Neolithic
List of early settlements
Neolithic human settlements include: The world's oldest known engineered roadway, the Sweet Track in England, dates from 3800 BC and the world's oldest freestanding structure is the neolithic temple of Ġgantija in Gozo, Malta.

Neolithic

Section Title: List of early settlements
Table Section Text: Neolithic human settlements include: The world's oldest known engineered roadway, the Sweet Track in England, dates from 3800 BC and the world's oldest freestanding structure is the neolithic temple of Ġgantija in Gozo, Malta.

name	location	early date	late date	comments

Göbekli Tepe	Turkey	10,000	8000

Guilá Naquitz Cave	Oaxaca, Mexico	11,000

Tell Qaramel	Syria	10,700	9400

Franchthi Cave	Greece	10,000	reoccupied between 7500 and 6000 BC

Nanzhuangtou	Hebei, China	9500	9000

Byblos	Lebanon	8800	7000

Jericho	West bank	8350	arising from the earlier Epipaleolithic Natufian culture

Aşıklı Höyük	Central Anatolia, Turkey, an Aceramic Neolithic period settlement	8200	7400	correlating with the E/MPPNB in the Levant

Nevali Cori	Turkey	8000

Pengtoushan culture	China	7500	6100	rice residues were carbon-14 dated to 8200–7800 BC

Çatalhöyük	Turkey	7500

Mentesh Tepe and Kamiltepe	Azerbaijan	7000	3000

'Ain Ghazal	Jordan	7250	5000

Chogha Bonut	Iran	7200

Jhusi	India	7100

Ganj Dareh	Iran	7000

Lahuradewa	India	7000

Jiahu	China	7000	5800

Knossus	Crete	7000

Khirokitia	Cyprus	7000	4000

Sesklo	Greece	6850	with a 660-year margin of error

Mehrgarh	Pakistan	6500	5500

Porodin	North Macedonia	6500

Padah-Lin Caves	Burma	6000

Petnica	Serbia	6000

Stara Zagora	Bulgaria	5500

Cucuteni-Trypillian culture	Ukraine, Moldova and Romania	5500	2750

Tell Zeidan	northern Syria	5500	4000

Tabon Cave Complex	Quezon, Palawan, Philippines	5000	2000

Hemudu culture, large-scale rice plantation	China	5000	4500

The Megalithic Temples of Malta	Malta	3600

Knap of Howar and Skara Brae	Orkney, Scotland	3500	3100

Brú na Bóinne	Ireland	3500

Lough Gur	Ireland	3000

Norte Chico civilization, 30 aceramic Neolithic period settlements	northern coastal Peru	3000	1700

Tichit Neolithic village on the Tagant Plateau	central southern Mauritania	2000	500

Oaxaca, state	Southwestern Mexico	2000	by 2000 BC Neolithic sedentary villages had been established in the Central Valleys region of this state.

Lajia	China	2000

Mumun pottery period	Korean Peninsula	1800	1500

Neolithic revolution	Japan	500	300

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