before 3000 BCE
3 Prehistoric sites in Asia: Göbekli Tepe, Mehrgarh and Çatalhöyük. From Ice Age cave painters to the first farmers and monument builders.
Türkiye · c. 9500 BCE
Carved T-shaped pillars raised before farming, pottery or writing — and before Stonehenge by about 6,000 years.
Pakistan · c. 7000–2500 BCE
A Neolithic village where people grew barley and herded cattle thousands of years before the Indus cities.
Türkiye · c. 7100–5700 BCE
Thousands of people lived in tightly packed mud-brick houses entered through holes in the roof.