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🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (7000–2600 BCE, earliest South Asian farming village) · Balochistan Neolithic (Mehrgarh culture, Kili Gul Mohammad)
Mehrgarh Mound — Kacchi Bolan in Balochistan, Kacchi Plain at foot of Bolan Pass (near Dadhar), Pakistan is a Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (7000–2600 BCE, earliest South Asian farming village)…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) · Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE)
Yunatsite Tell in Pazardzhik Province, Yunatsite village, Bulgaria is a Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) settlement attributed to Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) culture.
🇲🇱 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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE) · Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE)
Tell el-Farkha in Dakahlia Governorate, Eastern Delta, Ghazala, Egypt is a Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE) settlement attributed to Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE) culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Early Neolithic Starčevo–Dudeşti (6000–5000 BCE) · Early Neolithic Starčevo–Dudeşti (6000–5000 BCE)
Măgura Tell (Buduiasca) in Teleorman County, Măgura-Buduiasca, Romania is a Early Neolithic Starčevo–Dudeşti (6000–5000 BCE) settlement attributed to Early Neolithic Starčevo–Dudeşti (6000–5000 BCE)…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Middle Bronze to Hellenistic (Karum → Neo-Hittite/Tabal, Iron Age, Hellenistic) · Hittite/Luwian → Tabal → Neo-Hittite (Luwian-Phrygian contact)
Neo-Hittite/Iron Age tell (ancient Tynna) on Cilician Gates — Hittite citadel, Luwian inscriptions and Tabal fortifications.
🇲🇽 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).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk → Nineveh 5 (5000–3000 BCE) · Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk → Nineveh 5 (5000–3000 BCE)
Tell Mashnaqa in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur, near Kawkab, Syria is a Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk → Nineveh 5 (5000–3000 BCE) settlement attributed to Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk → Nineveh 5…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Early Harappan to Mature Harappan (3300–1900 BCE, Rehman Dheri I–III) · Early Harappan (Rehman Dheri culture, Kot Diji–Harappan)
Rehman Dheri Mound — Gomal Plain in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dera Ismail Khan, Gomal plain (Rehman Dheri), Pakistan is a Early Harappan to Mature Harappan (3300–1900 BCE, Rehman Dheri I–III) pyramid/mound…
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE) · Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE)
Stubline in Belgrade District, Obrenovac, Kolubara Valley, Serbia is a Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE) settlement attributed to Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE) culture.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE, westernmost Indus outpost, 550 km west of Kot Bala) · Harappan (western coastal outpost)
Sutkagen Dor Mound — Makran in Balochistan, Gwadar District, Dasht plateau (westernmost Harappan settlement), Pakistan is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE, westernmost Indus outpost, 550 km west of…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic (6000–3500 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic (6000–3500 BCE)
Tell Zaidan (Zaidan) in Ar-Raqqah Governorate, Balikh Valley, near Raqqa, Syria is a Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic (6000–3500 BCE) settlement attributed to Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic…
🇺🇸 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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze III through Medieval (EBA, MBA, LBA Izziya, Iron Age, Classical, Byzantine) · Cilician coastal / Hittite (Izziya) → Syro-Cilician → Classical Greek/Roman
Coastal tell (Bronze Age Izziya, Classical Issos) — 5 kyr harbour sequence from EB III to Medieval, Alexander battlefield anchor.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Early Historic to Classical (200 BCE–500 CE, Indo-Greek, Kushan, Gupta) · Buddhist Gandhara (Taxila, Kushan, Indo-Greek heritage)
Julian Mound — Taxila Pyramidal Stupa in Punjab, Taxila Valley, Jaulian (Mohre Maliaran, Taxila), Pakistan is a Early Historic to Classical (200 BCE–500 CE, Indo-Greek, Kushan, Gupta) pyramid/mound…
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient village
Iron Age to Medieval (350 BCE–1150 CE) · Soninke / Ghana sphere (Mema)
12-ha isolated 11-m tell 350 BCE–1150 CE in Mema with 2.5-m wall and copper jewellery horizon.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf-Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → EBA/Uruk (5900–3100 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk (North Mesopotamian painted then Uruk expansion)
Halaf-Ubaid (5900–4800 BCE) Uruk-contact village — 4 ha buried Euphrates village, Birecik Dam salvage type-site.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE) · Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE)
Hârşova Tell in Constanța County, Danube, Hârșova town, Romania is a Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE) settlement attributed to Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE) culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic → EB I–III → MBA (4300–2000 BCE) · Pontic EBA (Kızılırmak Black Sea, Balkan-Caucasus interface)
Black Sea delta cemetery-tell (4300–2000 BCE) — 2400 EBA gifted graves with arsenical copper, Pontic metallurgy nexus.
🇺🇸 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…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic through Byzantine; EBA II-III, Hittite, Phrygian, Byzantine · Central Anatolian; Late Chalcolithic, EBA, Hittite Empire, Phrygia
Pleiades Bronze-Iron Age plateau tell (240×140 m) with Chalcolithic to Hittite-Phrygian stratigraphy on Kanak Su, Yozgat — type-site for plateau continuity.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (c.4500–4200 BCE); KGK VI complex (Kodžadermen–Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI) · KGK VI Chalcolithic (Balkan Late Copper Age) Ludogorie facies
Ludogorie Chalcolithic fortified tell (c.4500–4200 BCE) with KGK VI burnt horizons and double ditch — Todorova.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Early Historic to Early Medieval (100 BCE–700 CE, Kushan–Gandhara) · Buddhist Gandhara (Kushan, Indo-Parthian, Huna)
Takht-i-Bahi Pyramidal Monastery — Mardan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mardan District, Takht-i-Bahi hill spur, Pakistan is a Early Historic to Early Medieval (100 BCE–700 CE, Kushan–Gandhara)…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age through Iron Age II (c.3000–717 BCE); Neolithic substratum · EBA–MBA Euphrates town → Hittite viceroyalty → Neo-Hittite Luwian-Aramaean
80 ha Euphrates tell — Hittite viceregal capital and Neo-Hittite sculpture city on Turkish-Syrian border (c.3000–717 BCE).
