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6 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age Moated 600 BCE–500 CE → Chenla · Iron Age Isan–Khmer moated (Mekong–Tonle) → Chenla
Iron Age moated town and cemetery (c.600 BCE–500 CE) at Phum Snay inland from the Tonle Sap northwest — linear earthwork 15 km with moat ditch and 21 burials with agate–carnelian beads, bronze…
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Yayoi 300 BCE–300 CE (Middle Yayoi zenith) · Yayoi Saga — Northern Kyushu rice chiefdom (Himiko candidate)
Yoshinogari Saga Moated Settlement — Japan's largest Yayoi moated village and Himiko Yamatai candidate (300 BCE–300 CE, 40 ha inner enclosure) on Yoshinogari hills at Chikugo River north Kyushu,…
🇹🇭 Thailand · Submerged site
Dvaravati to Early Ayutthaya (c. 700–1400 CE) · Srivijaya / Dvaravati / Thai
Srivijayan moated port chain 8th–13th c. – brick wharves at –0.5 m under Songkhla lagoon paddy.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Submerged site
Funan to Khmer (2nd c. BCE – 1200 CE) · Funan (Austroasiatic) / Indianized / Khmer
Funan moated canal port 3 km² – brick quay 100 m buried 2 m under Mekong delta paddy.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Yayoi Early 300 BCE → Middle Yayoi 300 CE · Yayoi Sanyo — Ongagawa Yayoi with Mumun immigration
Teraji Okayama Settlement — Yayoi moated paddy village (300 BCE–300 CE) on Ashimori River terrace 15 km west Okayama, Sanyo Inland Sea plain, excavated 1990s.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian / Nodena phase 1000–1541 CE · Mississippian Nodena
Moat-walled Mississippian Casqui town visited by de Soto 1541.
