Neolithic - Early Settlements

Early Settlements

Neolithic human settlements include:

• Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, c. 11,000–9000 BC
• Tell Qaramel in Syria, 10,700–9400 BC
• Franchthi Cave in Greece, epipalaeolithic (c. 10,000 BC) settlement, reoccupied between 7500–6000 BC
• Lahuradewa in India, 7000 BC
• Jericho in West bank, Neolithic from around 8350 BC, arising from the earlier Epipaleolithic Natufian culture
• Nevali Cori in Turkey, c. 8000 BC
• Ganj Dareh in Iran, c. 7000 BC

• Çatalhöyük in Turkey, 7500 BC
• Pengtoushan culture in China, 7500 – 6100 BC
• 'Ain Ghazal in Jordan, 7250–5000 BC
• Chogha Bonut in Iran, 7200 BC
• Jhusi in India, 7100 BC
• Karanovo in Bulgaria, 6200 BC
• Petnica in Serbia, 6000 BC
• Sesklo in Greece, 6850 BC (with a ±660 year margin of error)
• Dispilio in Greece, c. 5500 BC
• Padah-Lin Caves in Burma, c. 6000 BC
• Jiahu in China, 7000 to 5800 BC
• Mehrgarh in Pakistan, 7000 BC
• Knossus on Crete, c. 7000 BC
• Porodin in Republic of Macedonia, 6500 BC
• Vrshnik (Anzabegovo) in Republic of Macedonia, 6500 BC
• Pizzo di Bodi (Varese), Lombardy in Italy, c. 6320 ±80 BC
• Sammardenchia in Friuli, Italy, c. 6050 ±90 BC,
• Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, 5500–2750 BC, in Ukraine, Moldova and Romania first salt works
• Tabon Cave Complex in Quezon, Palawan, Philippines 5000 – 2000 BC
• Hemudu culture in China, 5000 – 4500 BC, large scale rice plantation
• around 2000 settlements of Trypillian culture, 5400 – 2800 BC
• Tell Zeidan in northern Syria, from about 5500 to 4000 BC.
• The Megalithic Temples of Malta, 3600 BC
• Knap of Howar and Skara Brae, Orkney, Scotland, from 3500 BC and 3100 BC respectively
• Brú na Bóinne in Ireland, c. 3500 BC
• Lough Gur in Ireland from around 3000 BC
• Lajia in China, 2000 BC

The world's oldest known engineered roadway, the Sweet Track in England, dates from 3800 BC and the world's oldest free-standing structure is the neolithic temple of Ggantija in Gozo, Malta.