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Tagsaceramic
9 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Early Central Anatolian Aceramic/Early Ceramic Neolithic · Central Anatolian Neolithic (Konya Plain local)
PPN ancestor of Çatalhöyük — oval wattle-and-daub houses with bead-rich burials marking early sedentary foragers.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Aceramic Neolithic (PPNB equivalent) · Central Anatolian Neolithic
Pre-Pottery Neolithic tell (c.8200–7400 BCE) on the Melendiz in Cappadocia, earliest village with brain surgery (trepanation) and animal pen dung layers showing caprine management toward…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Aceramic Neolithic to Late Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic · Central Anatolian (Aşıklı → Çatalhöyük related)
Major Aceramic to Chalcolithic tell (c.7500–5500 BCE) on Çiftlik Plain at Göllü Dağ obsidian source — Cappadocian Neolith obsidian factory.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Aceramic Neolithic to Early Pottery Neolithic · Central/West Anatolian Neolithic
Aceramic Neolithic lakeside tell (c.7500–6500 BCE) on terrace of Lake Suğla near Karadağ, excavated 1965–71 by Jacques Bordaz.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Aceramic Neolithic (c.8500–7300 BCE; Abdul Hosein phase) · Zagros PPN (Abdul Hosein horizon)
Luristan PPN eponym (8500 BCE) on Seimareh — coarse ware before Deh Luran.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Aceramic Neolithic (c.8500–7700 BCE) · Zagros PPN (Sheikh-e Abad horizon)
Sahneh PPN mound (8500 BCE) with plastered houses and early goat — sister to Ganj Dareh.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Aceramic to Bakun Neolithic (c.7000–4200 BCE; Jari horizon) · Mushki → Jari → Shamsabad → Bakun (Marvdasht Neolithic)
Marvdasht Plain Neolithic reference mound (7000–4200 BCE) with Mushki to Bakun sequence near Persepolis.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Aceramic to Ceramic Neolithic (c.8200–7600 BCE) · Zagros PPN/Pottery Neolithic (Ganj Dareh horizon)
Zagros goat-domestication mound (8200 BCE) with two-storey pisé houses east of Kermanshah.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Aceramic to Pottery Neolithic (c.8000–7500 BCE; cluster horizon) · Zagros PPN cluster (Ganj Dareh variant)
Harsin satellite PPN hamlet (8000 BCE) 2 km west of classic Ganj Dareh.
