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Platform and burial mounds of the Americas and beyond.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Neolithic (Halaf–Hassuna), c.6200-5800 BCE (Neolithic, burn layer) · Halaf
Tell Sabi Abyad Balikh Valley (Raqqa): 5 ha tell (mound 10 m high) excavated by Peter Akkermans (Leiden/Amsterdam 1986–): Operation I Burnt Village 6000 BCE — intact burned houses with 3D preserved…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial to Early Formative (Bagua-Jaén, Bracamoros) · Bagua-Jaén / Bracamoros culture (Marañón)
Jaén valley mound cluster Huaca La Ventilla (1500–500 BCE) near Montegrande: 40×40 m 15 m adobe-cobble pyramid — Bagua-Jaén phase dense temple field in upper Marañón.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Earthwork
Classical (regional) · Classical
Inner Teotihuacan Platform North — Teotihuacan (56-26) at Teotihuacan, Mexico is a Classical (regional) earthwork of the Classical tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic to Early Bronze · Hacilar-Kuruçay-Beycesultan sequence
Neolithic to Early Bronze lakeside tell with 13 levels (c.6200–3800 BCE, + EBA), bridging Hacilar (Level 6 early pottery) to Chalcolithic fortified town.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Hassuna through Halaf and Ubaid (c.6000–5000 BCE); Hassuna, Samarra, Halaf early · Hassuna → Samarra–Hajji Muhammad → Halaf (Yarim Tepe facies)
Hassuna–Halaf type transition (c.6000–5000 BCE) with earliest updraft kilns and Halaf painted ware over Hassuna (Soviet Bader).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic to Byzantine (6300 BCE–1300 CE) · Neolithic Mersin XXXIII → Chalcolithic Ubaid → EBA Cilician → Iron → Byzantine
Yumuktepe Mersin Re-evaluation Trench is the southern sounding of Yumuktepe — the Neolithic type-site for Cilician chronology (Garstang Mersin XXXIII–I, 6300–1300 CE) within modern Mersin.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze to Iron (3000 BCE–600 BCE) · EBA Syrian → Hittite → Neo-Hittite Melid → Phrygian
Karahöyük-Elbistan Plains Satellite is a 1.6-ha mound 6 km southwest of Karahöyük-Elbistan citadel on the upper Ceyhan plain (1130 m).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Middle Bronze (3000–2000 BCE) · EBA Syrian → Akkadian → Post-Akkadian → MBA Syrian
Tell Selenkahiyeh Southern Terrace is the lower-town terrace south of the four-tell cluster (15 ha) on the Euphrates west bank, salvaged before Lake Assad (Tabqa Dam) rose 20 m.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell Munbaqa (Ekalte) — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Raqqa Governorate.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell Biasi — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Raqqa Governorate.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell Fray — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Raqqa Governorate.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell al-'Abr — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Aleppo Governorate.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze I–II (c.3100–2600 BCE) with later BA · Ninevite 5 → Akkadian → Khabur ware
Ninevite 5 period settlement (250 × 200 m, 10 m high) on the Beşiri plain, Ilısu salvage zone, excavated by Barbara Helw...
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Neolithic to Chalcolithic–Cernavodă (5500–3200 BCE; insula 5500–4300 BCE) · Hamangia → Boian → Gumelniţa → Cernavodă I–III
Danube insula Fisher village 5500 BCE — Hamangia-Gumelniţa 12 m tell lower.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pottery Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic (c.6200–5500 BCE) · Çatalhöyük–related Konya Plain Neolithic
Low Konya Plain mound (150 m diameter, 6 m high) north of Çatalhöyük, part of the Çarşamba fan settlement cluster survey...
🇹🇷 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.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Caddoan Mississippian 800–1300 CE (Early Caddo) · Caddoan (Hasinai)
Southernmost Caddoan Mississippian center with three mounds, plaza and El Camino trace.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pottery Neolithic to Early Bronze · Central Anatolian Chalcolithic
Three mounds (Canhasan I, II, III) spanning Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic-Early Bronze (c.6000–3000 BCE) on the south Konya Plain, bridging Çatalhöyük to Mersin-Yumuktepe.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early–Middle Bronze (2600–1600 BCE) · Euphrates EB – Mitanni
Early–Middle Bronze (2600–1600 BCE) Euphrates EB – Mitanni tell at Raqqa Governorate, Tabqa Dam zone – twin northern town with tell banat across euphrates branch (dims 15 ha northern citadel with Mittani temple).
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Early Woodland, Adena culture 1000 BCE–1 CE (peak 250–150 BCE) · Adena
Largest conical burial mound in North America (62 ft/19 m high, 240 ft/73 m diameter, 60,000 tons earth moved by basket) built by Adena peoples at Moundsville, WV.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Early Bronze I–III (with Late Chalcolithic) · Early Bronze Levantine (coastal Canaanite)
EB I–III (3200–2500 BCE) coastal village with Egyptian imports — Lebanon's finest EB chronology.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Pottery Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic (c.6300–5500 BCE) · Central Anatolian Pottery Neolithic
Small Neolithic mound (80 m diameter, 4 m high) on the Konya Plain, excavated by David French 1960s as the earliest of t...
🇹🇭 Thailand · Tell
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Quay Jala Höyük in Buriram Province, Thailand is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) tell attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ubaid–Uruk (5200–3100 BCE) · Ubaid – Uruk
Ubaid–Uruk (5200–3100 BCE) Ubaid – Uruk tell at Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur tributary – ubaid–uruk village on khabur tributary (dims Mound 2 ha, 6 m Ubaid–Uruk).
