🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tilki Tepe
Chalcolithic-EBA (c.5000-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes / Early Transcaucasian (Karaz-Pulur)
Tilki Tepe — buried chalcolithic-eba tell/village at Van Province.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Batash
MB to Iron Age (c.2000–600 BCE; peak Philistine Timnah c.1200–600) · Canaanite → Philistine (Timnah) → Judah
Tel Batash is biblical Timnah in Sorek Valley — Samson's Timnah (Judges 14) and Philistine border town between Ekron and Gezer. Mazar/Kelm 1977–89 revealed MB g...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tülintepe
Halaf to Middle Ages (c.5800 BCE–1200 CE; Halaf-Ubaid transition type) · Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → Early Bronze → Medieval
Altınova Halaf-Ubaid type mound (5800 BCE) 1 km from Norşuntepe, now under Keban Lake.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Korucutepe
Chalcolithic to Ottoman (c.5000 BCE–1500 CE; Kurgan elite 2600–2300 BCE) · Chalcolithic → Early Bronze Kurgan → Hittite → Urartian → Byzantine
Altınova mound with Early Bronze Maikop-affine kurgan elite tombs (2600 BCE) at Elazığ.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Tell Chuera — Steinbau Terrace and High Temple
Early Dynastic to Late 3rd Millennium, c.3000–2200 BCE · Early Dynastic Sumerian (Khabur)
Kleine Antentempel and Steinbau 1 high terrace at Tell Chuera (ancient Harran? c.3000–2200 BCE, Early Dynastic).
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Tell
Togolok 1
BMAC Bronze Age (c.2400–1600 BCE; Togolok phase 2200–1800) · BMAC (Togolok temple of Gonur)
Togolok 1 is the BMAC temple-fort satellite of Gonur — 140-m square enclosure with corner towers, central bastioned cult fortress and fire ritual basin. Sariani...
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell el-Ghassil
Middle Bronze to Iron Age (c.1800–600 BCE; 11 levels) · MB IIB → Late Bronze → Iron I–II (Bekaa Canaanite-Phoenician)
Bekaa agrarian tell with 11 levels (1800–600 BCE) and womb-burial inside AREC farm near Baalbek.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Değirmentepe
Ubaid-related Late Chalcolithic (c.4200–3400 BCE) · North Mesopotamian Ubaid-related (Değirmentepe) → Late Chalcolithic Transcaucasian
Ubaid tripartite chiefly centre (4200 BCE) copying Mesopotamian temple plan north of Malatya.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Aşvan Kale
Chalcolithic to Medieval (c.5000 BCE–1400 CE; fortified from Early Bronze) · Chalcolithic → Early Bronze (Transcaucasian) → Hittite → Urartian → Roman-Byzantine
Keban rescue fort (7 ka) on Murat River — Transcaucasian EB and Byzantine fort now under reservoir.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Ali Kosh
Early Neolithic (c.7500–6000 BCE; Ali Kosh sequence 7500–6000 BCE) · Bus Mordeh → Ali Kosh → Mohammed Jaffar (Deh Luran)
Deh Luran Neolithic eponym (7500–6000 BCE) defining Iran's Bus Mordeh–Ali Kosh sequence.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Yarim Tepe
Hassuna to Ubaid (c.5900–4300 BCE; Yarim multi-period) · Hassuna → Halaf → Ubaid (Yarim I–III)
Three-mound Hassuna-Halaf-Ubaid reference sequence (5900–4300 BCE) on Sinjar plain.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Choga Mami
Samarran to Ubaid (c.6000–5000 BCE; Samarran floruit 6000–5500 BCE) · Samarran → Choga Mami Transitional → Ubaid
Samarran irrigated village (6000 BCE) with earliest canal (2 km) east of Mandali.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Abdul Hosein
Aceramic Neolithic (c.8500–7300 BCE; Abdul Hosein phase) · Zagros PPN (Abdul Hosein horizon)
Luristan PPN eponym (8500 BCE) on Seimareh — coarse ware before Deh Luran.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Abr
PPNA to PPNB (c.9600–8000 BCE) · PPNA → PPNB (Euphrates Neolithic)
PPNA-PPNB village (9600–8000 BCE) with lime-plaster houses on Euphrates Tishrin plain.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Umm Dabaghiyah
Pottery Neolithic (c.6000–5800 BCE; single horizon) · Hassuna-related onager-hunting specialized
Onager-hunting camp (6000 BCE) with painted hunt murals and 4,000 onager bones on Hatra steppe.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Seh Gabi
Halaf to Ubaid-Chalcolithic (c.5600–3800 BCE) · Halaf-related → Seh Gabi/Dalma → Ubaid Kangavar
Kangavar Halaf-Dalma type mound (5600–3800 BCE) with Seh Gabi painted ware north of Islamabad.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Jerablus Tahtani
Ubaid to Early Bronze (c.5000–2200 BCE; EB II centre) · Ubaid → Uruk → Early Bronze Euphrates / Carchemish periphery
Euphrates ford town (5000–2200 BCE) with EB II wall 5 km south of Carchemish.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Toptepe
Neolithic-Chalcolithic (c.6000-3500 BCE) · Kırklareli–Karanovo to Gumelnița-Karanovo VI
Toptepe — buried neolithic-chalcolithic tell/village at Kırklareli Province.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Kosak Shamali
Ubaid to Uruk (c.5500–3200 BCE; Uruk station c.3700–3200 BCE) · Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk expansion
Northernmost Uruk station (3700–3200 BCE) on Upper Euphrates with tripartite compound north of Raqqa.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tall-e Jari A
Aceramic to Bakun Neolithic (c.7000–4200 BCE; Jari horizon) · Mushki → Jari → Shamsabad → Bakun (Marvdasht Neolithic)
Marvdasht Plain Neolithic reference mound (7000–4200 BCE) with Mushki to Bakun sequence near Persepolis.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Telul eth-Thalathat
Hassuna to Uruk (c.6000–3100 BCE; Halaf-Ubaid emphasis) · Hassuna → Halaf (Thalathat painted) → Ubaid → Uruk
Five-mound Halaf-Ubaid reference (6000–3100 BCE) on Wadi Khuzna south of Tel Afar.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Ancient village
Hazendonk Donk Settlement
Middle to Late Neolithic · Hazendonk Group / Vlaardingen
Neolithic river dune (donk) settlement Hazendonk (c. 4000–2000 BCE) on Rhine-Meuse levee, type-site for Hazendonk Group pottery.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Ancient village
Swifterbant S3 Settlement
Middle Neolithic (Swifterbant) · Swifterbant
Swifterbant culture river dune settlement S3 (c. 4300–4000 BCE) on buried levee in former Flevoland wetland, with pottery, antler, bone and early cereal evidence.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tal-i Iblis
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (c.5000–2500 BCE; Iblis I–VI) · Yahya-related Chalcolithic → Early Bronze Kerman
Kerman Chalcolithic copper centre (5000 BCE) with earliest slag/crucibles south of Kerman.