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🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ceramic Neolithic IA (9000–7000) → Mesolithic-Neolithic IB–II (7000–3000) → Chalcolithic III (3000–1500 BCE) · Gangetic Ceramic Neolithic (Lahuradewa culture) → Sarayupar Chalcolithic
Earliest rice-cultivation site in South Asia (c.9000–2000 BCE) in the Sarayupar plain at Sant Kabir Nagar — 2.5 ha lakeside mound with 3.5 m deposit excavated 2001–06 by Rakesh Tewari (UP State…
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Pengtoushan culture 7500–6000 BCE → Zaoshi → Tangjiagang → Chengtoushan · Pengtoushan (Middle Yangzi earliest Neolithic)
Type-site for Pengtoushan culture (c.7500–6000 BCE, 9000–8000 BP) on the Li River plain near Li County — earliest permanent village in the Middle Yangzi (Hunan), contemporary with Peiligang and…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Neolithic (5500–3500) → Chalcolithic–copper (3500–1300 BCE) · Vindhyan Belan Neolithic–Chalcolithic (Tokwa culture)
Southern Belan Neolithic–Chalcolithic site (c.5000–1300 BCE) at the Vindhya–Ganga junction near the Belan–Tons confluence in Mirzapur district — Tokwa excavated 2000–02 by J.N. Pal and M.C.