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Explore villages and inhabited landscapes that preserve the everyday evidence of houses, food, craft, exchange, and community life.
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Ceremonial centre with great houses aligned to lunar standstills. Connected to outliers by 650+ kilometres of engineered roads.
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Largest great house in Chaco. 650 rooms, four storeys, oriented to the cardinal directions.
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Ancestral Puebloan towers on the Utah-Colorado border. Oriented to track solstices through tiny portholes.
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A long-lived settlement on the Danube known for trapezoid houses, organised communal spaces, burials, fishing, and monumental stone sculptures.
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Amazonian island society that built large mound complexes and produced finely painted ceramics. Population estimates run into the hundred thousands.
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Neolithic stone village in Orkney, exposed by an 1850 storm. Older than Stonehenge, with built-in stone furniture.
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A major Neolithic settlement on the Danube near Belgrade, with deep occupation layers, mud-and-timber houses, pottery, figurines, and long-distance trade.
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