Name
|
Location
|
Culture
|
Period
|
Comment
|
Ref
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Tell Abu Hureyra
|
Mesopotamia
|
Natufian culture
|
c. 11,000 BCE – 7,500 BCE
|
|
[1]
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Tell Qaramel
|
Syria, Levant
|
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
|
c. 10,890 – 8,780 BCE
|
Preceded by the Epipaleolithic Natufian settlement.
|
[2]
|
El Khiam
|
Jordan Valley, Levant
|
Khiamian
|
c. 10,200 – 8,800 BCE
|
|
Mureybet
|
Mesopotamia
|
Khiamian
Mureybetian
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
|
c. 10,200 – 9,700 BCE
c. 9,700 – 9,300 BCE
c. 9,300 – 8,600 BCE
c. 8,600 – 8,000 BCE
|
Previously occupied by the Natufian culture.
|
[3]
|
Iraq ed-Dubb
|
Jordan Valley, Levant
|
Pre-Pottery Neolithic
|
c. 10,000 – 7,950 BCE
|
|
[4]
|
Nanzhuangtou
|
North China Plain
|
|
c. 9,500 – 7,500 BCE
|
|
|
Jericho
|
Jordan Valley, Levant
|
Sultanian
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
Lodian culture
|
c. 9,500 – 7,370 BCE
c. 6,800 – 5,850 BCE
c. 5,850 – 4,500 BCE
|
Preceded by a Natufian settlement and continuously settled by a succession of cultures.
|
|
Lepenski Vir
|
Donji Milanovac, Serbia
|
|
c. 9,500 – 6,000 BCE
|
|
|
Göbekli Tepe
|
Anatolia
|
Pre-Pottery Neolithic
|
c. 9,130 – 7,370 BCE
|
|
[5]
|
Byblos
|
Mount Lebanon, Levant
|
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
Yarmukian culture
Wadi Raba culture
|
c. 8,800 – 7,000 BCE
c. 6,400 – 5,800 BCE
c. 5,800 – 5,300 BCE
c. 5,300 – 4,500 BCE
|
Continuously inhabited by a succession of cultures.
|
|
Tell Aswad
|
Syria, Levant
|
Aswadian
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
|
c. 8700 – 7500 BCE
|
|
[6]
|
Nachcharini
|
Anti-Lebanon Mountains, Levant
|
Khiamian
|
c. 8,500 – 7,700 BCE
|
|
[7]
|
Nevalı Çori
|
Mesopotamia
|
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
|
c. 8,400 – 8,100 BCE
|
|
|
'Ain Ghazal
|
Jordan Valley, Levant
|
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
Yarmukian culture
|
c. 8,300 – 6,400 BCE
c. 6,400 – 5,000 BCE
|
|
|
Çatalhöyük
|
Anatolia
|
Anatolian Neolithic
|
c. 7,100 – 5,700 BCE
|
|
[8]
|
Çayönü
|
Mesopotamia
|
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
|
c. 8,630 – 6,800 BCE
|
|
[9]
|
Munhata
|
Jordan Valley, Levant
|
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
Yarmukian culture
|
c. 8,300 – 6,400 BCE
c. 6,400 – 6,000 BCE
|
|
[10]
|
'Ain Ghazal
|
Jordan Valley, Levant
|
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
|
c. 8,300 – 5,000 BCE
|
|
[11]
|
Aşıklı Höyük
|
Anatolia
|
Pre-Pottery Neolithic
|
c. 8,200 – 7,400 BCE
|
|
[12]
|
Ganj Dareh
|
Zagros Mountains
|
|
c. 8,000 – 5,500 BCE
|
|
[13]
|
Tell Halula
|
Mesopotamia
|
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
|
c. 7,750 – 6,780 BCE
|
|
[14]
|
Tell Sabi Abyad
|
Mesopotamia
|
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
Hassuna culture
Halaf culture
Halaf-Ubaid culture
Ubaid culture
|
c. 7,750 – 6,850 BCE
c. 6,850 – 6,200 BCE
c. 6,200 – 5,200 BCE
c. 5,200 – 5,000 BCE
c. 5,000 – 4,000 BCE
|
Continued settlement from the Uruk period into the Middle Assyrian Empire.
