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🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic-Early Bronze (4000-2800 BCE) · Proto-Elamite
Tepe Sialk Necropolis B Extension South — Southern Extension in Isfahan, Kashan, Iran is a Chalcolithic-Early Bronze (4000-2800 BCE) tell attributed to Proto-Elamite.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Kayatha 2400–1700 → Malwa 1700–1500 BCE → Historic · Kayatha–Ahar–Malwa–Jorwe Chalcolithic sequence
Malwa Chalcolithic mega-village (2100–1500 BCE) south of Kayatha — 8 ha type assemblage of painted Malwa ware with 200 houses per phase.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age through Ummayad Abbasid (c.3000 BCE–750 CE); EBA, MBA, Assyrian, Roman, Islamic · EBA → Assyrian Bit-Adini → Aramaean → Hellenistic-Roman Carrhae → Ummayad Islamic
Bibliographic Harran tell — EBA to Ummayad capital of moon-god Sin (Haran) under medieval beehive city (c.3000 BCE–750 CE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic-Early Bronze (4000-2800 BCE) · Proto-Elamite
Tepe Sialk Necropolis B Extension South — Eastern Outlier in Isfahan, Kashan, Iran is a Chalcolithic-Early Bronze (4000-2800 BCE) tell attributed to Proto-Elamite.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic (5700-4500 BCE) · Vinca Culture
Vinca Belo Brdo Deep Sounding East — Southern Extension in Belgrade, Vinca, Serbia is a Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic (5700-4500 BCE) tell attributed to Vinca Culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Middle Neolithic through Eneolithic (Boian → Vădastra → Gumelnița) · Boian → Vădastra → Gumelnița
Vădastra Tell (Vădastra Type-Site Terrace) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Olt County, Vădastra Commune, Danube terrace, Oltenia plain, Romania — Vădastra eponymous type-site — stratified…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Kayatha 2400–1700 BCE → Malwa 1700–1500 → Early Historic · Kayatha Chalcolithic → Ahar → Malwa → Sunga-Kushan-Gupta
Type-site of Malwa Kayatha Chalcolithic culture (2400–1700 BCE) on Choti Kali Sindh — earliest farming village in Malwa with five-period stratigraphy.
🇲🇱 Mali · Tell
Iron Age-Classic (250 BCE-900 CE) · Djenne Culture
Djenne-Djeno Mound Urban Quarter North Annex — Southern Extension in Mopti, Djenne, Mali is a Iron Age-Classic (250 BCE-900 CE) tell attributed to Djenne Culture.
🇲🇱 Mali · Tell
Iron Age-Classic (250 BCE-900 CE) · Djenne Culture
Djenne-Djeno Mound Urban Quarter North Annex — Western Terrace in Mopti, Djenne, Mali is a Iron Age-Classic (250 BCE-900 CE) tell attributed to Djenne Culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (4000-2000 BCE) · Hissar Culture
Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West — Western Terrace in Semnan, Damghan, Iran is a Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (4000-2000 BCE) tell attributed to Hissar Culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (4000-2000 BCE) · Hissar Culture
Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West — Northern Annex in Semnan, Damghan, Iran is a Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (4000-2000 BCE) tell attributed to Hissar Culture.
🇲🇱 Mali · Tell
Iron Age-Classic (250 BCE-900 CE) · Djenne Culture
Djenne-Djeno Mound Urban Quarter North Annex — Eastern Outlier in Mopti, Djenne, Mali is a Iron Age-Classic (250 BCE-900 CE) tell attributed to Djenne Culture.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8500 BCE) · Natufian-PPN
Jericho Pre-Pottery Tower Annex North in Jericho Governorate, Palestine is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8500 BCE) tell attributed to Natufian-PPN.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ubaid to Ur III (6500–2000 BCE; peak Ubaid 5500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid (southern Mesopotamian) → Uruk → Early Dynastic → Ur III
Type-site of the Ubaid period — low mound with tripartite temples and ophidian figurines.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze through Iron Age (EBA, Mitanni, Aramaean Arpad, Neo-Assyrian) · EB → Hurrian → Aramaean Bit-Agusi → Assyrian
Tell Rifa'at (Arpad / Arpad of Bit-Agusi) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Aleppo Governorate, az-Zahra plain, north of Aleppo, Syria — Aramaean Bit-Agusi kingdom capital — rival to Samʾal…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic-Early Bronze (4000-2800 BCE) · Proto-Elamite
Tepe Sialk Necropolis B Extension South in Isfahan, Kashan, Iran is a Chalcolithic-Early Bronze (4000-2800 BCE) tell attributed to Proto-Elamite.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (4000-2000 BCE) · Hissar Culture
Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West in Semnan, Damghan, Iran is a Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (4000-2000 BCE) tell attributed to Hissar Culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Classic to Epiclassic Chalchihuites (c.300–900 CE); Classic Suchil 300–500 CE, Alta Vista phase 600–800 CE · Chalchihuites (Suchil–Canutillo–Alta Vista) frontier mining–agricultural with Sierra Madre turquoise
Chalchihuites cinnabar–turquoise mining village (c.300–900 CE) with pyramid and ore roasting pits supplying Pueblo Bonito turquoise.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Early to Middle Bronze Age (Giyan III–IV) · Elamite / Highland Zagros (Giyan culture)
Zagros highland terrace shrine at Tepe Giyan c.2800–1700 BCE — 40 m proto-ziggurat mound linking Elamite terraces to later Median fire temples.
🇲🇱 Mali · Tell
Iron Age-Classic (250 BCE-900 CE) · Djenne Culture
Djenne-Djeno Mound Urban Quarter North Annex in Mopti, Djenne, Mali is a Iron Age-Classic (250 BCE-900 CE) tell attributed to Djenne Culture.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Early Chalcolithic Vinča culture (c.5400–4500 BCE); Vinča A–D mining camps 5400–4650 BCE · Vinča (early Chalcolithic Danubian–Balkan copper pioneers)
Europe’s earliest copper mine (c.5400–4500 BCE) — 45 shafts with Vinča picks and firesetting on Danube gorge.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Tell Leilan Acropolis Palace East Wing in Al-Hasakah, Tell Leilan, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Classic to Epiclassic (c.300–900 CE); Classic 300–600 CE, Epiclassic fortified 600–900 CE · Central Veracruz–Puebla highland (Cantona sphere) → Epiclassic Tepeyahualco–Totonac fringe
Cantona-linked lava-field fortress town (c.300–900 CE) with obsidian workshops on Malinche flank (García Cook).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Southern Neolithic 2800–1200 BCE → Megalithic 1000 BCE · Southern Neolithic Ash Mound → Megalithic
Giant 15 m ash mound (2800–1200 BCE) at Kudatini Ballari — three-burnt dung lenses with megalithic circle on summit.
