🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell el-Burak
MB II (c.2000–1600 BCE) · Canaanite MB II coastal → Phoenician
Small Middle Bronze II fortified town (1.6 ha) on a coastal hill south of Sidon, Lebanese-German excavations by Uwe Fink...
🇸🇩 Sudan · Tell
Tokar — Suakin Hinterland Mound
Post-Meroitic to Christian (300 BCE–1400 CE) · Beja–Meroitic
Tokar — Suakin Hinterland Mound in Red Sea State, Sudan is a Post-Meroitic to Christian (300 BCE–1400 CE) tell attributed to Beja–Meroitic.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Mound
Ngala / Ndufu Mound (Chad Basin)
Iron Age to Kanem-Bornu · Chad Basin
Firki classic mound 5 m with cattle-trail causeways visible on SAR; compound enclosures vs kraals detected by magnetometry.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Sahri Bahlol — Taxila Mound Annex at Loriyan
Kushan (100 CE) Gandhara · Gandhara Buddhist
Sahri Bahlol — Taxila Mound Annex at Loriyan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is a Kushan (100 CE) Gandhara ancient-city attributed to Gandhara Buddhist.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Tell
Tar-Khaniala — Salt Range Harappan Outwork
Kot Diji–Harappan (3000–1900 BCE) · Harappan frontier
Tar-Khaniala — Salt Range Harappan Outwork in Punjab, Pakistan is a Kot Diji–Harappan (3000–1900 BCE) tell attributed to Harappan frontier. Salt Range Harappan mound with bituminous Harappan pottery.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Habuba Kabira
Late Uruk/Jemdet Nasr (c.3500–3000 BCE) · South Mesopotamian Uruk colonial
Classic Late Uruk colony (c.3500–3000 BCE) on the Euphrates, 18 ha walled town with tripartite temples, administrative t...
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Tell
Tilla — Adina Masjid Mound
Pre-Harappan to Gandhara (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Gandhara prehistoric to Gandharan
Tilla — Adina Masjid Mound in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is a Pre-Harappan to Gandhara (3000 BCE–500 CE) tell attributed to Gandhara prehistoric to Gandharan.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Tell
Shabarakh Usu (Bayanzag)
Pleistocene Djadochta Formation (75 Ma) → Neolithic (7000–3000 BCE) → Bronze Age 3000–1000 BCE → Slab Grave Iron Age · Gobi Neolithic microlithic → Afanasievo–Chemurchek Bronze (Gobi) → Slab Grave Iron Age nomadic
Gobi Flaming Cliffs (Bayanzag) — Neolithic pit camps to Chemurchek burials capping Djadochta dinosaur nests (Andrews 1922).
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Fewkes Mounds
Middle Mississippian (c.1000–1450 CE) – Thruston phase Middle Cumberland · Mississippian (Middle Cumberland culture)
The Fewkes Group (Boiling Springs, 40Wm1) is a fortified Middle Mississippian town on the Harpeth River near Brentwood, Tennessee, at 210 m.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Jinderis (Jindires / Gindaros) — Hilltop Stronghold
Chalcolithic through Roman (Chalcolithic, EBA, Iron, Hellenistic-Roman Gindaros) · Afrin chalcolithic → Amuq EBA → Aramaean → Hellenistic-Roman Gindaros
Tell Jinderis (Jindires / Gindaros) — Hilltop Stronghold is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Aleppo Governorate, Afrin District, Afrin River plain, Kurd-Dagh, Syria — Afrin plain hilltop tell…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Mitchell Site
Mississippian (c.1050–1250 CE) Early–Middle Mississippian Stirling phase · Mississippian (Cahokia)
The Mitchell Site (11S2) is a Middle Mississippian mound-and-village suburb of Greater Cahokia on the Horseshoe Lake meander opposite Collinsville, Illinois.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ahar
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas 3000–1500 BCE; Iron Age and Early Historic overlay · Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic → Iron Age
Type-site of Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic (3000–1500 BCE) — 'copper city' Tambavati on Ahar River at Udaipur.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Poverty Point Mound B Summit
Formative to Mississippian (1500 BCE–1500 CE) · Woodland–Mississippian