|
|
Jarmo
|
Mesopotamia
|
Pottery Neolithic
|
c. 7,500 – 5,000 BCE
|
|
|
Pengtoushan
|
Yangtze valley, China
|
Pengtoushan culture
|
c. 7,500 – 6100 BCE
|
|
[15]
|
Nabta Playa
|
Nubian Desert
|
|
c. 7,500 – 3,600 BCE
|
|
[16]
|
Chogha Bonut
|
Zagros Mountains
|
|
c. 7,200 – 4,000 BCE
|
|
[17]
|
Jhusi
|
Ganges Valley, South Asia
|
|
c. 7,106 – 7,080 BCE
|
|
[18]
|
Hacilar
|
Anatolia
|
Halaf culture
|
c. 7,040 – 5,000 BCE
|
|
|
Jiahu
|
Yellow River Valley, China
|
Peiligang culture
|
c. 7,000 – 5,700 BCE
|
|
[19]
|
Mehrgarh
|
Indus River Valley, South Asia
|
Neolithic South Asia
|
c. 7,000 – 5,500 BCE
c. 5,500 – 4,800 BCE
|
Later developed into a Chalcolithic society (c. 4,800 – 2,600 BCE)
|
|
Khirokitia
|
Cyprus
|
|
c. 7,000 – 6,000 BCE
|
|
[20][21]
|
Knossos
|
Crete
|
Prehistoric Crete
|
c. 7,000 – 3,500 BCE
|
Developed into a major city-state of the Minoan civilization.
|
|
Sesklo
|
Thessaly
|
Neolithic Greece
|
c. 6,850 – 4,400 BCE
|
|
|
Nea Nikomedeia
|
Macedonia
|
Neolithic Greece
|
c. 6,650 – 5,530 BCE
|
|
[22]
|
Shandong
|
North China Plain
|
Houli culture
Beixin culture
Dawenkou culture
Longshan culture
Yueshi culture
|
c. 6,500 – 5,500 BCE
c. 5,300 – 4,100 BCE
c. 4,100 – 2,600 BCE
c. 3,000 – 1,900 BCE
c. 1,900 – 1,500 BCE
|
Continuous settlement by successive cultures.
|
|
Cishan
|
Taihang Mountains, China
|
Cishan culture
|
c. 6,500 – 5,000 BCE
|
|
|
Sha'ar HaGolan
|
Jordan Valley, Levant
|
Yarmukian culture
|
c. 6,400 – 6,000 BCE
|
|
[23]
|
Tel Kabri
|
Galilee,
Israel
|
Yarmukian culture
Wadi Raba culture
|
c. 6,400 – 5,800 BCE
c. 5,800 – 4,500 BCE
|
Continued settlement by successive cultures.
|
|
Starčevo
|
Danube Valley, Serbia
|
Starčevo culture
|
c. 6,200 – 4,500 BCE
|
|
[24]
|
Xinglonggou
|
Liao River
|
Xinglongwa culture
Hongshan culture
|
c. 6,000 – 5,500 BCE
c. 3,500 – 3,000 BCE
|
Settlement continued into the Bronze Age by the Lower Xiajiadian culture.
|
[25]
|
Tell Hassuna
|
Nineveh, Mesopotamia
|
Hassuna culture
|
c. 6,000 – 5,350 BCE
|
|
|
Kuahuqiao
|
Qiantang River, China
|
Kuahuqiao culture
|
c. 6,000 – 5,000 BCE
|
|
|
Tell Shemshara
|
Nineveh, Mesopotamia
|
Hassuna culture
|
c. 6,000 – 4,000 BCE
|
Continued settlement by successive cultures.
|
|
Tell Judaidah
|
Amik Valley, Anatolia
|
|
c. 6,000 — 3,500 BCE
|
|
|
Brú na Bóinne
|
River Boyne, Eire
|
Boyne culture
|
c. 6,000 — 2,900 BCE
|
|
[26]
|
Vučedol
|
Vukovar, Croatia
|
|
c. 6,000 – 2,300 BCE
|
|
|
Lin
|
Korçë, Albania
|
|
c. 5,900 – 5,800 BCE
|
|
[27]
|
Hamadia
|
Beit She'an Valley, Israel
|
Yarmukian culture
|
c. 5,800 – 5,400 BCE
|
|
|
Dadiwan
|
Wei River Valley, China
|
Dadiwan culture
|
c. 5,800 – 5,400 BCE
|
|
|
Vinča-Belo Brdo
|
Vinča, Serbia
|
Vinča culture
|
c. 5,700 – 4,500 BCE
|
|
|
Xinle
|
Liao River, China
|
Xinle culture
|
c. 5,500 – 4,800 BCE
|
|
[28]
|
El Badari
|
Upper Egypt, Nile Valley
|
Badarian culture
|
c. 5,500 – 4,000 BCE
|
|
|
Tell Zeidan
|
Syria, Levant
|
Ubaid culture
|
c. 5,500 – 4,000 BCE
|
|
|
Hemudu
|
Hangzhou Bay
|
Hemudu culture
|
c. 5,500 – 3,300 BCE
|
|
[29]
|
Zhaobaogou
|
Luan River, China
|
Zhaobaogou culture
|
c. 5,400 – 4,500 BCE
|
|
|
Sotira
|
Cyprus
|
|
c. 5,250 – 4,000 BCE
|
|
|
Mogylna
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 5,000 — 4,600 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Dimini
|
Thessaly
|
Neolithic Greece
|
c. 5,000 — 4,400 BCE
|
|
|
Daxi
|
Yangtze River Valley, China
|
Daxi culture
|
c. 5,000 — 3,300 BCE
|
|
|
Majiabang
|
Yangtze River Valley, China
|
Majiabang culture
|
c. 5,000 — 3,300 BCE
|
|
[31]
|
Skorba
|
Mġarr, Malta
|
Għar Dalam culture
Skorba culture
Żebbuġ culture
Mġarr culture
|
c. 4,850 — 4,500 BCE
c. 4,500 — 4,100 BCE
c. 4,100 — 3,800 BCE
c. 3,800 — 3,600 BCE
|
Continued settlement by Ġgantija and Tarxien cultures.
