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  2. List of first human settlements - Wikipedia

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    The oldest remnants of the so-called Fosna culture were found in Aukra in Møre og Romsdal. [73] Americas, South America: Argentina: 11,000 BP: Piedra Museo: Spear heads and human fossils [74] Europe, Baltic: Estonia: 11,000 BP: Pulli: The Pulli settlement on the bank of the Pärnu River briefly pre-dates that at Kunda, which gave its name to ...

  3. List of oldest continuously inhabited cities - Wikipedia

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    Oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in continental America. Baracoa: New Spain Cuba: 1511 AD Oldest European settlement in Cuba. Havana: New Spain Cuba: 1519 AD Oldest major city in Cuba, established 1515, granted city status in 1592 by Philip II of Spain as "Key to the New World and Rampart of the West Indies". Veracruz: New ...

  4. Göbekli Tepe - Wikipedia

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    The site was first used at the dawn of the Southwest Asian Neolithic period, which marked the appearance of the oldest permanent human settlements anywhere in the world. Prehistorians link this Neolithic Revolution to the advent of agriculture, but disagree on whether farming caused people to settle down or vice versa. Göbekli Tepe, a ...

  5. 25 of the Oldest Cities in the World

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    Just 26 miles north of Beirut, Byblos is also one of the oldest cities in the world. Carbon dating tests have indicated that the age of earliest settlement was around 7000 BC. Wikimedia Commons

  6. Jericho - Wikipedia

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    Jericho is among the oldest cities in the world, [7] [8] [9] and it is also the city with the oldest known defensive wall. [10] Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of more than 20 successive settlements in Jericho, the first of which dates back 11,000 years (to 9000 BCE), [ 11 ] [ 12 ] almost to the very beginning of the Holocene epoch of ...

  7. List of oldest extant buildings - Wikipedia

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    Settlement: Believed to be the oldest town in Europe, Solnitsata was the site of a prehistoric fortified stone settlement and salt production facility approximately six millennia ago; [122] it flourished ca 4700–4200 BCE. [123] The settlement was walled to protect the salt, a crucial commodity in antiquity. [124]

  8. 8,000-year-old ruins turn out to be world’s oldest fortress ...

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    8,000-year-old ruins turn out to be world’s oldest fortress. See the site in Siberia. ... it was once a bustling settlement — home to the world’s oldest known fortress some 8,000 years ago.

  9. The Amazon's ancient complex of 'lost cities' flourished for ...

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    The core area of Kilamope, one of the settlements, for example, is as large as Egypt's Giza Plateau or the main avenue of Teotihuacan in Mexico. ... The Amazon is considered the world's most ...