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7 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (Uruk to ED) · Proto-Elamite / Jemdet Nasr
Early highland proto-ziggurat at Tepe Musiyan, Deh Luran — 50×70 m oval platform c.3100 BCE linking Uruk Susiana to Elamite highland terraces.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Early Village – Archaic Susiana (6000–5000 BCE) · Deh Luran Early Village
Early Village – Archaic Susiana (6000–5000 BCE) tell of Deh Luran Early Village in Ilam Province, Deh Luran Plain (c.6000 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Early Village to Islamic (6000 BCE–1000 CE; peaks Ubaid–Uruk and Old Elamite) · Deh Luran Village → Ubaid → Uruk → Proto-Elamite → Elamite → Islamic
Deh Luran's largest tell (15.5 ha) with 6000 BCE-to-Elamite sequence and Amorite seal.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Chalcolithic – Early Dynastic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic–Early Dynastic
Late Chalcolithic – Early Dynastic (3500–2600 BCE) tell of Late Chalcolithic–Early Dynastic in Ilam Province, Deh Luran Plain (c.3500 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Ceramic Neolithic to Chalcolithic (c.6000–4000 BCE) · Ali Kosh → Chagha Sefid → Sabz → Farukh (Deh Luran Ceramic)
Deh Luran Ceramic Neolithic painted centre (6000 BCE) succeeding Ali Kosh.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
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.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Neolithic (Bus Mordeh–Khazineh, c.7500–5800 BCE) · Deh Luran early Neolithic (Zagros)
Deh Luran tell 5 m high (c.7500–5800 BCE, Bus Mordeh–Khazineh, goat lentil) in Deh Luran plain.
