Neolithic age

Connected Sites: 77

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (period in time varies per geographical area)

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  • Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.38
    135
    18
    "Criterion (iii): The arrival of the Neolithic cultures marked a major milestone in human cultural and technological development, which is vividly illustrated by the vast complex of ancient flint mines at Spiennes." (OUV)
  • Choirokoitia
    Inscribed: 1998
    2.48
    143
    13
    "It represents the Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus at its peak, that is the success of the first human occupation of the island by farmers coming from the Near East mainland around the beginning of 9th millennium." (OUV)
  • Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.12
    108
    7
    "During the Neolithic period (the 5th to 1st centuries of the 4th millennium BC approximately-5500-3300 BC[5]), agricultural practices spread in Val Camonica, correlated with the formation of the first sedentary settlements. In the field of rock art, human figures and sets of geometric elements, such as rectangles, circles, and dots, constitute the main elements of the compositions and complete the symbolic meaning of the anthropomorphical petroglyphs." (wiki)
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Tassili n'Ajjer
    Inscribed: 1982
    3.62
    21
    2
    The site of Tassili was primarily occupied during the Neolithic period by transhumant pastoralist groups whose lifestyle benefitted both humans and livestock. There are numerous rock shelters within the sandstone forests, strewn with Neolithic artifacts including ceramic pots and potsherds, lithic arrowheads, bowls and grinders, beads, and jewelry. (wiki)
  • Megalithic Temples of Malta
    Inscribed: 1980
    3.55
    310
    12
    "Their makers erected the two Ġgantija temples during the Neolithic" (wiki)
  • Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.57
    120
    7
    Mont Perdu - several sites including the Dolmen from Tella
  • Southern Öland
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.62
    113
    7
    "Passage graves on Västra Landborgen provide evidence for permanent settlement in the Neolithic period." (AB ev)
  • Cilento and Vallo di Diano
    Inscribed: 1998
    3.39
    168
    5
    Capo Grosso - "It has been successively occupied over time by farmers during the Neolithic period, .." (OUV)
  • Mycenae and Tiryns
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.53
    240
    10
    The site of Mycenae is known from excavations to have been occupied from the Neolithic period (c . 4000 BC). (AB)
  • Wachau Cultural Landscape
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.37
    233
    12
    The region of Krems and Melk was densely settled as early as the Neolithic period (4500-1800 BCE) (AB ev)
  • Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
    Inscribed: 2007
    2.89
    184
    8
    Alignement de Lutry: "L'alignement a été dressé au Néolithique, entre -4500 et -4000" (wiki)
  • Air and Téneré
    Inscribed: 1991
    3.14
    2
    1
    Palaeolithic and Neolithic archaeological sites are found at many locations in the reserve, as are rock engraving sites. (unesco website)
  • Çatalhöyük
    Inscribed: 2012
    3.45
    75
    7
    "Çatalhöyük provides a unique testimony to a moment of the Neolithic, in which the first agrarian settlements were established in central Anatolia" (OUV)
  • Hawraman/Uramanat
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.07
    8
    1
    The vertical migration pattern in Hawraman/Uramanat is among the oldest types of migration, dating to the early Neolithic. (AB ev)
  • Olympia
    Olympia
    Greece
    Inscribed: 1989
    3.60
    215
    9
    The Pan-Hellenic sanctuary has been established in the history of culture, as the most important religious, political and sports centre, with a history that dates back to the end of the Neolithic times (4th millennium BC) (OUV)
  • Land of Frankincense
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.81
    66
    10
    "There is a number of Neolithic sites in the immediate vicinity of Shisr + Khor Rori A series of archaeological campaigns have identified a considerable number of sites, most of them Neolithic." (AB ev)"
  • Vilnius
    Vilnius
    Lithuania
    Inscribed: 1994
    3.45
    317
    10
    "The Vilnius Historic Centre began its history on the glacial hills that had been intermittently occupied from the Neolithic period" (OUV)
  • Rock Art in the Hail Region
    Inscribed: 2015
    3.25
    35
    4
    - "The intensive and comprehensive survey of the Jabal al-Manjor and Raat complexes since their recent re-discovery resulted in the locating of hundreds of rock art panels, several stone structures, and typical stone objects of the Neolithic era." – "Present data indicates that the record of surviving rock art commences shortly after 10,000 years ago, providing an insight into the Neolithic culture through thousands of petroglyphs." (AB Ev)
