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Norşuntepe Village Extension — Keban Plain
Halaf to Urartian (5000 BCE–600 BCE) · Halaf → EBA Trans-Caucasian/Karaz → Urartian
EBA Keban village 2800 BCE — Karaz painted & copper crucible hamlet (Hauptmann).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Kaymaklı — Underground City Ancillary Church North (Cappadocia)
Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Kaymaklı — Underground City Ancillary Church North (Cappadocia) in Nevşehir, Kaymaklı, Turkey is a Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) buried city attr…
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Çakmaktepe
PPNA–PPNB (Taş Tepeler) · Taş Tepeler PPN foragers (Göbekli–Karahan sphere)
Taş Tepeler ridge PPNA enclave (9300–8500 BCE) with T-pillar in round enclosure and terrazzo hamlet — 9th Stone Hill on Karahan ridge.
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Çukuriçi Höyük
Late Neolithic through Early Bronze Age II (c.6700-2750 BCE) · Aegean-Neolithic to Chalcolithic to Western Anatolian EBA
Neolithic-EBA shoreline tell (6680-2750 BCE) at Ephesus — earliest Aegean copper workshop and EBA walled village.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Nevalı Çori
Early PPNB · Upper Euphrates PPNB
PPNB ritual settlement (c.8400–8100 BCE) on the middle Euphrates, sister-site to Göbekli Tepe with limestone T-pillars, terrazzo floors, and anthropogenic limestone sculptures of humans and birds…
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Maydos Kilisetepe
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Maydos Kilisetepe — buried prehistoric tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
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Kaman-Kalehöyük (Çağırkan Central Mound)
Early Bronze through Ottoman (EB, MBA, LBA-Hittite, Phrygian, Hellenistic, Roman) · Central Anatolian → Hittite → Phrygian (Mushki) → Achaemenid
Kaman-Kalehöyük (Çağırkan Central Mound) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Kırşehir Province, Kaman District, Central Anatolia, Turkey — Multi-period town mound controlling Kızılırmak basin…
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Maşat Höyük (Tapigga / Tapikka)
Late Chalcolithic through Iron Age (Chalcolithic, EBA, Hittite, Iron) · Hattian → Hittite (Tapikka) → Phrygian/Kaska contact
Maşat Höyük (Tapigga / Tapikka) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Tokat Province, Zile District, Yeşilırmak headwaters, Turkey — Hittite northeastern frontier archive town controlling Kaska…
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Körtik Tepe
PPNA to early PPNB (Late Epipaleolithic → Neolithic) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPNA, Upper Tigris forager-cultivators)
PPNA buried village (11200–9500 cal BP) with 400 burials under round-house floors — Upper Tigris type-site for Neolithic mortuary behaviour, Ilısu salvage.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Royal Derinkuyu Reservoir I — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-33)
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Royal Derinkuyu Reservoir I — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-33) at Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Medieval (regional) ancient city of the Medieval tradition, built c.
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Harran Plain Tell A
Halaf to Islamic (5600 BCE–1500 CE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → EBA Syrian → Hittite → Islamic Harran
Harran Plain Tell A is a 2.8-ha Halaf–Ubaid mound 8 km northeast of Harran city on the Balikh floodplain — one of Wilkinson's mapped Harran plain tells tracking the shift from dispersed Halaf…
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Oylum Höyük Lower Town
Chalcolithic to Medieval (4000 BCE–1400 CE) · North Syrian → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Islamic
Oylum Höyük Lower Town is the 30-ha extra-mural city wrapping the 20-m citadel on the Kilis plain.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Titriş Höyük — Lower Town North Gate (Şanlıurfa)
Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Titriş Höyük — Lower Town North Gate (Şanlıurfa) in Şanlıurfa, Titriş Höyük, Turkey is a Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) buried city attributed to …
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Tarsus — Gözlükule Lower Terrace
Neolithic to Ottoman (6000 BCE–1500 CE) · Neolithic → EBA → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Hellenistic → Roman
Cilician gateway lower town — Hittite sealings to Roman grid (Goldman 1934).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Çavi Tarlası — Nisibis Halaf Plain Settlement
Halaf (6100–5400 BCE) and early Ubaid transition · Halaf (Balikh facies)
Halaf tholos settlement 6100 BCE — keyhole tholoi with painted fine ware.
