🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca Prieta
Preceramic VI – Initial Period 6000–1800 BCE · Cupisnique/Pre-Cupisnique maritime
6000-year preceramic cotton mound 30×8 m with indigo dye and 7000-year textile nets 3 km from El Brujo.
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Platform and burial mounds of the Americas and beyond.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age to Medieval (peak MBA–Hittite–Iron) · EB Anatolian → Hittite → Neo-Hittite/Tabal → Armenian Medieval
Large Elbistan Plain mound (300 × 250 m, 22 m high) dominating the Ceyhan headwaters, second only to Tilmen in the plain...
🇵🇪 Peru · Tell
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Tell el-Glen in Ancash, Peru is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) tell attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Preceramic VI – Initial Period 6000–1800 BCE · Cupisnique/Pre-Cupisnique maritime
6000-year preceramic cotton mound 30×8 m with indigo dye and 7000-year textile nets 3 km from El Brujo.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ur III (c.2112–2004 BCE; peak Shulgi–Ibbi-Sin c.2050 BCE) · Ur III state (Third Dynasty of Ur)
Ur III state cattle redistribution centre Puzrish-Dagan (Drehem) — Shulgi's royal livestock agency (c.2050 BCE) processing thousands of cattle/sheep for Ur and...
🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Classical
Maranhao Hydraulic Fish Trap West in Nazca, Peru is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Classical culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA-Iron Age (c.3000-700 BCE) · Amuq/Syro-Hittite (Amuq A-J to Iron Age Patina)
Coba Höyük (Sakçagözü) — buried eba-iron tell/village at Gaziantep Province.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Classic · Maya/Andean
Kaminaljuyu — 200 mounds under Guatemala City.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic-EBA (c.5000-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes / Early Transcaucasian (Karaz-Pulur)
Karaz (Kahraman) Tepe — buried chalcolithic-eba tell/village at Erzurum Province.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA-Iron Age (c.3000-700 BCE) · Amuq/Syro-Hittite (Amuq A-J to Iron Age Patina)
İmamoğlu Höyük — buried eba-iron tell/village at Gaziantep Province.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Early Dynastic to Late 3rd Millennium, c.3000–2200 BCE · Early Dynastic Sumerian (Khabur)
Kleine Antentempel and Steinbau 1 high terrace at Tell Chuera (ancient Harran? c.3000–2200 BCE, Early Dynastic).
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Chalcolithic to Early Historic (3000 BCE–500 BCE) · Ahar-Banas
Balathal — Banas Valley Settlement in Rajasthan, India is a Chalcolithic to Early Historic (3000 BCE–500 BCE) tell attributed to Ahar-Banas.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Early Woodland Adena to Early Hopewell transition · Adena
Adena conical mound (20 ft/6 m high, 100 ft/30 m diameter) preserved in Campbell Park, Columbus — one of few surviving mounds in Ohio's capital city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient village
Preceramic (5700–2500 BCE Bandurria period with 3200 BCE monumental circular architecture to 4100 BCE Aceramic) · Preceramic Norte Chico (Bandurria part of Norte Chico Caral sphere 5000–3500)
Bandurria excavated by Chu 2007, 4100 mound earliest 2700 circular, cotton net.
🇵🇪 Peru · Mound
Preceramic (3500–1800 BCE) with early cotton 3300 BCE and indigo 1500 BCE · Preceramic Cupisnique antecedent with early cotton textile industry
Huaca Prieta Bird 1947, Dillehay 2003 oldest cotton 3300 indigo.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (PPNB-derived) · Anatolian Neolithic (Catalhoyuk East/West)
Largest Neolithic proto-city (7500–5700 BCE) with 18 settlement levels, mud-brick houses entered via roofs, wall paintings, bull bucrania and earliest landscape painting. Population up to 8,000.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Mound
Iron Age to Historic Kanem · Chad Basin (Gajiganna → Kanem-Bornu)
7 m deep tell preserving 3000-year fishing-pastoralist sequence; fish bones, cord roulette ceramics and copper imports show trans-Saharan contact before Arab records.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Mound
Iron Age to Kanem-Bornu · Chad Basin
Firki classic mound 5 m with cattle-trail causeways visible on SAR; compound enclosures vs kraals detected by magnetometry.
