Neolithic
List of early settlements
Table:
name

location

early date (BC)

late date (BC)

comments

Göbekli Tepe

Turkey

10,000[68]

8000

Guilá Naquitz Cave

Oaxaca, Mexico

11,000

Tell Qaramel

Syria

10,700[69]

9400

Franchthi Cave

Greece

10,000

reoccupied between 7500 and 6000 BC

Nanzhuangtou

Hebei, China

9500

9000

Byblos

Lebanon

8800

7000[70]

Jericho (Tell es-Sultan)

West Bank

9500

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[71]

'Ain Ghazal

Jordan

7250

5000

Chogha Bonut

Iran

7200

Jhusi

India

7100

Ganj Dareh

Iran

7000

Lahuradewa

India

7000 [72]

Jiahu

China

7000

5800

Knossos

Crete

7000

Khirokitia

Cyprus

7000

4000

Sesklo

Greece

6850

with a 660-year margin of error

Mehrgarh

Pakistan

6500

5500

Porodin

North Macedonia

6500[73]

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[74][75]

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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