Epoca Neolithic

10000 a.C. – 3000 a.C. · 29 siti

Il Neolitico è dove villaggi, pastorizia e (in alcune regioni) monumenti compaiono insieme — e dove slogan come "primo tempio" necessitano di un grado di evidenza. Göbekli Tepe, Çatalhöyük e i megaliti europei non sono un'unica cultura; sono esperimenti paralleli di convivenza.

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Most-Visited Ancient Site in Europe

Stonehenge

3100 a.C. – 1600 a.C.

Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic monument in Wiltshire, England, erected in phases between 3100 and 1600 BCE. Its iconic sarsen stones and bluestones form a complex of ceremonial and astronomical significance.

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T-shaped pillars at Göbekli Tepe archaeological site

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Most-Visited Ancient Site in Asia

Göbekli Tepe

9600 a.C. – 8000 a.C.

The world's oldest known monumental sanctuary, predating Stonehenge by roughly 6,000 years. Massive carved T-shaped pillars arranged in circles suggest complex ritual activity among pre-agricultural communities.

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The Stone Tower of Jericho (Tell es-Sultan), c. 8500 BCE — among the world's earliest stone monuments

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Oldest Settlement in Palestine

Jericho

9600 a.C. – 700 d.C.

The world's oldest continuously inhabited city — a Neolithic settlement in the Jordan Valley where humans first built permanent stone structures and cultivated crops around 9600 BCE. The Tower of Jericho, erected by an early Neolithic community around 8500 BCE, is one of the earliest stone monuments on Earth, predating Stonehenge by more than 5,000 years and the Egyptian pyramids by more than 6,000.

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Oldest Sanctuary in Asia

Karahan Tepe

9500 a.C. – 7800 a.C.

Karahan Tepe is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement in southeastern Türkiye, contemporaneous with Göbekli Tepe, featuring monumental architecture and ritual enclosures.

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Newgrange

3200 a.C. – 2900 a.C.

Newgrange is a Neolithic passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland, built c. 3200–2900 BCE, famously aligned to the winter solstice sunrise. Its sophisticated megalithic art and architecture make it one of Europe's most remarkable prehistoric monuments.

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Northernmost Known Site in the World

Skara Brae

3180 a.C. – 2500 a.C.

A remarkably preserved Neolithic village on Orkney's Bay of Skaill, inhabited from c. 3180 to 2500 BCE, offering unparalleled insights into prehistoric domestic life.

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Aerial view of the Avebury henge, showing the stone circles and surrounding village

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Oldest Monument in Europe

Avebury

2850 a.C. – 2200 a.C.

The largest prehistoric stone circle in the world — a Neolithic henge enclosing 28 hectares with a ditch, outer bank, and three interlocking stone circles, part of a sacred landscape that also includes Silbury Hill, West Kennet long barrow, and the Sanctuary.

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Excavated mudbrick structures at Çatalhöyük

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Oldest Settlement in Türkiye

Çatalhöyük

7400 a.C. – 5600 a.C.

One of the world's earliest known proto-urban settlements, occupied from roughly 7400 to 5600 BCE. Famous for its densely packed mudbrick houses, wall paintings, and evidence of a remarkably egalitarian Neolithic community.

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Neolithic

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Oldest Monument in the World

Carnac Stones

4500 a.C. – 3300 a.C.

A vast complex of Neolithic standing stones, alignments, dolmens, and tumuli in Brittany, France, erected between 4500 and 3300 BCE, representing one of the largest megalithic collections in the world.

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Oldest Settlement in Turkey

Çayönü Tepesi

9100 a.C. – 5500 a.C.

A Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement on the Ergani plain near Diyarbakır, famous for its grill-plan and cell-plan houses, a skull building, and some of the earliest copper and malachite working in Southwest Asia. In 2026 excavators uncovered a 5 m² workshop dated 6900-6800 BCE.

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Archaeological tell and Crusader castle at Byblos (Jbeil), Lebanon

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Longest Continuously Occupied Site in Lebanon

Byblos

7000 a.C. – 1300 d.C.

A Levantine harbour city north of Beirut with Neolithic roots, Early Bronze fortifications, a Temple of the Obelisks, Phoenician royal tombs, and Crusader walls. Continuously inhabited and inscribed by UNESCO as one of the oldest cities still lived in.

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Excavated stone walls and spoil of Tel Megiddo overlooking the Jezreel Valley

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Longest Continuously Occupied Site in Israel

Tel Megiddo

7000 a.C. – 400 a.C.

The multi-layered tell overlooking the Jezreel Valley — Canaanite city, Egyptian stronghold, and Israelite fortress whose Greek name Armageddon entered apocalyptic tradition — ranks first among missing archaeological sites in our EN/DE/TR/ZH Wikipedia pageview audit.

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