Poverty Point Mound B Summit in Louisiana, West Carroll Parish, United States is a Formative to Mississippian (1500 BCE–1500 CE) earthwork attributed to Woodland–Mississippian.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Güzelova Höyük (Karasu Valley Mound)
Neolithic through Middle Bronze (5800–1500 BCE) · Erzurum Neolithic → Chalcolithic Karasau → EBA Kura-Araxes (Karaz)
Güzelova Höyük (Karasu Valley Mound) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Erzurum Province, Aşkale District, Karasu (Euphrates) valley, Turkey — Karasu/Euphrates headwater village documenting…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Mound
Sambaqui Figueirinha
Sambaqui (c.7000–1500 BCE) South-Central Brazilian Coast · Sambaqui – Camacho fishermen-collectors
Sambaqui Figueirinha near Jaguaruna, Santa Catarina, is a giant late Holocene shell mound (sambaqui) on the Imaruí–Garopaba coastal lagoon plain at 5 m asl.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tepe Sialk Necropolis B Extension South — Southern Extension
Chalcolithic-Early Bronze (4000-2800 BCE) · Proto-Elamite
Tepe Sialk Necropolis B Extension South — Southern Extension in Isfahan, Kashan, Iran is a Chalcolithic-Early Bronze (4000-2800 BCE) tell attributed to Proto-Elamite.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West — Northern Annex
Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (4000-2000 BCE) · Hissar Culture
Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West — Northern Annex in Semnan, Damghan, Iran is a Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (4000-2000 BCE) tell attributed to Hissar Culture.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Butkara Stupa — Pyramidal Swat Valley
Early Historic to Early Medieval (200 BCE–1000 CE, Mauryan to Hindu Shahi, Swat Gandhara) · Buddhist Gandhara (Mauryan, Indo-Greek, Kushan, Turki Shahi)
Butkara Stupa — Pyramidal Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Swat District, Mingora (Butkara I, Swat), Pakistan is a Early Historic to Early Medieval (200 BCE–1000 CE, Mauryan to Hindu Shahi, Swat…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tepe Sialk Necropolis B Extension South
Chalcolithic-Early Bronze (4000-2800 BCE) · Proto-Elamite
Tepe Sialk Necropolis B Extension South in Isfahan, Kashan, Iran is a Chalcolithic-Early Bronze (4000-2800 BCE) tell attributed to Proto-Elamite.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Las Ventanas
Classic to Epiclassic Chalchihuites (c.300–900 CE); Classic Suchil 300–500 CE, Alta Vista phase 600–800 CE · Chalchihuites (Suchil–Canutillo–Alta Vista) frontier mining–agricultural with Sierra Madre turquoise
Chalchihuites cinnabar–turquoise mining village (c.300–900 CE) with pyramid and ore roasting pits supplying Pueblo Bonito turquoise.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Rehman Dheri Mound — Gomal Plain
Early Harappan to Mature Harappan (3300–1900 BCE, Rehman Dheri I–III) · Early Harappan (Rehman Dheri culture, Kot Diji–Harappan)
Rehman Dheri Mound — Gomal Plain in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dera Ismail Khan, Gomal plain (Rehman Dheri), Pakistan is a Early Harappan to Mature Harappan (3300–1900 BCE, Rehman Dheri I–III) pyramid/mound…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Julian Mound — Taxila Pyramidal Stupa
Early Historic to Classical (200 BCE–500 CE, Indo-Greek, Kushan, Gupta) · Buddhist Gandhara (Taxila, Kushan, Indo-Greek heritage)
Julian Mound — Taxila Pyramidal Stupa in Punjab, Taxila Valley, Jaulian (Mohre Maliaran, Taxila), Pakistan is a Early Historic to Classical (200 BCE–500 CE, Indo-Greek, Kushan, Gupta) pyramid/mound…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Polyanitsa Platoto
Late Chalcolithic (c.4500–4200 BCE); KGK VI complex (Kodžadermen–Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI) · KGK VI Chalcolithic (Balkan Late Copper Age) Ludogorie facies
Ludogorie Chalcolithic fortified tell (c.4500–4200 BCE) with KGK VI burnt horizons and double ditch — Todorova.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Leake Mounds
Middle Woodland to Early Mississippian (Swift Creek–Cartersville) · Woodland (Swift Creek) / Early Mississippian
Moated Swift Creek town (300 BCE–650 CE) with 3 mounds and circular ditch on Etowah River, Georgia.