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Excavation ongoing places tagged “cliff”

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Ancient villages2 Aqueducts1 Archaeological wonders1 Hilltop settlements1 Hydraulic works1

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🇮🇷Iran1 🇯🇴Jordan1 🇲🇱Mali1

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cliff3 bandiagara1 bead1 dogon1 hydraulic1 megalithic1 ppnb1 sasanian

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🇲🇱 Mali · Archaeological wonder

Bandiagara Escarpment (Land of the Dogon)

Iron Age to Living (700 BCE–present) · Toloy / Tellem / Dogon

150-km 400-m cliff with 700 Tellem caves 11th–16th c, granaries, Dogon villages and Toloy archaeology.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village

Baja

Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (c.7400–6800 BCE) · PPNB (southern Levantine highland)

PPNB cliff village (c.7400–6800 BCE, siq access, 2500-bead necklace, painted plaster) 14 km N Petra.