🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Beidha
PPNB to Nabataean · PPNB Levantine to Nabataean
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B village (7200–6500 BCE) 5 km north of Petra at Siq al-Barid ('Little Petra'), first excavated by Diana Kirkbride.
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Platform and burial mounds of the Americas and beyond.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Earthwork
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Old Potosí Village Inner — Potosí (55-20) at Potosí, Bolivia is a Medieval (regional) earthwork of the Medieval tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for village and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
MBA → LBA Hittite → Iron → Byzantine (2000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hittite (Kizzuwatna?) → Phrygian → Byzantine
Hittite Zippalanda candidate (LB) — 10 ha lower town, monumental Temple B with tablet, Florentine project.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
PPNB to Nabataean · PPNB Levantine to Nabataean
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B village (7200–6500 BCE) 5 km north of Petra at Siq al-Barid ('Little Petra'), first excavated by Diana Kirkbride.
🇨🇳 China · Earthwork
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Royal Xi an Settlement A — Xi an (56-38) at Xi an, China is a Iron Age (regional) earthwork of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 400 BCE for settlement and associated settlement.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Great Eridu Enclosure North — Eridu (53-43) at Eridu, Iraq is a Bronze Age (regional) tell of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 800 CE for enclosure and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Epipalaeolithic to Aceramic Neolithic · Central Anatolian Epipalaeolithic (Kebaran-like) → PPNA
Epipalaeolithic to Early Neolithic rockshelter and open-air spring-site (c.14,000–7000 BCE) on limestone spur at Pınarbaşı, type-site for Central Anatolian hunter-gatherer sedentism before…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate (Sicán/Lambayeque 1100–1375 CE, Chimú 1375–1470 CE, Inca 1470–1532 CE) · Lambayeque (Sicán) / Chimú / Inca (La Leche Valley)
Largest adobe pyramid of Lambayeque–Chimú complex at Túcume (26 huacas, 220 ha): Huaca Larga 700 m long, 280 m wide, 30 m high truncated adobe mass with two joined platforms (Larga and central mound)…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic to Early Postclassic Maya (700–950 CE, Rio Bec–Chenes) · Maya (Rio Bec–Chenes, Calakmul influence)
Iconic Rio Bec city with Structure I (7th–10th c.) unique three-tower pyramid: three stacked temples atop low platform 54×19 m, 5 m high, each with false stairways and Chenes masks — central tower…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kerma reuse to Kushite (25th Dynasty–Meroitic) · Kerma / Kushite (Napatan)
Argo Island pyramidal mound-temple at Tabo — 14 m mudbrick platform with Taharqa Amun temple c.690 BCE and 8 Napatan pyramids 5–8 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
PPNA to Late PPNB / Pottery Neolithic · Upper Tigris Neolithic
Neolithic village (8300–5800 BCE) on the upper Tigris near Ergani, sequence spanning PPNA to Pottery Neolithic with world-firsts: earliest pig domestication evidence, early copper working (native…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Rio Bec (600–900 CE) · Maya — Rio Bec
One of 12 Río Bec Project microregion hamlets illustrating non-hierarchical polity model — no dominant pyramid but a low broad temple mound (Structure 1) with Chenes mosaic fragments, surrounded by…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Earthwork
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Earthworks of Pediment in Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) earthwork attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf → Northern Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk fringe
Halaf-Ubaid village (6200–5000 BCE) — 3 ha Euphrates hamlet, Pollock Birecik Dam salvage.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze to Mitanni (Hurrian Urkesh) · Hurrian
Hurrian capital Urkesh (c.3000–1350 BCE) attributed to the god Kumarbi, with monumental Royal Palace of Tupkish (c.2250 BCE) and underground stone Abi (nekromanteion — pit to summon underworld…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic → EBA → MBA Karum → LBA → Iron → Medieval (6000 BCE–1500 CE) · Halaf → Euphrates EBA → Assyrian Karum → Mitanni/Hittite
Euphrates peninsula tell (Neolithic–Medieval) — 12 m double mound with Karum tablets, Hauptmann salvage.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf–Ubaid (c.5700–4200 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid northern
Khabur headwaters Halaf–Ubaid tell 7 m high (tholoi, dark-faced ware) at spring source.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf through EBA; Ubaid peak · Amuq Halaf → Ubaid → Amuq F (L. Chalcolithic–EBA)
Halaf-Ubaid tell (15 ha oval) defining Late Chalcolithic Ubaid north expansion, with tripartite kiln houses and channel-painted ceramics.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Ubaid to Neo-Babylonian · Ubaid → Sumerian → Babylonian
Sumerian sacred city traditionally first city in the world (Sumerian King List), center of god Enki/Ea cult (Abzu).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
LPPNB (Late PPNB) · Levantine LPPNB
Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B village (7500–6800 BCE, up to 10 ha), one of the largest and highest-altitude Neolithic settlements, controlling the Petra limestone plateau.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Classic (1150–1450 CE) · Hohokam (Tucson / Marana community)
Classic Hohokam platform 1150 CE — ballcourt & 150 m terrace rock-pile fields (Fish).
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Early Bronze to Iron Age · Canaanite → Egyptian → Israelite
Hilltop Canaanite tel (c.3500–586 BCE) with the Gezer Calendar (10th c. BCE, earliest Hebrew inscription — agricultural almanac) and bronze-age standing-stone alignment: 10 monolithic massebot (up to…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf–Ubaid–Late Chalcolithic (6th–4th mill. BCE) through Mitanni to Late Bronze Age (c.6000–1200 BCE) · North Mesopotamian (Halaf/Ubaid, Late Chalcolithic, Mitanni-Hurrian)
Tell Brak (ancient Nagar/Nawar) is the largest prehistoric mound in northeastern Syria (main mound 60 ha, 43 m high; outer town 130 ha), occupied 6th–2nd mill.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Hamangia to Iron Age (5000 BCE–100 CE; stratotype Cernavodă I 4000–3200 BCE) · Hamangia → Gumelniţa → Cernavodă I–III → Geto-Dacian Iron
Cernavodă stratotype 4000 BCE — namesake Cernavodă I with hamangia base.
🇷🇴 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.
