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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus

Horuztepe

Early Bronze III (2800–2300 BCE) · Early Bronze Pontic–Anatolian

Early Bronze III (2800–2300 BCE) tumulus of Early Bronze Pontic–Anatolian in Tokat Province, Erbaa Plain (c.2600 BCE).

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Dilkaya Höyük

Early Bronze III – Urartian (2700–600 BCE) · Van–Urmia EB–Urartian

Early Bronze III – Urartian (2700–600 BCE) tell of Van–Urmia EB–Urartian in Van Province, Edremit Plain (c.2700 BCE).

🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus

Kaup-Wiskiauten Viking Cemetery (Mochovoye)

Early Middle Ages (9th–11th c. Viking Age) · Scandinavian Varangians + Prussian Sambians

Kaup-Wiskiauten Viking Cemetery (Mochovoye) in Kaliningrad Oblast, Zelenogradsk District, Mochovoye village on Curonian Spit edge, Russia is a Early Middle Ages (9th–11th c.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus

Beşiktepe

Early Bronze I–II (3000–2500 BCE) · Troad Early Bronze

Early Bronze I–II (3000–2500 BCE) tumulus of Troad Early Bronze in Çanakkale Province, Troad (c.3000 BCE).

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Tell

Pleistocene Djadochta Formation (75 Ma) → Neolithic (7000–3000 BCE) → Bronze Age 3000–1000 BCE → Slab Grave Iron Age · Gobi Neolithic microlithic → Afanasievo–Chemurchek Bronze (Gobi) → Slab Grave Iron Age nomadic

Gobi Flaming Cliffs (Bayanzag) — Neolithic pit camps to Chemurchek burials capping Djadochta dinosaur nests (Andrews 1922).

🇱🇻 Latvia · Ancient city

Grobiņa

Migration → Vendel → Viking Age 650–850 (Curonian–Scandinavian) · Curonian Baltic + Gotlandic–Swedish Vendel–Viking (Seeburg)

Grobiņa (Grobin/Seeburg, Cur. *Gruobins*) — Curonian–Gotlandic–Swedish emporium (c.650–850, Great Migration → Viking Age) on Ālande River 8 km east Liepāja, South Courland, largest Scandinavian…

🇵🇪 Peru · Tomb

Cerro Trinidad

Late Intermediate (c.1200–1470 CE) Chancay · Chancay

Cerro Trinidad is the classic Chancay funerary ridge cemetery in the lower Chancay Valley near Chancay port, Lima.

🇻🇳 Vietnam · Cemetery

Con Co Ngua Cemetery

Hoabinhian late 6000 BP → Da But Neolithic transition · Da But — Hoabinhian→Neolithic cemetery transition on Ma plain

Con Co Ngua Cemetery — Da But cemetery (6000–5500 BP, late Hoabinhian-Neolithic transition) on limestone knoll at Ha Trung 35 km N Thanh Hoa, excavated 1979–98 and 2013 by V.

🇮🇷 Iran · Tell

Kordlar Tepe

Iron Age I–III (1500–600 BCE) · Iron Age Urmia

Iron Age I–III (1500–600 BCE) tell of Iron Age Urmia in West Azerbaijan, Lake Urmia SE (c.1300 BCE).

🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid

Sai Island Pyramid & Temple Complex

Kerma Classic to Napatan (2500–300 BCE) · Kerma / Egyptian / Kushite

Strategic Nile island town with Kerma tumuli and Napatan small pyramids — Egyptian fortress-temple city 1550 BCE on 12 km Sai Island between 2nd–3rd cataracts.

🇻🇳 Vietnam · Cemetery

Man Bac Cemetery

Neolithic 4000–3500 BP Da But→Phung Nguyen mosaic · Man Bac — Da But hunter to East Asian Neolithic admixture (Austroasiatic migration)

Man Bac Cemetery — Neolithic cemetery (c.4000–3500 BP, Phung Nguyen fringe) at Yen Mo karst 25 km S Ninh Binh, excavated 1999–2007 Australian–Vietnamese (Oxenham).

🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village

Truong Son Sa Huynh Site

Iron Age Sa Huynh 1000 BCE–200 CE Iron Age coastal · Sa Huynh — Truong Son coastal Iron Age (Cham pre-culture)

Truong Son Sa Huynh Site — Sa Huynh culture type locality edge (1000 BCE–200 CE, Iron Age coastal Vietnam) on South China Sea dunes at Sa Huynh 50 km S Quang Ngai, foothill of Truong Son (Annamite…

🇸🇪 Sweden · Burial field

Valsgärde

Vendel Period → Viking Age 550–1100 (Iron Age boat burial) · Vendel Period Svear → Viking Swedish (Fyris royal corridor)

Valsgärde (Vallsgärde) — boat-grave cemetery (Vendal Period 6th c → Viking Age 11th c, 15 boat graves + 80+ graves) on Fyris River hill 3 km north Gamla Uppsala, Uppsala RAÄ 209. Excavated 1928– G.

🇹🇭 Thailand · Cemetery

Non Nok Tha Khon Kaen

Neolithic 3000 → Bronze 1300 BCE → Iron 500 BCE–200 CE · Isan Khorat — Non Nok Tha Bronze–Iron hill (Phu Wiang)

Non Nok Tha Khon Kaen — Neolithic to Iron Age cemetery mound (3000 BCE–200 CE, 45 burials) on Phi Wiang hill 55 km NW Khon Kaen, excavated 1966–68 by Bayard–Solheim (Univ.

