🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Uşaklı Höyük
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.
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🇹🇷 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.
🇹🇷 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…
🇹🇷 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…
🇹🇷 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.
🇹🇷 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.
🇹🇷 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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Chalcolithic to Iron Age to Medieval · Anatolian Halaf-Ubaid → EBA → Hittite → Phrygian
Large stratified tell (Chalcolithic c.4000 BCE to Phrygian/Medieval, peak EBA–Iron) controlling Kanak Su pass between Kültepe and Hattusa.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Sassanid sack 252 CE · Seleucid → Roman → Parthian frontier
Twin Hellenistic foundation (Seleucia on Euphrates + Apamea opposite) bridging the Euphrates by Alexander's engineers, Roman legionary base and Parthian toll city (wealth from Euphrates crossing).
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Middle Bronze to Iron (c.1800–600 BCE) · Mitanni → Middle Assyrian → Neo-Assyrian
Middle Bronze to Iron Age mound (160 m diameter, 12 m high) on the Upper Tigris, salvage west of the Batman–Tigris confl...
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Early Bronze Age (c.3000–2300 BCE) with Phrygian/Classical caps · Northwestern Anatolian EBA → Phrygian
Stratified Early Bronze Age mound (300 × 200 m, 12 m high) on the Porsuk upper Sakarya, excavated by Manfred Korfmann 19...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Late Chalcolithic to EBA III (4200–2000 BCE) · Pontic Chalcolithic–EBA (Bafra horizon; Maikop affinities)
Pontic coastal necropolis 4200–2000 BCE — 600 graves, arsenical bronze.
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Neolithic–Early Bronze (6850–3000 BCE) · Aegean Neolithic
Neolithic–Early Bronze (6850–3000 BCE) Aegean Neolithic tell at Izmir Province, Kemalpaşa – longest continuous aegean neolithic sequence (dims Mound 15 m high, levels I–IVb over 45 building horizons).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic to Iron; Amuq A-B emphasis · Amuq A/B Neolithic → Ubaid → EBA → Iron Syro-Hittite
Amuq A Neolithic type mound (18 ha) — earliest Amuq painted village (c.6000 BCE) through Iron, defining northern Levantine Neolithic base.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Earthwork
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Ditch Stone Mound Complex in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Moche (100–800 CE) earthwork attributed to Moche culture.
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Halaf to EBA III (5600–2000 BCE; main 3100–2000 BCE) · Halaf → Uruk interaction → EBA Karababa and Transcaucasian
EBA terrace tell on Suruç plain — Halaf under EBA jar-burial cemetery.
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Chalcolithic to EBA II (4900–2300 BCE) · Obed → Late Uruk → EBA Karababa
EBA low mound with Uruk citadel — 4900 BCE to 2300 BCE furnace village.
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Chalcolithic-EBA (c.5000-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes / Early Transcaucasian (Karaz-Pulur)
Tilki Tepe — buried chalcolithic-eba tell/village at Van Province.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic to Byzantine (7000 BCE+) · Neolithic to Roman
Yumuktepe — Mersin Mound in Mersin Province, Cilicia, Turkey is a Neolithic to Byzantine (7000 BCE+) tell attributed to Neolithic to Roman culture.
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Neolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.6000–2200 BCE) · Amuq → Syro-Cilician
North Amik tell 11 m high (Amuq A–G, Halaf–EB continuity) between Alalakh and Zincirli.
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Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Grek Amele — buried prehistoric tell/village at Diyarbakır Province.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic – Early Chalcolithic (6500–5000 BCE) · Cappadocian Late Neolithic
Late Neolithic – Early Chalcolithic (6500–5000 BCE) tell of Cappadocian Late Neolithic in Nevşehir Province, Cappadocia (c.6500 BCE).
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Late Chalcolithic – Early Bronze (4000–3000 BCE) · Elazığ–Murat Chalcolithic
Late Chalcolithic – Early Bronze (4000–3000 BCE) tell of Elazığ–Murat Chalcolithic in Elazığ Province, Keban Reservoir (c.4000 BCE).
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Early Bronze II (2700–2300 BCE) · Central Anatolian Early Bronze
Early Bronze II (2700–2300 BCE) tell of Central Anatolian Early Bronze in Ankara Province, Ankara Plain (c.2700 BCE).
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Aceramic Neolithic through Early Bronze (7000–2700 BCE) · Cappadocian Aceramic → Early Chalcolithic → Late Chalcolithic (Melendiz)
Tepecik Höyük (Çiftlik / Melendiz Plain) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Niğde Province, Çiftlik District, Melendiz plain, Cappadocia, Turkey — Cappadocian Neolithic obsidian-processing…
