🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan
Chimú · Chimú (Chanchan)
Largest adobe city in world: capital of Chimú Kingdom (850–1470) covering 20 km² with 10 walled citadels (ciudadelas) with friezes of pelicans and lattice, reservoirs, adobe walls.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Beşik-Sivritepe
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Beşik-Sivritepe — buried prehistoric tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Urdoviza
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Urdoviza — buried prehistoric tell/village at Dobrich Province.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tepecik (İnegöl)
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Tepecik (İnegöl) — buried prehistoric tell/village at Bursa Province.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Earthwork
Tin Tab Trackway
Neolithic Funnel Beaker 3300 BCE to Bronze Age · Funnel Beaker (TRB) culture
3300 BCE Neolithic heavy-haul bog road (800 m, 2.8 m wide) at Tin Tab, Drenthe, aligned to Emmen hunebed for megalithic sledge transport.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork
Corlea Trackway
Iron Age, Late La Tene 148 BCE · Late Iron Age La Tene Ireland
147 BCE Iron Age oak plank highway (3.2 m wide, 1.6 km) across Corlea Bog, largest European timber road built in one year.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Mousa South Broch & Iron Age Village Extension (South Mousa Shore)
Middle to Late Iron Age (Atlantic Iron Age) · Shetland Atlantic Iron Age builders
South Mousa second broch and wheelhouse village 1.2 km south of famous Mousa Broch: prototype 500 BCE.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tepe Gaz Tavila (Tepe Gaz Tavaleh)
Chalcolithic – Early Bronze (4000–3000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Kerman
Chalcolithic – Early Bronze (4000–3000 BCE) tell of Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Kerman in Kerman Province, Kerman Plain (c.4000 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tepe Farukhabad
Late Chalcolithic – Early Dynastic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic–Early Dynastic
Late Chalcolithic – Early Dynastic (3500–2600 BCE) tell of Late Chalcolithic–Early Dynastic in Ilam Province, Deh Luran Plain (c.3500 BCE).
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Cahokia Mounds — Mound 72 (Beaded Burial and Woodhenge Sector)
Mississippian (Lohmann 1050–1100 through Moorehead 1200–1275, Stirling 1050–1150) · Mississippian (Cahokia Stirling phase capital)
Cahokia Mounds — Mound 72 (Beaded Burial and Woodhenge Sector) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Illinois, St.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
La Quemada (Chicomostoc) — Chalchihuites Hilltop Fortress
Classic (Chalchihuites, 350–850 CE, Epiclásico) · Chalchihuites (Zacatecas) → Coyotlatelco contact
La Quemada (Chicomostoc) — Chalchihuites Hilltop Fortress is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Zacatecas State, Villanueva Municipality, Malpaso valley, Cerro La Quemada, Mexico — Hilltop…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Yaniktepe (Tappeh Yanik)
Early Bronze (3500–2200 BCE) · Early Transcaucasian (Kura-Araxes)
Early Bronze (3500–2200 BCE) tell of Early Transcaucasian (Kura-Araxes) in West Azerbaijan, Urmia Basin (c.3500 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Kusura Höyük
Early Bronze I–III (3000–2300 BCE) · Early Bronze Western Anatolian
Early Bronze I–III (3000–2300 BCE) tell of Early Bronze Western Anatolian in Afyon Province, Sandıklı Plain (c.3000 BCE).
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Karanovo Tell (Karanovo Neolithic–Chalcolithic Stratotype)
Early Neolithic through Early Bronze II (Karanovo I–VII, 6200–2800 BCE) · Karanovo I–VII (Starčevo → Vinča → Gumelnița → Ezero)
Karanovo Tell (Karanovo Neolithic–Chalcolithic Stratotype) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Sliven Province, Nova Zagora District, Azmak stream plain, Thrace, Bulgaria — Thracian stratotype…
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Khok Phanom Di
Late Neolithic (2000–1500 BCE) → Early Bronze (1500 BCE) brief at top · Khok Phanom Di (Coastal Neolithic → early Bronze, Central Thai)
Coastal Neolithic–Bronze Age shell midden and cemetery (c.2000–1500 BCE) near Bang Pakong estuary mangrove, 20 km from the Gulf — 5 ha mound 6 layers excavated 1984–85 by Charles Higham and Rachanie…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Chetro Ketl (Chaco Great House and Elevated Kiva Court)
Pueblo II–III (Chacoan 1010–1130 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Chacoan with Colonnade variant)
Chetro Ketl (Chaco Great House and Elevated Kiva Court) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in New Mexico, San Juan County, Chaco Canyon, Chaco Wash north side, United States — Second-largest…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tepe Sharafabad
Jemdet Nasr – Early Dynastic (3100–2600 BCE) · Jemdet Nasr–Early Dynastic
Jemdet Nasr – Early Dynastic (3100–2600 BCE) tell of Jemdet Nasr–Early Dynastic in Ilam Province, Deh Luran (c.3100 BCE).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Sukas (Sukas / Shuksi) — Phoenician Harbour Ridge
Early Bronze III through Hellenistic (EB, MBA, LB, Phoenician, Iron Greek) · Coastal Syrian → Ugaritic → Phoenician → Greek colonial
Tell Sukas (Sukas / Shuksi) — Phoenician Harbour Ridge is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Latakia Governorate, Jableh District, Mediterranean coast, Syria — Northern Phoenician harbour tell —…
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Shangshan
Shangshan culture 9000–7000 BCE → Kuahuqiao (8500–7700) → Hemudu · Shangshan (Lower Yangzi earliest Neolithic, Pre-Yangshao)
Type-site for Shangshan culture (c.11000–9000 BP, 9000–7000 BCE) at Huangzhai near Pujiang, Zhejiang — earliest Neolithic in the Lower Yangzi (currently oldest pottery in Zhejiang), excavated 2001–06…
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Chengtoushan
Daxi (5500–3300) → Qujialing → Shijiahe 5500–2300 BCE · Daxi → Qujialing → Shijiahe (Middle Yangzi walled cities)
Earliest walled rice city in China (c.5500–3000 BCE) at Chengtoushan plateau on the Liyang Plain near Li County — 8 ha fortified town with 3 m rammed-earth wall 800 m diameter and outer moat,…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Gilund
Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic 3000–1700 BCE (Early/Mature/Late) · Ahar-Banas (Mewar Chalcolithic) → contact Harappan
Largest Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic settlement (c.3000–1700 BCE) on the Banas River floodplain in Rajsamand, Mewar — twin mounds (Modiya Magari, 14 ha and western mound 4 ha) excavated 1999–2005 by V.S.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tepe Djowi (Deh Luran-Susiana)
Ubaid – Early Uruk (5000–3500 BCE) · Ubaid–Susa A Susiana
Ubaid – Early Uruk (5000–3500 BCE) tell of Ubaid–Susa A Susiana in Khuzestan Province, Susiana (c.5000 BCE).
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Vinča–Belo Brdo – Neolithic Tell Mega-Settlement
Neolithic–Chalcolithic, Vinča–Tordos to Gradac phases · Vinča culture (Danubian Neolithic)
5700–4500 BCE Vinča tell—type site of Old Europe with early copper and 2,000 masks.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Homolovi I (Homolovi State Park — Sunset Mesa Pueblo)
Pueblo IV (Ancestral Puebloan post-Mesa Verde, 1285–1400 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Hopi ancestor — Homolovi Cluster)
Homolovi I (Homolovi State Park — Sunset Mesa Pueblo) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Arizona, Navajo County, Winslow–Little Colorado, Homolovi State Park, United States — Largest Homolovi…