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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic through Iron Age (Chalcolithic, MBA, LBA Kizzuwatna, Iron) · Cilician → Kizzuwatna/Hittite → Neo-Assyrian
Tatarlı Höyük (Ceyhan Plain Cilician Mound) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Adana Province, Ceyhan District, Ceyhan River plain, Turkey — Cilician plain gateway controlling Ceyhan crossing…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze through Iron Age · Hattian/EBA → Assyrian Colony → Hittite → Phrygian
Eskiyapar Höyük (Eskiyapar / Alaca Ridge) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Çorum Province, Alaca District, Alaca plain, Turkey — Karum-period trade town and Hittite road station linking…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1150–1450 CE) · Hohokam (O'odham ancestral) Classic Period (Soho–Civano phases)
Casa Grande Hohokam South Compound is the Classic Period platform-mound village south of the Casa Grande Great House — the iconic 4-story caliche Great House (1350 CE) on the Gila River.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pre-Classic Hohokam (400–1100 CE) · Hohokam Pre-Classic (Pioneer–Colonial–Sedentary: Vahki–Sacaton phases)
Snaketown Ballcourt South Compound is the southern ballcourt village of Snaketown — the archetypal Pre-Classic Hohokam canal town 30 miles southeast of Phoenix on the Gila north terrace (protected…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pre-Classic to Classic Hohokam (700–1300 CE) · Hohokam Pre-Classic (Colonial) → Classic Sedentary
Las Colinas Tempe Hohokam Village is the canal-lattice village at the Agua Fria–Salt River confluence west of Tempe — a Sedentary Colonial-to-Sedentary (700–1300 CE) Hohokam canal village before…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze (3100–2300 BCE) · EB Syrian (Early Dynastic contemporary) → Mortuary complex
Tell Banat White Monument South is the southern suburb below the White Monument — a 20-m-high stepped earthen mortuary mound (100 m diam) south of Tell Banat cluster on the Euphrates.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Mitanni (4000 BCE–1350 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic → EBA → MBA → Hittite → Mittani
Korucutepe Keban East Mound is the eastern salvage mound 300 m east of Korucutepe main on the Altınova plain (860 m) — twin mound testing the Keban Altınova Hittite–Mittani frontier.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Hellenistic (3500 BCE–100 BCE) · Chalcolithic Cilician → Hittite → Neo-Hittite → Hellenistic
Tatarlı Höyük South Acropolis is the southern citadel mound of Tatarlı Höyük on the Cilician plain west of the Ceyhan River — controlling the Kizzuwatna–Assyria (Qode) route.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic Late Uruk (3800–3100 BCE) · Late Uruk (South Mesopotamian colony)
Tell Habuba Kabira South Mound is the 10-ha southern colony mound of Habuba Kabira — the largest Late Uruk urban transplant outside Sumer (22 ha gridded walled city).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze (5000 BCE–1700 BCE) · Hassuna → Halaf → Ninevite V → Akkadian → Habur → Shubat-Enlil (Assyrian)
Tell Leilan (Shubat-Enlil) Satellite Mound is the 8.5-ha outer suburb 1.2 km southwest of Tell Leilan — capital of Shamshi-Adad I's Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia (Shubat-Enlil, 1800 BCE).
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pre-Classic to Classic Hohokam (800–1450 CE) · Hohokam Pre-Classic (Colonial–Sedentary) → Classic (Soho–Civano)
Pueblo Grande Phoenix Canal Mound South is the canal headgate mound south of Pueblo Grande platform — headquarters of the Phoenix Hohokam canal system (Canal Grande) that irrigated 1000 ha on the…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Early Chalcolithic to Late Chalcolithic (4600–3800 BCE) · Boian–Gumelnița → KGK VI (Kodzhadermen–Gumelnița–Karanovo VI)
Hotnitsa Tell North Settlement is the 3.2-ha north extension of the Hotnitsa Eneolithic tell on the Yantra River — a Gumelnița–KGK VI tell 15 km northeast of Veliko Tarnovo.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic (5000–4000 BCE) · Boian → Polyanitsa → Gumelnița (KGK VI)
Ovcharovo Tell North Mound is the northern tell of the Ovcharovo complex on the Ludogorie plateau — one of Todorova's Polyanitsa–Gumelnița tells documenting Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic nucleation…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6200–3800 BCE) · Starčevo → Karanovo I → Karanovo–Gumelnița
Aşağı Pınar Kırklareli Thracian Tell is the flagship Turkish Thrace tell on the Ergene floodplain south of Kırklareli — an 8-m Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic tell (6200–3800 BCE) linking Karanovo I…
🇬🇷 Greece · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (3200–1700 BCE) · Troy I–II contemporary → Aegean EBA (Poliochni culture)
Poliochni Lemnos Bronze Age Village is the fortified EBA town on Lemnos — the Aegean's earliest urban nucleus (Poliochni Azzurro–Rosso–Giallo–Verde–Rosa sequence, 3200–1700 BCE) contemporary with…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1150–1450 CE) · Hohokam Classic Period (Marana community)
Marana Hohokam Mound Phoenix Basin is the Los Robles platform mound community on the Santa Cruz River north of Tucson — Fish's Marana community (1150–1450 CE) showing Classic Hohokam platform…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pre-Classic Hohokam (500–1100 CE) · Hohokam Pre-Classic (Pioneer–Colonial–Sedentary)
Grewe Site Casa Grande North Ballcourt is the northern ballcourt village of the Grewe Site — the 18-ha Pre-Classic twin settlement north of Casa Grande Great House on the middle Gila north terrace.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Eneolithic (5200–3800 BCE) · Boian → Gumelnița (KGK VI)
Sultana-Malu Roşu Southern Extension is the southern terrace-cemetery zone south of the Sultana-Malu Roşu Gumelnița tell on the Mostiștea high terrace.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Early Neolithic to Late Chalcolithic (6200–3800 BCE) · Karanovo I–VII → KGK VI (Gumelnița–Karanovo VI)
Karanovo Tell South Sector is the southern lobe of Karanovo tell — the type-site for Balkan Neolithic–Chalcolithic chronology (Karanovo I–VII, 6200–3800 BCE) on the Thracian plain.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Late Neolithic to Eneolithic (5500–3500 BCE) · Boian → Hamangia → Gumelnița → Cernavodă
Hârşova Tell Block M is the eastern lobe of Hârşova tell — the largest tell in Romania (200×60 m base, 11 m high) on the Danube right bank above ancient Carsium.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1100–1450 CE) · Hohokam Classic Period (Pueblo Grande region)
Mesa Grande Hohokam Platform Mound Extension is the eastern lower terrace of Mesa Grande Ruin — the largest extant Hohokam platform mound in the Salt River Valley, within modern Mesa.
🇺🇸 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.
🇹🇷 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
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.