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🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1200–1450 CE) · Hohokam Classic Period (Los Muertos–Pueblo Grande cluster)
Los Muertos Tempe Hohokam Settlement South is the southern canal village of Los Muertos — one of the largest Classic Period Hohokam canal villages on the Salt River south bank opposite Pueblo Grande.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Malwa 1700 BCE → Jorwe 1400–1000 BCE → Early Historic 600 BCE–200 CE · Malwa–Jorwe Chalcolithic (Narmada) → Satavahana
Type Narmada Chalcolithic village (1800–1000 BCE) on Narmada gorge opposite Maheshwar — 30 houses per phase, 7 m deposit.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ubaid 0 through Ubaid I (c.6500–5500 BCE); late Samarra–Hajji Muhammad horizon · Samarra–Ubaid 0 (Oueili phase) → Ubaid 1 (Hajji Muhammad) southern Mesopotamian
Ubaid 0 (c.6500–5500 BCE) earliest village in southern Mesopotamia predating Eridu — 11 m sounding with buttressed temple (Huot).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Hassuna–Samarran, Ubaid (6000–4800 BCE) · Samarra culture
Type mound for Samarran culture immediately south of Samarra on cliff overlooking Tigris floodplain, excavated by al-Adhami and Yasin (1964–69).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic to Medieval (4300 BCE–1400 CE) · Chalcolithic → EB → MBA → Hittite → Hellenistic → Islamic
Lidar Höyük Euphrates Terrace is the 8.5-ha southern alluvial terrace below Lidar Höyük main mound on the Euphrates right bank — excavated by Hauptmann before the Atatürk reservoir rose.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Chalcolithic through Iron III; EB-MBA peak · Syrian EBA → Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Aramaean Luash
Idlib tell (26 ha) with Neolithic–Iron III sequence, MBA walls and Iron Temple of the Luash dynasty — findspot of Zakkur Stele, Hittite-period storage horizon.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Halaf Late Neolithic (Ubaid predecessor) to Iron Age Neo-Hittite Aramaean · Halaf painted ware → Aramaean Syro-Hittite (Kapara, Bit Bahiani)
Double-significance mound: type-site of Halaf culture Late Neolithic mass-produced painted pottery (c.6100–5400 BCE) that spread from Zagros to Mediterranean — defined 1911 by Oppenheim/ Schmidt; and…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Middle to Late Chalcolithic (Petreşti A-B) · Petreşti (Vinča → Gumelniţa contemporary Transylvanian)
Type-site of Petreşti painted ware culture (c.5000–3500 BCE, Middle to Late Chalcolithic) — Transylvania's Late Neolithic polychrome (red-white-black geometric) rivalling Cucuteni, on Sebeș River…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age I-III to Iron Age; lignite-sealed · Western Anatolian EBA (Yortan-like) → MBA Hittite influence
Western Anatolian EBA proto-urban tell (170×185 m) with EBA I-III fortified town, early tin-bronze and mass burial, rescued ahead of coal mining.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
EB through Persian; LB-Iron cemetery peak · Canaanite → Egyptian residency (LB) → Philistine/Sea Peoples → Iron Ammonite
Jordan Valley cemetery tell — 500-grave LB–Iron cemetery with Egyptian anthropoid coffins, Philistine Bichrome and Jerusalem-frame burials, British Museum 1985–2013.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Chalcolithic–Iron Age (4200–700 BCE), Melid proper c.1100–700 BCE · Late Chalcolithic palace → Neo-Hittite Luwian kingdom of Kammanu/Melid
Neo-Hittite Melid capital (Iron Age successor to Arslantepe palace, UNESCO 1622) on Malatya plain.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Iron (3000 BCE–700 BCE) · EBA Syrian → Mittani → Hittite → Iron Age Neo-Hittite
Tell Hadidi Northern Fortification is the north casemate wall-tower line of Tell Hadidi (Azu) — the Late Bronze city Azu across the Euphrates from Tell es-Sweyhat.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Isin-Larsa, Old Babylonian · Akkadian/Amorite — Old Babylonian
Mound in eastern Baghdad now within urban fringe, excavated by Taha Baqir (1945–63), preserving complete Old Babylonian administrative quarter with 3000 cuneiform tablets covering law, mathematics…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Kayatha–Malwa 2400–1400 BCE · Malwa Chalcolithic — Dangwada phase with Kayatha substratum
Dangwada Malwa Settlement — Malwa Chalcolithic village (1650–1400 BCE) on Malwa plateau west of Ujjain, excavated 1978–80 and 1992 by V.S.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Predynastic Chalcolithic to Early Dynastic · Buto-Maadi Culture → Naqada II-III interaction
Delta Predynastic tell (1.2 ha) with Buto-Maadi houses and Naqada graves interdigitated — key for Lower vs Upper Egyptian state formation, c.3500 BCE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Early Neolithic (Aceramic) · Central Anatolian PPN
Asikli Hoyuk Early Village Cappadocia at Aksaray, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Early Neolithic (Aceramic) ancient village of the Central Anatolian PPN tradition, built c.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Early to Late Neolithic (c.5800–3300 BCE) · Thessalian Neolithic (Sesklo–Dimini sequence)
Sesklo (Early to Middle Neolithic c.5800–4400 BCE, Chalcolithic to 3300 BCE) is Thessaly's classic tell settlement 8 km west of Volos, a 13-m stratigraphic mound (Sesklo A acropolis 100 × 80 m) plus…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pre-Classic to Classic Hohokam (600–1200 CE) · Hohokam Pre-Classic (Colonial–Sedentary) → Early Classic
Snaketown East Darby Hohokam Settlement is the field-house hamlet cluster 3 km east of Snaketown's ballcourt on the Gila north terrace — Rice's Pima–Gila settlement model periphery.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Southern Neolithic 3000–1200 BCE → Megalithic–Iron 1000 BCE–100 CE · Southern Neolithic → Megalithic (Bellary)
Ballari granite hill Neolithic–Megalithic village (3000 BCE–100 CE) with burnished ware and iron cists on dolerite axe ridge.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Old Babylonian · Shamshi-Adad / Shubat-Enlil
Tell Leilan Shubat-Enlil Palace at Hassakeh, Tell Leilan, Syria is a Old Babylonian ancient city of the Shamshi-Adad / Shubat-Enlil tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early to Middle Bronze (3100–2100 BCE) · Ninevite V → EBA Urban → Akkadian
Titriş Höyük Outer Settlement is the 28-ha extramural sprawl beyond the walled lower town — together 43 ha, the largest EBA city in the Turkish Euphrates zone before state formation.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pre-Classic to Classic Hohokam (800–1200 CE) · Hohokam Pre-Classic–Classic Gila Bend phase
Gatlin Site Gila Bend Hohokam Village is the platform-mound village at the Gila River's great bend 80 km southwest of Phoenix — an isolated Hohokam outpost where the Gila bends 90 degrees.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic–Iron Age (c.4000–800 BCE) · Ubaid → Early Transcaucasian → Hurrian → Hittite → Urartian hinterland
Keban rescue tell (Ubaid–Iron Age, 35 m high, EBA palace) now submerged under Lake Keban.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hittite Empire (Old to New Kingdom) · Hittite (Nesite with Hurrian scribes)
Hittite administrative second capital (c.1600–1180 BCE, peak 1400–1200 BCE) on two hills Ağılönü and Tepelerarası, built by Hatti kings as storehouse/forward capital during Kaskaean wars when Hattusa…
