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5 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Mesolithic (7000–2800) → Chalcolithic (2800 BCE–500 BCE) · Mesolithic Mewar microlithic → Ahar-Chalcolithic (Mewar)
Type-site for Mewar Mesolithic (c.7000–500 BCE) on the Mahasati dune above the Kothari River west of Bhilwara — India's largest excavated Mesolithic habitation (1967–70 by V.N. Misra and L.S.
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Mesolithic to Early Historic (8000 BCE – 1000 CE) · Mesolithic Narmada Hunter-Gatherers, Chalcolithic Malwa, Historic tribal (Gond)
Narmada quartzite 30 shelters with buffalo-hunt microlith art 8 ka–historic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Epipalaeolithic to Aceramic Neolithic · Central Anatolian Epipalaeolithic (Kebaran-like) → PPNA
Epipalaeolithic to Early Neolithic rockshelter and open-air spring-site (c.14,000–7000 BCE) on limestone spur at Pınarbaşı, type-site for Central Anatolian hunter-gatherer sedentism before…
🇮🇱 Israel · Cave
Upper Palaeolithic to Natufian (c.35,000–11,000 BP) · Levantine Aurignacian/Ahmarian → Kebaran → Natufian
North Carmel cave (c.35–11 ka, Kebaran–Natufian microliths, Ronen excavations) near Nahal Sefunim.
🇨🇩 Congo (DRC) · Rock art
Later Stone Age · Rainforest foragers (pre-Bantu)
10 m stratified rainforest sequence proving equatorial forest foraging since 40 ka (charcoal, palm nuts, phytoliths, toolkit).