  • Lenggong Valley
    Inscribed: 2012
    1.76
    47
    14
    Bukit Gua Harimau
  • Banc d'Arguin
    Banc d'Arguin
    Mauritania
    Inscribed: 1989
    2.32
    15
    2
    Neolithic archaeological sites and vestiges of the Almoravid civilization are found on some of the islands. (EOEarth)
  • Stonehenge and Avebury
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.74
    429
    18
    "the evolution of monument construction and of the continual use and shaping of the landscape over more than 2000 years, from the early Neolithic to the Bronze Age" (OUV)
  • Himā Cultural area
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.33
    22
    3
    An ancient Palaeolithic and Neolithic site, the Bir Hima Complex covers the time period of 2500–1000 BC
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Bassari Country
    Inscribed: 2012
    3.09
    12
    2
    Archaeological research has yielded some evidence of the human occupation of the region since the Neolithic age, in the forms of worked stones, pebble-tools, etc (AB ev)
  • Ephesus
    Ephesus
    Turkiye
    Inscribed: 2015
    4.10
    267
    6
    The Neolithic settlement of Cukurici Mound marking the southern edge of the former estuary is now well inland (OUV)
  • Central Highlands
    Inscribed: 2010
    3.09
    133
    7
    "So far as the archaeological evidence from Horton Plains is concerned, the significance relates to its global context, the origin of agriculture, which marks the dawn of the Neolithic Revolution, dating back to 14,000–10,000 years BP" (AB ev)
  • Byblos
    Byblos
    Lebanon
    Inscribed: 1984
    3.16
    92
    4
    "Continuously inhabited since Neolithic times" (OUV)
  • Brú na Bóinne
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.63
    206
    11
    "The Knowth group, where the earliest features date from the Neolithic period and the latest from the Anglo-Norman period, has produced thirty monuments and sites" (OUV)
  • Al-Faw
    Al-Faw
    Saudi Arabia
    Inscribed: 2024
    1.29
    4
    3
    "Neolithic tools of early people" (AB ev)
  • Megaliths of Carnac
    Inscribed: 2025
    3.07
    70
    5
    "The nominated serial property consists of four component parts which encompass a high density of megalithic structures showcasing Neolithic monumental architecture which was erected successively over more than two millennia (from approximately 5000 to 2300 BCE) (...)." - "The megalithic phenomenon in Brittany ceased with the end of the Neolithic period." (AB Ev)
  • The Prehistoric Sites of the Khorramabad Valley
    Archaeological material from the Neolithic was found in Kaldar Cave, Ghamari Cave and Gilvaran Cave. (AB Ev)
  • Taxila
    Taxila
    Pakistan
    Inscribed: 1980
    2.98
    42
    4
    tumulus of Saraikala
  • Wrangel Island
    Inscribed: 2004
    2.53
    2
    1
    Chertov Ovrag site: "On Wrangel Island, the earliest Neolithic site without pottery, Chertov Ovrag, was [sup.14]C dated to c. 3400 BP"
    See go.gale.com
  • W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
    W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
    Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger
    Inscribed: 1996
    1.94
    13
    4
    "The site reflects the interaction between natural resources and humans since Neolithic times." (AB ev)
  • Wadi Rum
    Wadi Rum
    Jordan
    Inscribed: 2011
    3.97
    227
    8
    Several sites, including Neolithic village of Abu Nakheileh, agricultural settlement of Udayb er-Rih
  • Viking Age Ring Fortresses
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.00
    104
    5

    Trelleborg: "In addition to evidence of the actual fortress and the settlement, there were also Neolithic remains in the form of refuse pits and possibly parts of a causewayed enclosure of Sarup type (Neolithic, c. 3000 BCE)" (Nomination file, p. 166)
  • Val d'Orcia
    Inscribed: 2004
    3.23
    199
    11
    The archaeological area of Cava Barbieri: The oldest settlement dates back to the early Neolithic. Later remains are indicative of contacts with other groups from central and northern Italy, with Linear ceramics, and the "Ripoli culture"; then in the last phase of the Neolithic with groups from southern Italy and Sicily with the Diana culture. (Nomination file, p. 111)
  • Tadrart Acacus
    Inscribed: 1985
    3.69
    6
    1
    " Animal domestication as part of the African Neolithic was introduced in this region by around 7000 BP, and pastoralism and foraging were the primary subsistence strategies of people in this region, not agriculture. Sites in this region have been split into three main occupation periods: the Early Acacus, Late Acacus, and Pastoral Neolithic... The Pastoral Neolithic was characterized by increased mobility in a more humid environment again, and the domestication of animals. " (wiki)
  • St. Kilda
    St. Kilda
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.50
    26
    4
    "Recently, the first direct evidence of earlier Neolithic settlement emerged?shards of pottery of the Hebridean ware style, found to the east of the village."
