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Platform and burial mounds of the Americas and beyond.
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
Early Mississippian (Stirling antecedent) · Cahokia Mississippian with Oneota interaction
Northernmost Cahokia-affiliated platform mounds (1050–1100 CE) on Mississippi bluffs — 500-km colony.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze through Iron Age · Hattian/EBA → Assyrian Colony → Hittite → Phrygian
Eskiyapar Höyük (Eskiyapar / Alaca Ridge) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Çorum Province, Alaca District, Alaca plain, Turkey — Karum-period trade town and Hittite road station linking…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–EBA
Hatra Buried Allat Temple Fornix 7 in Nineveh, Hatra, Iraq is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic–EBA.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–EBA
Larsa Buried Ebabbar Temple Cella in Dhi Qar, Larsa, Iraq is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic–EBA.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (7000–2600 BCE, earliest South Asian farming village) · Balochistan Neolithic (Mehrgarh culture, Kili Gul Mohammad)
Mehrgarh Mound — Kacchi Bolan in Balochistan, Kacchi Plain at foot of Bolan Pass (near Dadhar), Pakistan is a Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (7000–2600 BCE, earliest South Asian farming village)…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Early to Late Archaic (7500 – 500 BCE) · Archaic (Helton, Modoc, Koster)
Koster Site in Illinois, United States is a Early to Late Archaic (7500 – 500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Archaic (Helton, Modoc, Koster) culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Malwa Chalcolithic 1700–1400 BCE → Jorwe-related → Early Historic → Malwa Sultanate · Malwa Chalcolithic
Malwa culture type-site on Narmada opposite Maheshwar — Sankalia's 1952–59 round-hut village (1700 BCE).
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Early Neolithic Starčevo–Dudeşti (6000–5000 BCE) · Early Neolithic Starčevo–Dudeşti (6000–5000 BCE)
Măgura Tell (Buduiasca) in Teleorman County, Măgura-Buduiasca, Romania is a Early Neolithic Starčevo–Dudeşti (6000–5000 BCE) settlement attributed to Early Neolithic Starčevo–Dudeşti (6000–5000 BCE)…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze III through Medieval (EBA, MBA, LBA Izziya, Iron Age, Classical, Byzantine) · Cilician coastal / Hittite (Izziya) → Syro-Cilician → Classical Greek/Roman
Coastal tell (Bronze Age Izziya, Classical Issos) — 5 kyr harbour sequence from EB III to Medieval, Alexander battlefield anchor.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Ancient village
Eneolithic (Copper Age) Botai (3700–3100 BCE) · Botai horse hunters-herders (Central Eurasian steppe)
Eneolithic mega-village (c.3700–3100 BCE, Botai culture) — type-site for earliest horse domestication evidence (ongoing debate): 15-ha semi-subterranean house hamlet (150 houses 30–70 m², 6-m deep…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age through Iron Age II (c.3000–717 BCE); Neolithic substratum · EBA–MBA Euphrates town → Hittite viceroyalty → Neo-Hittite Luwian-Aramaean
80 ha Euphrates tell — Hittite viceregal capital and Neo-Hittite sculpture city on Turkish-Syrian border (c.3000–717 BCE).
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE) · Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE)
Ovcharovo Tell in Targovishte Province, Ovcharovo village, Bulgaria is a Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE) settlement attributed to Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE) culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) · Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE)
Pietrele Tell in Teleorman / Giurgiu region, Danube plain, Pietrele village, Romania is a Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) settlement attributed to Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) culture.
🇮🇳 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)…
🇸🇾 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.
🇷🇸 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.
🇵🇰 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…
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Chalcolithic through Byzantine (c.5000 BCE–749 CE); EBA, MB–LB Canaanite/Egyptian, Iron I–II, Hellenistic-Roman-Byzantine · Chalcolithic–EBA Canaanite → New Kingdom Egyptian garrison → Israelite → Decapolis (Scythopolis)
Egyptian garrison tell (1450–1130 BCE) + EBA–Byzantine Beth Shean — 11 cities with Mekal temple and 749 CE earthquake debris (c.5000 BCE–749 CE).
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (3600–2600 BCE, Amri-Nal) · Amri culture (pre-Harappan Sindh)
Amri Mound — Indus Sehwan in Sindh, Dadu District, west bank Indus near Sehwan (Amri type-site), Pakistan is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (3600–2600 BCE, Amri-Nal) pyramid/mound site attributed…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE, Makran coastal network) · Harappan (coastal Makran outpost)
Sotka-koh Mound — Makran Coast in Balochistan, Makran coast near Pasni (Harappan coastal outpost), Pakistan is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE, Makran coastal network) pyramid/mound site attributed…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
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).
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chacoan to Post-Chaco (Late Pueblo II to III) · Chaco Culture → Mesa Verde–San Juan (ancestral Pueblo)
Northern Chaco great-house outlier (c.1090–1280 CE) — 300-room 2-storey sandstone Chacoan great house built 1090 CE by Chaco Canyon elite as toll/ grain colony on San Juan, then reoccupied 1125–1280…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Third Intermediate through Late-Byzantine; TI fortress phase · Theban High Priest (21st) → Libyan 22nd → Saite → Graeco-Roman
Third Intermediate border fortress (1070 BCE) with 12 m bastioned wall on Nile cliff — Theban–Tanite frontier garrison, Amenhotep III temple, priestly necropolis and Hibeh papyri.
