-Nal → Kili Gul Mohammad → Harappan

Nausharo excavated by Jarrige, painted pottery transition and figurine workshop.

🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Mimbres — Galaz Ruin Mimbres Classic Pueblo

Mimbreños Classic (1000–1150 CE) Mimbres Black-on-white pottery · Mogollon Mimbres (Mogollon)

Mimbres excavated by Cosgrove 1920s, 800 Mimbres bowls with fish, human scenes.

🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Tuzigoot — Clarkdale Hill Pueblo Remnant

Sinagua (1125–1400 CE) Hohokam-Sinagua blend · Sinagua

Tuzigoot excavated by Caywood & Spicer 1933–34, hill pueblo over marsh.

🇧🇫 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.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Çatalhöyük

Neolithic to Chalcolithic (PPNB-derived) · Anatolian Neolithic (Catalhoyuk East/West)

Largest Neolithic proto-city (7500–5700 BCE) with 18 settlement levels, mud-brick houses entered via roofs, wall paintings, bull bucrania and earliest landscape painting. Population up to 8,000.

🇵🇸 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.

🇨🇳 China · Ancient village

Majiabang

Neolithic Majiabang (7000–5800 BCE) · Majiabang culture (Taihu Lower Yangtze rice)

Majiabang is the type site of Majiabang culture (7000–5800 BCE) — earliest Lower Yangtze rice paddy village with pile-dwelling houses, jade, and Hemudu-type black pottery on the Taihu plain.

🇱🇾 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.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Ancient village

Kantarodai

Iron Age to Early Historic (1000 BCE–300 CE) · Tamil megalithic to early Buddhist (Jaffna Dravidian)

Kantarodai is an Iron Age cemetery (1000 BCE–300 CE) north of Jaffna, a 2-ha field of 60 votive mini-stupas (1–2 m) over megalithic urn burials plus Tamil-Brahmi settlement (300 BCE).

🇺🇸 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.

🇨🇳 China · Ancient village

Shuangdun

Neolithic Shuangdun (7300–5600 BCE) · Shuangdun culture (Huai River painted pottery, carved symbols)

Shuangdun is Shuangdun culture's type site (7300–5600 BCE) on the Huai River — 10-ha village with stamped pottery with 600+ carved symbols (proto-writing, 7300 BCE).

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient village

Orlat

Sogdian–Kangju (200 BCE–300 CE) · Kangju–Sarmatian to Sogdian (Orlat plaques)

Orlat is the Sarmatian–Kangju cemetery with famed Orlat bone plaques — carved battle and hunting scenes linking Sogdiana to Steppe nomads, 4 kurgans (8 m high).