  • Schokland
    Schokland
    Netherlands
    Inscribed: 1995
    1.92
    185
    11
    "there are four large village terps, all of them protected archaeological sites. A fifth such site includes traces of Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements." (OUV)
  • Sarazm
    Sarazm
    Tajikistan
    Inscribed: 2010
    1.95
    44
    6
    "ICOMOS considers that Sarazm is an important archaeological site at Central Asian level, and that it fully illustrates proto-urban development and the birth of networks of tangible and cultural interchanges over long distances, from the end of the Neolithic until the Bronze Age" (AB ev)
  • Sangiran Early Man Site
    Inscribed: 1996
    1.86
    64
    9
    Some Neolithic remains have been found but the main period of interest regarding the human remains was much earlier
  • Saint-Emilion
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.01
    187
    8
    Menhir de Peyrefitte
    See fr.wikipedia.org
  • Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
    Inscribed: 1998
    2.82
    301
    14
    Dolmen of Pech Laglaire 2
    See fr.wikipedia.org
  • Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
    Inscribed: 1992
    2.34
    58
    4
    "The earliest finds date back to the 5th/4th millennium BC, during the Neolithic period, but the main settlement began in the 10th century BC" (OUV)
  • Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
    Prehistoric Pile Dwellings
    Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.03
    249
    15
    "The waterlogged conditions have preserved organic matter that contributes in an outstanding way to our understanding of significant changes in the Neolithic and Bronze Age history of Europe in general," (OUV)
  • "Criterion (iii): ... a unique source of data and representing a coherent image of the Neolithic culture period in the northeastern part of Fennoscandia." (OUV)
  • Petra
    Petra
    Jordan
    Inscribed: 1985
    4.61
    288
    21
    Remains of the Neolithic settlement at Beidha
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Paphos
    Paphos
    Cyprus
    Inscribed: 1980
    3.27
    219
    9
    "Paphos, which has been inhabited since the Neolithic period" (OUV)
  • Nisa
    Nisa
    Turkmenistan
    Inscribed: 2007
    2.07
    48
    5
    New Nisa - Neu-Nisa war der erste Ort, an dem die neolithische Dschejtun-Kultur nachgewiesen wurde. (Wiki)
  • Niah Caves
    Niah Caves
    Malaysia
    Inscribed: 2024
    2.71
    24
    5
    "Neolithic-period burials" (AB ev)
  • Neolithic Orkney
    Neolithic Orkney
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.79
    105
    11
    "The state of preservation of Skara Brae is unparalleled amongst Neolithic settlement sites in northern Europe." (OUV)
  • Mount Taishan
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.61
    71
    7
    "By Neolithic times, 5,000-6,000 years ago, it had become a significant cultural centre with two cultures flourishing, the Dawenkou to the north and the Longshan to the south of the mountain." (AB evaluation)
  • Mount Carmel Caves
    Inscribed: 2012
    2.23
    71
    5
    "This significant regional culture of the late Epi-Palaeolithic period presents the transition from Palaeolithic to Neolithic ways of life, from nomadic to complex, sedentary communities, bearing testimony to the last hunter-gatherer society and the various adaptations it underwent on the threshold of agriculture." (OUV)
  • Matera
    Matera
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.85
    222
    7
    Traces history bak to Neolithic Age, famous for "Matera ware" pottery
    See historic-cities.huji.ac.il
  • Lushan National Park
    Inscribed: 1996
    2.92
    54
    3
    "Archaeological sites include the large Neolithic village of Tingzi Dun (4th millennium BC), the farming, hunting and fishing settlement of the Shang and Zhou dynasties of Fanzhou Yan (1600-1000 BC), the residences of Tao Yuan-Ming, who moved several times during his lifetime (365-427), and the battlefield of Boyang Lake (Three Kingdoms Period, 220-65)." - Nomination File
  • Lopé-Okanda
    Inscribed: 2007
    1.95
    7
    1
    "Criterion (iv): the collection of Neolithic and Iron Age sites together with the rock art remains appear to reflect a major migration route of Bantu and other peoples" (OUV)
  • Liangzhu Archaeological Site
    Inscribed: 2019
    3.04
    46
    4
    Late Neolithic period of China
  • Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines
    Inscribed: 2019
    2.68
    66
    6
    mining sites dating from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age (c. 3900-1600 BCE) (AB ev)
  • Komodo National Park
    Inscribed: 1991
    3.78
    87
    7
    neolithic graves, artefacts and megaliths
  • Kazan Kremlin
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.76
    69
    6
    "Today, the number of monuments of the Mesolithic (7th-5th millennia BC)and Neolithic ages (4th--3rd millennia BC) in the territory and in the suburbs of the present-day Kazan is approaching ten." (see link)
    See real-kremlin.ru
  • Jomon Prehistoric Sites
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.50
    40
    4
    "As polished stone tools were in use in the Jōmon period, it can be placed at the Neolithic stage."
