List of Cultures and Sites
Note: Dates are very approximate, and are only given for a rough estimate; consult each culture for specific pie time periods.
Early Neolithic
Periodization: The Levant: 10,000 to 8500 BC; Europe: 5000 to 4000 BC; Elsewhere: varies greatly, depending on region.
- Beixin culture
- Cishan culture
- Dudeşti culture
- Franchthi Cave people
- Earliest European Neolithic site: 20th to 3rd millennium BC
- Sesclo village culture
- Starcevo-Criş culture
- (also known as the Starčevo-Körös-Criş culture)
Middle Neolithic
Periodization: The Levant: 8500 to 6500 BC; Europe: 4000 to 3500 BC; Elsewhere: varies greatly, depending on region.
- Baodun culture
- Jinsha settlement and Sanxingdui mound.
- Cardium Pottery culture
- Comb Ceramic culture
- Corded Ware culture
- Cortaillod culture
- Cucuteni-Trypillian culture
- Dadiwan culture
- Dawenkou culture
- Daxi culture
- Chengtoushan settlement
- Grooved ware people
- Skara Brae, et al.
- Erlitou culture
- Xia Dynasty
- Ertebølle culture
- Hembury culture
- Hemudu culture
- Hongshan culture
- Houli culture
- Horgen culture
- Liangzhu culture
- Linear Pottery culture
- Goseck circle, et al.
- Longshan culture
- Majiabang culture
- Majiayao culture
- Peiligang culture
- Pengtoushan culture
- Pfyn culture
- Precucuteni culture
- Qujialing culture
- Shijiahe culture
- Trypillian culture
- Vinča culture
- Windmill Hill culture
- Stonehenge
- Xinglongwa culture
- Beifudi site
- Xinle culture
- Yangshao culture
- Banpo and Xishuipo settlements.
- Zhaobaogou culture
Later Neolithic
Periodization: 6500 to 4500 BC; Europe: 3500 to 3000 BC; Elsewhere: varies greatly, depending on region.
Eneolithic
Periodization: Middle East: 4500 to 3300 BC; Europe: 3000 to 1700 BC; Elsewhere: varies greatly, depending on region. In the Americas, the Eneolithic ended as late as the 1800s for some people.
- Beaker culture
- Cucuteni-Trypillian culture
- Funnelbeaker culture
- Gaudo Culture
- Lengyel culture
- Varna culture
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