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🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pueblo II–III (Chacoan 900–1150 CE, McElmo phase) · Ancestral Puebloan (Chaco Canyon Chacoan)
Pueblo del Arroyo (Chaco Great House Arroyo Sector) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in New Mexico, San Juan County, Chaco Canyon, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, United States —…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic through Early Bronze (6400–2700 BCE) · Burdur–Antalya Late Neolithic → Early Chalcolithic shrine phase → Lakes EBA
Höyücek (Höyücek Höyük / Burdur Sanctuary) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Burdur Province, Bucak District, Burdur–Antalya foothills, Turkey — Neolithic–Chalcolithic sanctuary village with…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo III–IV → Spanish mission (1100–1670 CE) · Pueblo III–IV → Spanish mission (1100–1670 CE)
Quarai Pueblo (Mission Quarai) in New Mexico, Torrance County, Salinas, Manzano foothills, United States is a Pueblo III–IV → Spanish mission (1100–1670 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo III–IV →…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo IV → Spanish contact (1200–1680 CE) · Pueblo IV → Spanish contact (1200–1680 CE)
Hawikuh Pueblo (Hawikku) in New Mexico, Cibola County, Zuni, Six Middle Villages, United States is a Pueblo IV → Spanish contact (1200–1680 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo IV → Spanish contact…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo III–IV (Mogollon) (1100–1350 CE) · Pueblo III–IV (Mogollon) (1100–1350 CE)
Turkey Creek Pueblo in Arizona, Apache County, White Mtns, Point of Pines, United States is a Pueblo III–IV (Mogollon) (1100–1350 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo III–IV (Mogollon) (1100–1350 CE)…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo II–IV (1100–1350 CE) · Pueblo II–IV (1100–1350 CE)
Pot Creek Pueblo (Talastima) in New Mexico, Taos County, Pot Creek, Sangre de Cristo foothills, United States is a Pueblo II–IV (1100–1350 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo II–IV (1100–1350 CE)…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EB IV desert New Town (2400–2000 BCE) · Eblaic-Early Bronze steppe urban experiment
Tell al-Rawda in Hama Governorate, Syrian steppe, Rawda plain, Syria is a EB IV desert New Town (2400–2000 BCE) settlement attributed to Eblaic-Early Bronze steppe urban experiment culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo II–III (1000–1300 CE) · Pueblo II–III (1000–1300 CE)
Yucca House Pueblo (Angani) in Colorado, Montezuma County, Southern Ute near Towaoc, United States is a Pueblo II–III (1000–1300 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo II–III (1000–1300 CE) culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo II–III (1000–1280 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)
Sand Canyon Pueblo in Colorado, Montezuma County, Canyons of Ancients, United States is a Pueblo II–III (1000–1280 CE) settlement attributed to Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic (6000–3500 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic (6000–3500 BCE)
Tell Zaidan (Zaidan) in Ar-Raqqah Governorate, Balikh Valley, near Raqqa, Syria is a Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic (6000–3500 BCE) settlement attributed to Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1150–1450 CE) · Hohokam (O'odham ancestral) Classic Period (Soho–Civano phases)
Casa Grande Hohokam South Compound is the Classic Period platform-mound village south of the Casa Grande Great House — the iconic 4-story caliche Great House (1350 CE) on the Gila River.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf-Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → EBA/Uruk (5900–3100 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk (North Mesopotamian painted then Uruk expansion)
Halaf-Ubaid (5900–4800 BCE) Uruk-contact village — 4 ha buried Euphrates village, Birecik Dam salvage type-site.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EB → MBA → LBA → Iron (3000–700 BCE) · Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Neo-Hittite Tunip
Tell Asharna in Hama Governorate, Orontes Valley, Asharna plain, Syria is a EB → MBA → LBA → Iron (3000–700 BCE) settlement attributed to Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Neo-Hittite Tunip culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE – 5th c. CE) · Ptolemaic Greek / Egyptian / Roman
Fayum Lake Moeris granary port — Ptolemy II polder city whose lake quays now 2 m buried as Lake Qarun fell 20 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Epipalaeolithic / PPNA transitional (Natufian-related → Pre-Pottery Neolithic) · Sason Epipaleolithic → PPNA Upper Tigris foragers
Epipalaeolithic-PPNA hamlet (c.11ky BP) with C-shaped communal auroch-bucrania building — earliest pig management and pre-Göbekli communal architecture, Sason Stream.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ubaid through Early Dynastic I (c.4000–2800 BCE); Ubaid 4, Uruk, Jemdat Nasr, ED I · Ubaid → Uruk colonial (southern Mesopotamian) → Jemdet Nasr → ED I Diyala
Hamrin Uruk colonial tell with bevelled-rim and cylinder sealings (c.3800–3100 BCE) — Roaf’s Ubaid→ED sequence.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic Late Uruk (3800–3100 BCE) · Late Uruk (South Mesopotamian colony)
Tell Habuba Kabira South Mound is the 10-ha southern colony mound of Habuba Kabira — the largest Late Uruk urban transplant outside Sumer (22 ha gridded walled city).
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan · Tell
Neolithic (late 7th–6th millennium BCE); Shomu–Shulaveri–Aratashen horizon · Shomu–Aratashen (Caucasian Early Neolithic; Shulaveri parallel)
South Caucasian Neolithic type-site (c.6300–5000 BCE) — 7 horizons of round mudbrick houses founding Shomu–Aratashen.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Bronze Age veneer → Neo-Assyrian provincial (Iron Age) · Mitanni → Middle/Neo-Assyrian (Ashurnasirpal II–Ashurbanipal)
Assyrian imperial capital Tušhan (883–611 BCE) — 32 ha citadel + lower town with palace, palace ware and Tigris quay, burned at Median fall, Upper Tigris frontier.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to MBA (Uruk, EBA, MBA) · Late Uruk → Transcaucasian (Kura-Araxes) → MBA Hurrian
Keban salvage tell with Chalcolithic–MBA stratified sequence — Uruk enclave, Transcaucasian (Karaz) and early Mitanni levels before Euphrates dam flooding.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Underground city
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Lower Saqqara Necropolis East — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-32) at Saqqara, Serapeum, Egypt is a Early Historic (regional) underground city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Classical (regional) · Classical
Great Derinkuyu Fortress Outer — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-43) at Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Classical (regional) ancient city of the Classical tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Royal Derinkuyu Reservoir Inner — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-48) at Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Medieval (regional) ancient city of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇲🇹 Malta · Ancient city
Classical (regional) · Classical
Royal Hypogeum Ridge I — Hypogeum, Paola (59-21) at Hypogeum, Paola, Malta is a Classical (regional) ancient city of the Classical tradition, built c. 800 CE for ridge and associated settlement.