    See www.nippon.com
  • Hortobágy
    Hortobágy
    Hungary
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.30
    105
    8
    "Also found in the park are the low mounds (tells) that mark the sites of ancient settlements back from the Neolithic" (OUV)
  • High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.82
    106
    5
    "toward the end of the Stone Age, and many contemporary dwelling sites have been discovered" (nom file)
  • Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
    Inscribed: 1980
    3.72
    206
    15
    "The Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum is one of the best preserved and most extensive environments that have survived from the Neolithic." (AB ev)
  • Göbekli Tepe
    Inscribed: 2018
    3.77
    68
    6
    "Monumental structures, interpreted as monumental communal buildings (enclosures), were erected by groups of hunter-gatherers in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period" (OUV)
  • Fossil Hominid Sites
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.33
    58
    5
    Numerous sites spanning the Earlier Stone Age to Later Stone Age (nom file)
  • Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
    Inscribed: 1988
    2.75
    83
    10
    two Neolithic flint mines connected with workshop areas for stone tool-making (OUV)
  • Ban Chiang
    Ban Chiang
    Thailand
    Inscribed: 1992
    2.40
    61
    6
    " presenting a full picture of the emergence of a settled agrarian way of life in the early Neolithic period in Southeast Asia" (official description UNESCO website)
  • Atapuerca
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.31
    106
    7
    "The Galería del Silex contains abundant evidence of human occupation during the Neolithic and Bronze Age. More than fifty painted and engraved panels have been recorded, with geometrical motifs, hunting scenes, and anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures." (AB)
  • Antequera Dolmens Site
    Inscribed: 2016
    2.82
    150
    6
    Criterion (iii): "Antequera Dolmens Site provides an exceptional insight into the funerary and ritual practices of a highly organised prehistoric society of the Neolithic and Bronze Age in the Iberian Peninsula." (OUV)
  • Ancient Jericho
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.74
    69
    4
    Crit iii "Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan testifies in an exceptional way to developments that took place across the Near East in the Neolithic, characterised by the shifting of humanity to a new sedentary lifestyle and the related transition to new subsistence strategies." (OUV)
  • Al Ain
    Al Ain
    United Arab Emirates
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.52
    114
    8
    "mobile hunter-gatherer groups of the Neolithic period (6th millennium to 4th millennium BC in Al Ain) with remains discovered alongside the eastern ridge of Jebel Hafit" (AB ev)
  • Al-Ahsa Oasis
    Al-Ahsa Oasis
    Saudi Arabia
    Inscribed: 2018
    2.20
    42
    3
    The earliest occupation of Al-Ahsa is in the location of the present Al-Hofuf, where remains from pre-ceramic Neolithic culture (before 6000 BCE) have been found. (AB ev)
  • Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
    Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
    Hungary, Slovakia
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.14
    134
    11
    Baradla-Domica Cave : "Natural entrances to the cave have been open from ancient times, and there are traces of Neolithic occupation." (wiki)
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Petroglyphs along the Bangucheon Stream
    Inscribed: 2025
    2.20
    18
    5
    "These various images and inscriptions are an exceptional demonstration of this long tradition of rock engraving, extending from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age and up to the Silla period." - AB Evaluation
  • Vegaøyan
    Inscribed: 2004
    2.56
    43
    6
    "The abundance of resources led to great activity throughout the Mesolithic and Neolithic. So far, Stone Age finds have been recorded at 108 locations on Vega, the majority being habitation sites." (nomination dossier)
  • Ohrid Region
    Ohrid Region
    Albania, North Macedonia
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.41
    204
    7
    "A great number of archaeological sites testify to origins from the Neolithic period, ..." (OUV statement)
    See ohrid.org.mk