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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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A fortified Bronze Age settlement in the southern Urals, built from two rings of dwellings with defensive walls, a ditch, workshops, and planned entrances.
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Large Neolithic settlement of closely packed mud-brick houses, generally entered through the roof, with no ordinary streets between the buildings.
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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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Mississippian town and ceremonial centre in Georgia, with platform mounds, a plaza, defensive works, residential areas, and burials beside the Etowah River.
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Ancestral Puebloan towers on the Utah-Colorado border. Oriented to track solstices through tiny portholes.
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Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement in the Şanlıurfa region, with domestic areas, T-shaped pillars, carved figures, and communal buildings cut partly into the bedrock.
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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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Buddhist monastic and settlement complex built over an ancient copper-working landscape. Archaeologists have documented temples, sculpture, manuscripts, and industrial remains.
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Ancestral Pueblo landscape of mesa-top villages, farms, and later cliff dwellings built within sandstone alcoves. Descendant Pueblo communities remain connected to the region.
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A fortified Bronze Age settlement in the southern Urals known for metalworking, complex burials, and some of the earliest well-attested spoke-wheeled chariots.
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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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