Site type guide
Neolithic Settlement
Neolithic Settlement sites reveal how different traditions shape sacred space through architecture, landscape, ritual, and memory.
11 neolithic settlement sacred sites. Use the country and tradition filters to narrow in.
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Neolithic Settlement sacred sites overview
Neolithic Settlement sacred sites span countries, traditions, pilgrimage routes, and sacred landscapes represented in the Pilgrim Map atlas.
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Aşıklı Höyük
Aksaray, Central Anatolia / Cappadocia, Turkey
Aşıklı Höyük is among the world's oldest permanent settlements, a compact mud-brick village where people first chose to root themselves to one place around 8200 BCE....
Boncuklu Höyük
Konya, Central Anatolia, Turkey
Boncuklu Höyük is the oldest known village on the Konya Plain, predating the famous Çatalhöyük by roughly a thousand years....
Çakmaktepe
Şanlıurfa, Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey
Çakmaktepe is the oldest known settlement in the Taş Tepeler cluster of Şanlıurfa — predating even Göbekli Tepe by roughly a thousand years....
Çatalhöyük
Konya, Central Anatolia, Turkey
Çatalhöyük is one of the world's most intensively studied Neolithic settlements — 18 levels of occupation, tightly packed mud-brick houses with roof-entry and the dead...
Çayönü Tepesi
Diyarbakır, Southeastern Anatolia / Ergani plain, Turkey
Çayönü Tepesi, near the headwaters of the Tigris River, is among the most ritually complex Neolithic sites in the world....
Gusir Höyük
Siirt, Southeastern Anatolia / Upper Tigris, Turkey
Gusir Höyük is one of southeastern Anatolia's rarest Neolithic sites — a stratified settlement near the Tigris-Botan confluence in Siirt province, occupied from roughly...
Hasankeyf Höyük
Batman, Southeastern Anatolia / Upper Tigris, Turkey
Hasankeyf Höyük is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site on the left bank of the Tigris in Batman province, southeastern Turkey, occupied by hunter-fisher-gatherers in the 10th...
Körtik Tepe
Diyarbakır, Southeastern Anatolia / Tigris-Batman confluence, Turkey
Körtik Tepe is among the oldest known permanently settled communities on Earth, occupied for fifteen centuries during the Younger Dryas cold period at the confluence of...
Köşk Höyük
Niğde, Central Anatolia / Bor plain, Turkey
Beneath the volcanic profile of Mount Hasan on the Bor Plateau of Central Anatolia, Köşk Höyük preserves a rare sequence of Neolithic and Chalcolithic life spanning 1,500...
Sumaki Höyük
Batman, Southeastern Anatolia / Upper Tigris, Turkey
Sumaki Höyük was a Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B and Early Pottery Neolithic settlement in the Lower Garzan Valley of Batman Province, occupied from approximately 7300 to...
Yeşilova Höyük
İzmir, Western Anatolia / Aegean, Turkey
Yeşilova Höyük is a Neolithic and Chalcolithic tell mound in Bornova, İzmir, occupied from around 6500 to 4000 BC....
Key questions
Neolithic Settlement sacred-site questions
- What neolithic settlement sacred sites are included?
- Neolithic Settlement sacred sites are places where this site type carries religious, ritual, cultural, or pilgrimage significance. This guide lists 11 in the current Pilgrim Map atlas.
- Where are these neolithic settlement sites located?
- Major country clusters include Turkey.
- Which traditions are represented?
- Traditions represented here include Prehistoric.
- Can I view neolithic settlement sacred sites on a map?
- Yes. Compare the country and tradition clusters, switch to map view for geography, then use site pages for practical context and related places.