🇰🇭 Cambodia · Ancient village

Samrong Sen Kampong Chhnang

Neolithic 2300–1500 → Bronze 1500 BCE Samrong Sen type-site · Tonle Sap Neolithic — Samrong Sen circular moat tradition (Mekong)

Samrong Sen Kampong Chhnang — Neolithic circular mound settlement (2300–1200 BCE, 1500 BP early metal) on sand terrace at Tonle Sap southern rim 30 km NW Kampong Chhnang, excavated 1923–26 by H.

🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village

Ban Chiang Udon Thani

Bronze Age 2000–900 BCE → Iron Age 900 BCE–200 CE · Ban Chiang — Khorat Bronze–Iron paddy culture (UNESCO 575)

Ban Chiang Udon Thani — Iron Age–Bronze Age paddy cemetery-mound (3000 BCE–200 CE, 6 ha) at Ban Chiang 50 km E Udon Thani on Khorat Plateau, UNESCO 575, excavated 1974–75 by C. Gorman–P.

🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder

Altes Lager Menzlin

Early Medieval Viking Age–Slavic 8th–10th c · Slavic Veleti–Groswin + Scandinavian (Gotlandic–Swedish) traders

Altes Lager Menzlin West Field — western barrow-and-settlement extension of the 8th–10th c Slavic–Scandinavian trading post at Menzlin on Peene River 7 km west Anklam, Groswin tribal land.

🇧🇷 Brazil · Cave

Lapa do Santo

Early Holocene (c.12000–8000 BCE) Lagoa Santa Paleoindian · Lagoa Santa Paleoindian (Luzia horizon)

Lapa do Santo is a Lower Karst limestone rockshelter at Mocambeiro, northern Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, at 730 m.

🇸🇪 Sweden · Burial field

Vendel

Migration → Vendel Period 550–790 → Viking Age to 10th c · Vendel Period Svear (Tiundaland) — type eponym Vendeltid

Vendel (Vendel parish Tierp) — boat-grave field (Vendel Period 550–790 + Viking 14 graves total 1881–83 H.

🇨🇴 Colombia · Tomb

Malagana

Yotoco–Malagana (c.500 BCE–500 CE) and Sonso (c.500–1550 CE) · Malagana–Yotoco–Sonso (Calima sphere)

Malagana at El Bolo, Palmira, Valle del Cauca (970 m) is infamous for the 1992 sugar-cane slurry that exposed a Yotoco–Malagana cemetery (500 BCE–500 CE) and led to the wholesale looting of ~4 tonnes…

🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid

Hillat el-Arab Cemetery & Pyramids

New Kingdom (viceregal Kush) to early Napatan · Egyptian / Kushite (Napatan)

Napatan pyramid cemetery 5 km N of Jebel Barkal — 20 tombs 1400–300 BCE with small steep pyramids 5–8 m bridging New Kingdom viceregal and Kushite Kush.

🇷🇴 Romania · Burial field

Hoișești

Eneolithic Cucuteni A3–B (4500–3800 BCE) Moldavian Plateau · Cucuteni A3–B (Moldavian Iași variant)

Hoișești (Hoișești-La Pădure/La Izvor) — Cucuteni A3–B tell-necropolis (c.4500–3800 BCE, 2 ha settlement + extramural cemetery 50 graves) on Bahlui watershed, Iași County, Moldavian Plateau.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Tell Songor A–C (Hamrin)

Early Dynastic III through Ur III/Isin-Larsa (c.2600–1900 BCE); ED III, Akkadian, Ur III · ED III Diyala → Akkadian → Ur III provincial Hamrin

Hamrin cemetery tell with 200 ED III–Ur III shaft graves — Fujii’s Diyala–Zagros transition necropolis (Songor A–C).

🇺🇦 Ukraine · Kurgan

Dereivka (Sredny Stog / Dereivka site)

Eneolithic Chalcolithic; Sredny Stog · Dnieper-Donets → Sredny Stog → Yamnaya

Sredny Stog river village and cemetery (4500–3500 BCE) with Telegin settlement, copper awls and famed Dereivka stallion bit-wear controversy — Yamnaya forerunner.

Notable cemeteries

Grobiņa

Cerro Trinidad

Sai Island Pyramid & Temple Complex

Valsgärde

Ban Chiang Udon Thani

Lapa do Santo

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Horuztepe

Dilkaya Höyük

Kaup-Wiskiauten Viking Cemetery (Mochovoye)

Beşiktepe

Shabarakh Usu (Bayanzag)

Grobiņa

Cerro Trinidad

Con Co Ngua Cemetery

Kordlar Tepe

Sai Island Pyramid & Temple Complex

Man Bac Cemetery

Truong Son Sa Huynh Site

Valsgärde

Non Nok Tha Khon Kaen

Samrong Sen Kampong Chhnang

Ban Chiang Udon Thani

Altes Lager Menzlin

Lapa do Santo

Vendel

Malagana

Hillat el-Arab Cemetery & Pyramids

Hoișești

Tell Songor A–C (Hamrin)

Dereivka (Sredny Stog / Dereivka site)

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Notable cemeteries

Grobiņa

Cerro Trinidad

Sai Island Pyramid & Temple Complex

Valsgärde

Ban Chiang Udon Thani

Lapa do Santo

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