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🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Samarra through Ubaid 3 (c.5500–4100 BCE); Samarra, Hajji Muhammad, Ubaid 3 · Samarra (Choga Mami) → Hajji Muhammad → Ubaid 3 Hamrin facies
Samarra–Ubaid transition village (c.5500–4100 BCE) with tripartite houses and Iran–south assimilation — Hamrin Samarra outpost.
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Chalcolithic to Early Harappan (3800–2600 BCE, Siswal A–B) · Siswal culture (Hakra–Sothi horizon)
Siswal Mound — Haryana Saraswati in Haryana, Hisar District, Chautang (Saraswati tributary) bank (Siswal type-site), India is a Chalcolithic to Early Harappan (3800–2600 BCE, Siswal A–B)…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE, coastal Harappan) · Harappan (coastal port, Makran–Lasbela network)
Kot Bala Mound — Lasbela Balochistan in Balochistan, Lasbela District, Phor valley near coast (Harappan port), Pakistan is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE, coastal Harappan) pyramid/mound site…
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Early Bronze to Old Babylonian (2600–1726 BCE) · North Mesopotamian (Akkadian provincial, Old Assyrian)
Tell Leilan — Shekhna Mound Khabur in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur Triangle (ancient Shekhna/Shubat-Enlil), Syria is a Early Bronze to Old Babylonian (2600–1726 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) · Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE)
Trușești in Botoșani County, Trușești, Jijia Plain, Romania is a Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) settlement attributed to Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Middle Chalcolithic (Ubaid-related Late Chalcolithic 5500–4000 BCE window) · Central Anatolian Chalcolithic (Aksaray-Melendiz)
Middle Chalcolithic rocky citadel (5200–4800 BCE) — fortified island town on Melendiz obsidian route, Gülçur type-site.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Late Bronze Age through Iron Age II (c.1550–586 BCE); LB temple, Iron I Philistine, Judahite 10th–7th c. · LB Canaanite → Iron I Philistine → Iron II Judahite frontier town
Biblical Timnah (Samson) — 5 ha Philistine–Judahite border town with Iron II casemate and olive press quarter (1550–586 BCE).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE) · EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE)
Bab edh-Dhra in Karak Governorate, Wadi Araba, Dead Sea SE, Jordan is a EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE) settlement attributed to EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE) culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
PPNA → early PPNB (9600–8700 cal BCE) · PPNA Tigris (Karul Upper Tigris Neolithic)
PPNA lakeside village (9600–9300 BCE) — rectangular pisè houses on Gusir sinkhole lake, progenitor cultivation bridge Göbekli→Çayönü.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE) · Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE)
Medvednjak in Šumadija District, Smederevska Palanka, Jasenica Valley, Serbia is a Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE) settlement attributed to Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE) culture.
🇺🇸 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…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Late Neolithic through Byzantine–Islamic (c.5500 BCE–749 CE); Neolithic, EBA–MB–LB, Iron I–II, Hellenistic–Roman–Byzantine · Neolithic → Canaanite (MBA–LBA) → Iron Ammonite → Decapolis Hellenistic–Roman → Byzantine → Early Islamic
Jordan Valley gateway — MBA Canaanite town to Decapolis Pella (6000-yr, 10 ha + 30 ha lower city) with 635 CE Yarmuk layer.
🇸🇾 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
Early Bronze Age II–III through Middle Bronze (c.2600–2200 BCE peak; MBA sparse) · EBA Syro-Mesopotamian urban (Khabur-Euphrates city-state)
43 ha EBA orthogonal planned city (2600–2200 BCE) with 2.5 km wall and suburbs — largest Euphrates east-bank urban centre.
🇹🇷 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.
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Early Harappan (4000–2800 BCE, Kunal culture, Hakra ware) · Early Harappan (Kunal–Hakra ware, pre-Kot Diji)
Kunal Mound — Haryana Saraswati in Haryana, Fatehabad District, Saraswati palaeochannel (Kunal), India is a Early Harappan (4000–2800 BCE, Kunal culture, Hakra ware) pyramid/mound site attributed to…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Epipalaeolithic / PPNA transitional (Natufian-related → Pre-Pottery Neolithic) · Sason Epipaleolithic → PPNA Upper Tigris foragers
Epipalaeolithic-PPNA hamlet (c.11ky BP) with C-shaped communal auroch-bucrania building — earliest pig management and pre-Göbekli communal architecture, Sason Stream.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Early Bronze through Iron Age and Byzantine (c.3500 BCE–600 CE); LB–Iron I–II Judahite fortress 8th–6th c. BCE · EBA–LB Canaanite → Judahite fortress (Hezekiah–Zedekiah) → Babylonian destruction → Persian–Byzantine
Judahite Shfela fortress (18 ha) with Sennacherib 701 BCE and 588 BCE Babylonian destructions — Lachish letter Azekah (Iron II).
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Mature Harappan (2400–1900 BCE, Lothal dockyard phase) · Harappan (Gujarat coastal, Lothal A–B)
Lothal Mound — Gujarat Harappan Port in Gujarat, Ahmedabad District, Sabarmati estuary (Lothal dockyard), India is a Mature Harappan (2400–1900 BCE, Lothal dockyard phase) pyramid/mound site…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ubaid through Early Dynastic I (c.4000–2800 BCE); Ubaid 4, Uruk, Jemdat Nasr, ED I · Ubaid → Uruk colonial (southern Mesopotamian) → Jemdet Nasr → ED I Diyala
Hamrin Uruk colonial tell with bevelled-rim and cylinder sealings (c.3800–3100 BCE) — Roaf’s Ubaid→ED sequence.
🇹🇷 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.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (3800–1900 BCE, Gumla–Gomal) · Gumla culture (Gomal plain, Tochi-Gomal)
Gumla Mound — Gomal Pakistan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dera Ismail Khan, Gomal plain (Gumla), Pakistan is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (3800–1900 BCE, Gumla–Gomal) pyramid/mound site attributed to…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Early Harappan to Mature Harappan transition (3000–2550 BCE) · Harappan (Nausharo I–III, Togau-Harappan)
Nausharo Mound — Bolan Kacchi in Balochistan, Kacchi Plain, 6 km from Mehrgarh (Bolantyp), Pakistan is a Early Harappan to Mature Harappan transition (3000–2550 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to…
🇸🇾 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).
