🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Must Farm Bronze Age Settlement
Late Bronze Age (~1000–800 BCE) · British Late Bronze Age fenland communities
900 BCE stilt village burned and silt-sealed—Britain's Pompeii with pots still stacked.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village
La Draga – Early Neolithic Lake Dwelling (Banyoles, Catalonia)
Early Neolithic, Cardial–Epicardial (5300 BCE) · Cardial Neolithic fisher-farmers (Iberian Early Neolithic)
5300 BCE Cardial pile dwelling on Lake Banyoles—earliest lake village in Mediterranean with bows and dairy.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Hemudu Archaeological Site
Hemudu culture 5500–3300 BCE · Hemudu (Hangzhou Bay maritime rice farmers)
Waterlogged neolithic pile-dwelling settlement (5500–3300 BCE) on Yao River coastal plain, type-site of Hemudu culture famous for earliest Chinese rice cultivation (paddy with wooden plough),…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient village
Alvastra Pile Dwelling
Middle Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Funnel Beaker (TRB)
Neolithic pile dwelling (c.3000 BCE) of the Funnel Beaker culture on the former shore of Lake Vättern, with piles preserved in peat, pottery, flint and cemeteries.