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
- The 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