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Liman Tepe (Urla-Iskele Prehistoric Harbour)
Late Chalcolithic through Roman (Chalcolithic, EB I-III, MBA, Late Bronze, Classical, Roman) · Western Anatolian coastal → Troy I-II contemporary → Mycenaean contact → Ionian Klazomenai
Liman Tepe (Urla-Iskele Prehistoric Harbour) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in İzmir Province, Urla District, Urla-Iskele bay, Turkey — Earliest Aegean harbour town — prehistoric port with…
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Alişar Höyük (Alişar Village Mound)
Chalcolithic through Byzantine (Chalcolithic, EBA Karum, Hittite, Phrygian, Byzantine) · Anatolian Chalcolithic → Assyrian Colony (karum) → Hittite → Phrygian
Alişar Höyük (Alişar Village Mound) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Yozgat Province, Sorgun District, Kanak Su valley, Turkey — Fortified karum-colony and Hittite administrative centre on…
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Zincirli Höyük (Samʾal) — Iron Age Citadel Northeast
Early Bronze through Iron Age (EBA, MBA, LB, Neo-Hittite Samʾal, Assyrian) · Neo-Hittite Luwian-Aramaean Samʾal → Assyrian province
Zincirli Höyük (Samʾal) — Iron Age Citadel Northeast is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Gaziantep Province, İslahiye District, Samʾal plain, Turkey — Aramaean-Neo-Hittite kingdom capital with…
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İkiztepe
Late Chalcolithic → EB I–III → MBA (4300–2000 BCE) · Pontic EBA (Kızılırmak Black Sea, Balkan-Caucasus interface)
Black Sea delta cemetery-tell (4300–2000 BCE) — 2400 EBA gifted graves with arsenical copper, Pontic metallurgy nexus.
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Çadır Höyük (Sorgun)
Late Chalcolithic through Byzantine; EBA II-III, Hittite, Phrygian, Byzantine · Central Anatolian; Late Chalcolithic, EBA, Hittite Empire, Phrygia
Pleiades Bronze-Iron Age plateau tell (240×140 m) with Chalcolithic to Hittite-Phrygian stratigraphy on Kanak Su, Yozgat — type-site for plateau continuity.
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Mezraa-Teleilat
PPNA through Ubaid (c.9600–5500 BCE); PPNA, PPNB, Halaf, Ubaid · Upper Euphrates Neolithic (Mezraa phase) → Halaf → Ubaid
Neolithic–Halaf Euphrates tell (c.9600–5500 BCE) with PPNA round huts to Halaf painted pottery — Euphrates Neolithic type-site.
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Yumuktepe (Yümüktepe)
Neolithic through Byzantine; Cilician corridor · Cilician Neolithic → Hittite Kizzuwatna → Neo-Hittite Que → Greco-Roman
Mersin coastal tell with 25 m deposit from Aceramic Neolithic (7000 BCE) to Roman — Garstang’s Cilician Neolithic–Hittite maritime gateway sequence.
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Hasankeyf Höyük
PPNA to Medieval; dominant Neolithic and Medieval citadel · PPNA/PPNB Neolithic → Assyrian → Artuqid Kurdish → Ottoman
Tigris gorge tell (PPNA Neolithic through Medieval) with cliff-edge Neolithic houses — gorge-side multi-period palimpsest partly encircled by Ilısu reservoir after 2020.
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Başur Höyük
Late Chalcolithic (LC4-5) pre-Uruk to Jemdet Nasr · Upper Tigris LC culture (Uruk-extended / local transcaucasian)
Siirt ‘royal’ chalcolithic cemetery (3500–3000 BCE) with retainer burials — copper, lapis and earliest gaming set at Uruk fringe, Upper Tigris inequality origin.