list of ancient civilizations

This is an alphabetically ordered list of ancient civilizations. It includes types of cultures, traditions, and industries as well as more traditionally defined civilizations.

• Abbevillian industry
• Acheulean industry
• Aegean civilizations
• Amratian culture
• Ancestral Pueblo culture
• ancient Egypt
• ancient Greek civilization
• ancient Iran
• ancient Italic people
• ancient Middle East
• ancient Rome
• Andean cultures
• Archaic culture
• Assyria
• Aterian industry
• Aurignacian culture
• Australian Aboriginal peoples
• Azilian industry
• Badarian culture
• Banpo culture
• Big-Game Hunting Tradition
• Boian culture
• Capsian industry
• Carthage
• Chavín
• Chellean industry
• Choukoutienian industry
• Clactonian industry
• Dawenkou culture
• Desert cultures
• Dong Son culture
• Dorset culture
• El Argar
• Erlitou culture
• Ertebølle industry
• Fauresmith industry
• Gerzean culture
• Ghassulian culture
• Hohokam culture
• Hongshan culture
• Ibero-Maurusian industry
• Indus civilization
• Inugsuk culture
• Ipiutak culture
• Jōmon culture
• Kachemak culture
• Kurgan culture
• Lapita culture
• LBK culture
• Longshan culture
• Lupemban industry
• Magdalenian culture
• Maglemosian industry
• Magosian industry
• Mesopotamia
• Minoan civilization
• Mississippian culture
• Moche
• Mogollon culture
• Mousterian industry
• Mycenaean civilization
• Nachikufan industry
• Natufian culture
• Nazca
• Nok culture
• Old Cordilleran culture
• Oldowan industry
• Osteodontokeratic tool industry
• Paracas
• Perigordian industry
• Phoenicia
• pre-Columbian civilizations
• Qijia culture
• Recuay
• Sangoan industry
• Solutrean industry
• Stillbay industry
• Tasian culture
• Tayacian industry
• Teotihuacán civilization
• Thule culture
• Trypillya culture
• Urnfield culture
• Villanovan culture
• Woodland cultures
• Yangshao culture
• Yayoi culture