🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Besnagar
Mauryan–Sunga–Satavahana–Gupta 600 BCE–500 CE · Magadhan → Sunga → Satavahana → Gupta
Ancient Vesanagara city mound at Betwa-Bes confluence — Sunga–Satavahana twin capital of Vidisha (600 BCE–500 CE).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ahar
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas 3000–1500 BCE; Iron Age and Early Historic overlay · Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic → Iron Age
Type-site of Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic (3000–1500 BCE) — 'copper city' Tambavati on Ahar River at Udaipur.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Nagda
Malwa Chalcolithic 1700–1400 BCE → Avanti Early Historic 700–500 BCE · Malwa Chalcolithic → Avanti (Ujjain) Early Historical
Malwa hillock at Nagda Junction — Banerjee/B.B. Lal's Malwa type (round huts, buff ware, 1.6 km NW of station).
🇮🇳 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.
🇮🇳 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.
🇮🇳 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.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Kudatini (Ash Mound)
Southern Neolithic 2800–1200 BCE → Megalithic 1000 BCE · Southern Neolithic Ash Mound → Megalithic
Giant 15 m ash mound (2800–1200 BCE) at Kudatini Ballari — three-burnt dung lenses with megalithic circle on summit.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Nevasa
Lower Paleolithic 400 Ka → Chalcolithic Jorwe 1400–1000 BCE → Megalithic → Satavahana → Medieval · Soan Acheulian → Jorwe Chalcolithic (Deccan) → Satavahana
Deccan textbook sequence on Pravara (400 Ka handaxes → 1400 BCE Jorwe village) — 130-house Chalcolithic with urn child burials.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Gilund Modiya Magara Mound
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas 3000–1700 BCE · Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic — Mewar Plain Banas Basin
Gilund Modiya Magara Mound — largest Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic settlement (3000–1700 BCE) in Banas Basin, locally Modiya Magari (bald mound), 25×18 ha dual mound excavated 1959–60 by B.B.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Adam Wainganga Mound
Chalcolithic 1300–1200 → Early Iron Age 1200–300 BCE · Vidarbha Chalcolithic → Iron Age transition — Adam facies
Adam Wainganga Mound — Iron Age Chalcolithic–Megalithic transition site (1300–300 BCE) on Nag River at Kuhi, first recognized Chalcolithic-to-Iron Age mound in Vidarbha, excavated 1988–89 and…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Kudakanahalli
Southern Neolithic 3000–1400 BCE → Megalithic 1000 BCE–300 CE · Southern Neolithic Ash Mound Culture (Karnataka–Andhra)
Southern Neolithic ash mound (3000–1400 BCE) in Tumkur granite — 12 m burnt dung vitrified ash with cattle pen sequence.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ahar Dhulkot Mound
Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic 3000–1500 BCE · Ahar-Banas Ahar ware — type-site defining culture
Ahar Dhulkot Mound — eponymous Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic type-site (3000–1500 BCE) on Ahar River at Udaipur's eastern edge, excavated 1961–62 by H.D. Sankalia (Deccan College) and R.C. Agrawal.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Dangwada Malwa Settlement
Chalcolithic Kayatha–Malwa 2400–1400 BCE · Malwa Chalcolithic — Dangwada phase with Kayatha substratum
Dangwada Malwa Settlement — Malwa Chalcolithic village (1650–1400 BCE) on Malwa plateau west of Ujjain, excavated 1978–80 and 1992 by V.S.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Tekkalakota
Southern Neolithic 3000–1200 BCE → Megalithic–Iron 1000 BCE–100 CE · Southern Neolithic → Megalithic (Bellary)
Ballari granite hill Neolithic–Megalithic village (3000 BCE–100 CE) with burnished ware and iron cists on dolerite axe ridge.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Nagda Chambal Settlement
Chalcolithic Kayatha → Malwa 1800–1000 BCE · Malwa Chalcolithic Chambal facies
Nagda Chambal Settlement — Malwa–Late Chalcolithic stratified site (1800–1000 BCE) on Chambal River at Nagda, excavated 1955–56 by N.R. Banerjee and K.V. Soundararajan (ASI).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Akhnur (Manda-Akhnur)
Early Harappan 3300–2600 → Mature Harappan 2600–1900 BCE → Historic Kushan–Gupta · Indus Harappan (northernmost) → Kushan Historic
Akhnur–Manda — northernmost Harappan site (2600–1900 BCE) 28 km NW Jammu on Chenab at Pir Panjal foothills, excavated 1976–82 by J.P. Joshi (ASI Jammu).
🇮🇳 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).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Prakash
Savda–Malwa–Jorwe 1900–1000 BCE → Early Historic 300 BCE–300 CE · Savda-Chalcolithic → Malwa–Jorwe → Satavahana
Tapti Chalcolithic–Early Historic sequence (1900 BCE–300 CE) with Indo-Roman amphorae at Dhule ford.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Padri
Early Harappan Padri 3300–2600 → Sorath Mature 2600–1900 → Late Harappan 1900–1800 BCE · Sorath Harappan (Possehl) coastal variant — Early to Late Harappan
Padri — Sorath Harappan village (3300–1800 BCE) on Gulf of Khambhat at Talaja, Saurashtra, excavated 1990–93 by V.S. Shinde (Deccan College).