|
|
Banpo
|
Yellow River Valley
|
Yangshao culture
|
c. 4,700 — 3,600 BCE
|
|
[32][33][34][35]
|
Vesioly Kut
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,300 — 4,000 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Nebelivka
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,300 — 4,000 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Trypillia
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,300 — 4,000 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Myropillya
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,300 — 4,000 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Kharkivka
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,300 — 4,000 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Glubochek
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,300 — 4,000 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Pianeshkove
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,300 — 4,000 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Vil’khovets
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,300 — 4,000 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Fedorovka
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,300 — 4,000 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Tomashovka
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,000 — 3,600 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Maidanetske
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,000 — 3,600 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Dobrovody
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,000 — 3,600 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Talianki
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,000 — 3,600 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Khrystynivka
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,000 — 3,600 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Volodymyrivka
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,000 — 3,600 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Peregonivka
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,000 — 3,600 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Vladyslavcyk
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 4,000 — 3,600 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Songze
|
Lake Tai, China
|
Songze culture
|
c. 3,800 — 3,300 BCE
|
|
|
Chychyrkozivka
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 3,600 — 3,200 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Kvitky
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 3,600 — 3,200 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Ksaverove
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 3,600 — 3,200 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Yaltushkiv
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 3,600 — 3,200 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Sushkivka
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 3,600 — 3,200 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Stina
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 3,600 — 3,200 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Romanivka
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 3,600 — 3,200 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Rozsokhuvatka
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 3,600 — 3,200 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Apolyanka
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 3,600 — 2,700 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Knap of Howar
|
Papa Westray, Orkney
|
Neolithic Orkney
|
c. 3,700 — 2,800 BCE
|
|
[36]
|
Ħaġar Qim
|
Qrendi, Malta
|
Ġgantija culture
|
c. 3,700 — 3,200 BCE
|
|
|
Ġgantija
|
Gozo, Malta
|
Ġgantija culture
|
c. 3,600 — 3,200 BCE
|
|
|
Mnajdra
|
Qrendi, Malta
|
Ġgantija culture
|
c. 3,600 — 3,200 BCE
|
|
|
Ta' Ħaġrat
|
Mġarr, Malta
|
Ġgantija culture
Saflieni culture
|
c. 3,600 — 3,200 BCE
c. 3,300 — 3,000 BCE
|
|
|
Qujialing
|
Yangtze River Valley
|
Qujialing culture
|
c. 3,400 — 2,600 BCE
|
|
|
Liangzhu
|
Yangtze Delta, China
|
Liangzhu culture
|
c. 3,400 — 2,250 BCE
|
|
|
Büdelsdorf
|
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
|
Funnel Beaker Culture
|
c. 3,300 — 2,800 BCE
|
|
[37]
|
Oldenburg
|
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
|
Funnel Beaker Culture
|
c. 3,300 — 2,800 BCE
|
|
[38]
|
Majiayao
|
Yellow River Valley, China
|
Majiayao culture
Banshan culture
Machang culture
|
c. 3,300 – 2,500 BCE
c. 2,500 – 2,300 BCE
c. 2,300 – 2,000 BCE
|
|
[39]
|
Ness of Brodgar
|
Orkney
|
Neolithic Orkney
|
c. 3,300 – 2,200 BCE
|
|
[40]
|
Tarxien
|
Malta
|
Tarxien culture
|
c. 3,250 – 2,800 BCE
|
|
|
Kocherzhyntsi
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 3,200 — 2,700 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Kosenivka
|
Danube Valley
|
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
|
c. 3,200 — 2,700 BCE
|
|
[30]
|
Skara Brae
|
Bay of Skaill, Orkney
|
Neolithic Orkney
|
c. 3,180 — 2,500 BCE
|
|
[41]
|
Baodun
|
Chengdu Plain, Sichuan Basin, China
|
Baodun culture
|
c. 2,700 — 1,700 BCE
|
|
[42]
|
Shijiahe
|
Yangtze River Valley, China
|
Shijiahe culture
|
c. 2,500 — 2,000 BCE
|
|
|