This article is about the archaeological term for an abandoned settlement. For the term for a more recently abandoned settlement, see Ghost town. For a list of settlements that fell into terminal decline and became uninhabited, see Lost city.
An abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. In many countries, and throughout history, thousands of villages have been deserted for a variety of causes. Abandonment of villages is often related to epidemic, famine, war, climate change, economic depressions, environmental destruction, or deliberate clearances.
