Editing Neolithic (section)

== List of early settlements ==
{{Main|List of Neolithic settlements}}
[[File:Tripolye hut.jpg|thumb|right|Reconstruction of a Cucuteni-Trypillian hut, in the Tripillian Museum, Ukraine|200px]]
[[File:CatalHoyukSouthArea.JPG|thumb|right|archaeological site of [[Çatalhöyük]] in the [[Konya Plain]] in [[Turkey]]|200px]]
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Neolithic [[List of archaeological sites|human settlements]] include:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! name
! location
! early date (BC)
! late date (BC)
! comments
|-
| [[Tell Qaramel]]
| [[Syria]]
| 10,700<ref>{{cite book|url=https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/viewFile/3532/3047|title=Tell Qaramel 1999–2007. Protoneolithic and early Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement in Northern Syria.|publisher=Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw|year=2012|isbn=978-83-903796-3-0|editor1-last=Mazurowski|editor1-first=Ryszard F.|series=PCMA Excavation Series 2|location=Warsaw, Poland|editor2-last=Kanjou|editor2-first=Youssef}}</ref>
| 9400
|
|-
| [[Franchthi Cave]]
| [[Greece]]
| 10,000
|
| reoccupied between 7500 and 6000&nbsp;BC
|-
| [[Göbekli Tepe]]
| Turkey
| 9600
| 8000
|
|-
| [[Nanzhuangtou]]
| [[Hebei]], [[China]]
| 9500
| 9000
|
|-
| [[Byblos]]
| [[Lebanon]]
| 8800
| 7000<ref name="PeltenburgWasse2004a">{{cite book|author1=E. J. Peltenburg|author2=Alexander Wasse|author3 = Council for British Research in the Levant|title = Garfinkel, Yosef., "Néolithique" and "Énéolithique" Byblos in Southern Levantine Context in Neolithic revolution: new perspectives on southwest Asia in light of recent discoveries on Cyprus|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6mKBAAAAMAAJ|access-date = 18 January 2012|year=2004|publisher=Oxbow Books|isbn=978-1-84217-132-5}}</ref>
|-
| Jericho ([[Tell es-Sultan]])
| [[West Bank]]
| 9500
|
| arising from the earlier [[Epipaleolithic]] [[Natufian culture]]
|-
| [[Pulli settlement]]
| [[Estonia]]
| 8500
| 5000
| oldest known settlement of [[Kunda 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
|
|
|-
|[[Bhirrana]]
|India
|7600
|7200
|[[Hakra Ware culture|Hakra ware]]
|-
| [[Pengtoushan culture]]
| [[China]]
| 7500
| 6100
| rice residues were carbon-14 dated to 8200–7800&nbsp;BC
|-
| [[Çatalhöyük]]
| [[Turkey]]
| 7500
| 5700
|
|-
| Mentesh Tepe and Kamiltepe
| [[Azerbaijan]]
| 7000
| 3000<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Ostaptchouk|first=Dr.|title=Contribution of FTIR to the Characterization of the Raw Material for "Flint" Chipped Stone and for Beads from Mentesh Tepe and Kamiltepe (Azerbaijan). Preliminary Results|url=https://www.academia.edu/36530926|language=en}}</ref>
|
|-
| [[Ayn Ghazal (archaeological site)|'Ain Ghazal]]
| [[Jordan]]
| 7250
| 5000
|
|-
| [[Chogha Bonut]]
| [[Iran]]
| 7200
|
|
|-
| [[Jhusi]]
| [[India]]
| 7100
|
|
|-
|Motza
|Israel
|7000
|
|
|-
| [[Ganj Dareh]]
| [[Iran]]
| 7000
|
|
|-
| [[Lahuradewa]]
| [[India]]
| 7000<ref name="Thanjan2011">{{cite book|author = Davis K. Thanjan|title = Pebbles|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=P9BLBh7XqnkC&pg=PA31|access-date = 4 July 2011|date = 12 January 2011|publisher = Bookstand Publishing|isbn = 978-1-58909-817-6|pages = 31– }}</ref>
|
|presence of rice cultivation, ceramics etc.
|-
| [[Jiahu]]
| [[China]]
| 7000
| 5800
|
|-
| [[Knossos]]
| [[Crete]]
| 7000
|
|
|-
|[[Khirokitia]]
|[[Cyprus]]
| 7000
| 4000
|
|-
|[[Mehrgarh]]
|[[Pakistan]]
| 7000
| 5500
|aceramic but elaborate culture including mud brick, houses, agriculture etc.
|-
|[[Sesklo]]
|[[Greece]]
| 6850
|
| with a 660-year margin of error
|-
|[[Horton Plains National Park|Horton Plains]]
|[[Sri Lanka]]
|6700
|
|cultivation of oats and barley as early as 11,000 BC
|-
|[[Porodin, North Macedonia|Porodin]]
| [[North Macedonia]]
| 6500<ref name="eliznik">[http://www.eliznik.org.uk/EastEurope/History/balkans-map/developed-neolithic.htm#nogo Developed Neolithic period, 5500 BC] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110311233032/http://www.eliznik.org.uk/EastEurope/History/balkans-map/developed-neolithic.htm#nogo |date=2011-03-11 }}. Eliznik.org.uk. Retrieved on 2011-12-03.</ref>
|
|
|-
| [[Padah-Lin Caves]]
| [[Myanmar|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<ref>{{Cite web |url = http://masterpieces.asemus.museum/masterpiece/detail.nhn?objectId=11070|title = Manunggul Burial Jar|access-date = 5 September 2013|website = Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.nationalmuseum.gov.ph/nationalmuseumbeta/ASBMD/Tabon.html|title = Tabon Cave Complex|year = 2011|access-date = 5 September 2013|publisher = National Museum of the Philippines|archive-date = 25 February 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210225151518/http://www.nationalmuseum.gov.ph/nationalmuseumbeta/ASBMD/Tabon.html|url-status = dead}}</ref>
|
|-
| [[Hemudu culture]], large-scale rice plantation
| [[China]]
| 5000
| 4500
|
|-
| The [[Megalithic Temples of Malta]]
| Malta
| 3600
|
|
|-
| [[Knap of Howar]] and [[Skara Brae]]
| [[Orkney]], [[Prehistoric Scotland|Scotland]]
| 3500
| 3100
|
|-
| [[Brú na Bóinne]]
| [[Ireland]]
| 3500
|
|
|-
| [[Lough Gur]]
| [[Ireland]]
| 3000
|
|
|-
|[[Shengavit Settlement]]
|[[Armenia]]
|3000
|2200
|
|-
| [[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&nbsp;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
|}
The world's oldest known engineered [[roadway]], the [[Post Track]] in [[England]], dates from 3838&nbsp;BC and the world's oldest freestanding structure is the Neolithic temple of [[Ġgantija]] in [[Gozo]], [[Malta]].