🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Hassek Höyük
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Hassek Höyük — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Şanlıurfa Province.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Nevali Çori North Bank — Cult Building Ridge
PPNA to early PPNB (8600–7900 BCE) · PPNB Nemrik-Pre-Pottery Euphrates
PPNB T-pillar cult ridge — 8400 BCE terrazzo temple north bank (Hauptmann).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tepecik
Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.3500–2200 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic → Early Transcaucasian/Karabaz
Altınova EBA cemetery-village (c.3500–2200 BCE, 47 cist graves, Karaz ware) by Lake Keban.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Aqab Settlement Ridge
Halaf to Ninevite V (5900–2600 BCE) · Halaf → Northern Ubaid → Uruk → Ninevite V
Tell Aqab Settlement Ridge is the Halaf–Ubaid–Uruk ridge on the Upper Khabur headwaters near Amuda — excavated by Davidson & McKerrell as the Halaf-Ubaid transition key in inland Syria.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tall-e Bakun
Chalcolithic (Bakun, c.4000–3500 BCE) · Fars Chalcolithic Bakun culture
Marv Dasht Bakun twin mounds (c.4000–3500 BCE, painted Bakun ware, sealings, pillared hall) 3 km S Persepolis.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Fıstıklı Höyük
Halaf → Northern Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk fringe
Halaf-Ubaid village (6200–5000 BCE) — 3 ha Euphrates hamlet, Pollock Birecik Dam salvage.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Lidar Höyük
Neolithic → EBA → MBA Karum → LBA → Iron → Medieval (6000 BCE–1500 CE) · Halaf → Euphrates EBA → Assyrian Karum → Mitanni/Hittite
Euphrates peninsula tell (Neolithic–Medieval) — 12 m double mound with Karum tablets, Hauptmann salvage.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell
Trypillia (Trypillya) Type Site
Chalcolithic (5500–3500 BCE, Trypillia A–CI) · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Eponymous type site of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, excavated 1893 by Vikentiy Khvoika (Chvojka) on the Dnieper near Kyiv.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell el-ʿObeid
Ubaid to Ur III (c.5500–2000 BCE; temple sequence defines Chalcolithic Eridu–Ubaid horizon) · Ubaid → Uruk → Early Dynastic → Ur III
Type-site of Ubaid period — 1919 Ninhursag temple with copper bulls gave Chalcolithic its name.
🇬🇷 Greece · Tell
Dikili Tash
Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic-EBA (c.6000-2500 BCE) · Balkan Chalcolithic-EBA (Gumelnița-Karanovo–Vinča)
Dikili Tash — buried late tell/village at Eastern Macedonia.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tille Höyük
EB → MBA → LBA → Iron Age → Hellenistic (3000–100 BCE) · Euphratean → Hittite → Neo-Hittite/Assyrian
Euphrates tell (EB–Iron, Hittite-Assyrian) — 18 m island mound, Atatürk Dam salvage type-site.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Salat Tepe (Salat Cami Yanı)
Late Neolithic to Neo-Assyrian (Ubaid → Assyrian) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk → Karaz → Hurrian-Mitanni → Assyrian
Bismil Tigris tell (5500 BCE through Iron) with Ubaid→Assyrian 4 m graded sequence — long agrarian continuity through 5.2 and 4.2kya arid events.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Girsu
Early Dynastic to Ur III (c.3500–2000 BCE; peak Lagash 2500–2144 BCE) · Sumerian Lagash (ÉNSI rulers: Ur-Nanshe, Eannatum, Enmetena, Gudea)
Girsu (modern Tello/Telloh) is the sacred city of Lagash state — first Sumerian city ever excavated (1877) yielding Gudea diorite statues, Gudea cylinders (worl...
🇵🇪 Peru · Tell
Yachaymarca (Yachay Marca)
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (c.1000-1532 CE) · Andean Late Intermediate-Late Horizon (Wari–Inca)
Yachaymarca (Yachay Marca) — buried late tell/village at Ancash Region.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Sukas (Shuksu)
MBA through Classical · Canaanite MBA → Ugaritic Shuksi (LB) → Phoenician → Greek emporion
Syrian coastal harbour tell (Shuksi) with MBA to Greek emporion — MBA Canaanite, LB Mycenaean imports and Phoenician Euboean emporion, Danish 1958 dig.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Lachish
Neolithic to Persian (c.5000–400 BCE; peak Judah fortress 900–586 BCE) · Canaanite → Judahite fortress → Assyrian → Persian
Tel Lachish is the great Judahite fortress-city (second after Jerusalem), famed for 701 BCE Sennacherib siege ramp — Assyrian reliefs at Nineveh show Lachish ba...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Merimde Beni Salama
Neolithic Merimde culture (4800–4300 BCE) · Lower Egyptian Neolithic (Merimde)
Merimde Beni Salama is Egypt's largest Neolithic village, 4800–4300 BCE Merimde culture, 44 ha mound with 1.5 m stratigraphy, oval houses 5×3 m wattle-and-daub, burial in settlement, lithics,…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Keet Seel Cliff Dwelling
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Keet Seel Cliff Dwelling — buried ancestral tell/village at Arizona.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Hasanlu
Bronze to Iron Age (c.3000 BCE–600 BCE; peak Hasanlu IV 1100–800 BCE) · Giyan → Hasanlu IV (Mannaean/Urartian sphere) → Urartian
Hasanlu is the great Iron Age walled city south of Lake Urmia — Hasanlu IV (1100–800 BCE) citadel with columned halls, ivory workshop, and violent destruction b...
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Betatakin Cliff Dwelling
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Betatakin Cliff Dwelling — buried ancestral tell/village at Arizona.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Homolovi II Pueblo
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Homolovi II Pueblo — buried ancestral tell/village at Arizona.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Kin Biniola Chaco Outlier
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Kin Biniola Chaco Outlier — buried ancestral tell/village at New Mexico.
🇲🇩 Moldova · Ancient village
Varvarovka (Varvarovca) Cucuteni-Trypillia Settlement
Chalcolithic (3800–3500 BCE, Cucuteni B) · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Terraced settlement on the Reut river, Cucuteni B / Trypillia BII (c.3800–3500 BCE), ca. 8 ha with dense house clusters and flint workshops. Excavated by T. Passek 1950s and V.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Azcapotzalco (Tepanec capital)
Postclassic (c.1200-1521 CE) · Mesoamerican Postclassic (Tepanec-Aztec)
Azcapotzalco (Tepanec capital) — buried postclassic tell/village at Mexico City.