🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Halula South — Euphrates Pre-Pottery Annex
PPNA to PPNB (7800–5400 BCE; main 7600–6000 BCE) · PPNB Mureybetian → PPNB (Euphrates)
PPNB mega-village 7600 BCE — communal plastered houses & skull cult (Molist).
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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
PPNA to PPNB (7800–5400 BCE; main 7600–6000 BCE) · PPNB Mureybetian → PPNB (Euphrates)
PPNB mega-village 7600 BCE — communal plastered houses & skull cult (Molist).
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI–Kodžadermen (4600–4300 BCE) · Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen–Karanovo VI
Chalcolithic burned village 4600 BCE — 407 gold items neighbouring mound (Chohadzhiev).
🇦🇺 Australia · Earthwork
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Selby Earthwork in New South Wales, Australia is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) earthwork attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Postclassic (Medio/Chihuahua culture) · Mogollon-Paquimé (Oasisamerica)
Largest pre-Hispanic pueblo city of northern Mexico (c.1130–1340 CE, 70 ha, population ~2,500) with multi-storey adobe apartments, T-shaped doors, I-shaped ballcourts (Mesoamerican), macaw breeding…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
EBA II–III (2600–2000 BCE) · North-Central Anatolian EBA (Alaca-Horoztepe horizon)
EBA elite shaft-cemetery 2500 BCE — gold diadems & stag stands (Özgüç).
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Tell
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Tell Grove Khirbet in Petén, Guatemala is a Moche (100–800 CE) tell attributed to Moche culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen (4600–4300 BCE) · Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI–Varna
Gumelniţa gold necropolis 4600 BCE — 1500 flat graves with Spondylus (Andreescu).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Uruk to Islamic (4000 BCE–1200 CE) · Uruk → EBA Karababa → MBA → Hellenistic
Uruk–EBA ford mound 2700 BCE — burnt sealing houses at Qara Quzaq crossing.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf-Ubaid to Late Bronze (5.5k–1200 BCE) · Ubaid → Khabur → Mitanni → Middle Assyrian
Beşiri Tigris tell (Ubaid through Late Bronze) with 12 m sequence — Mitanni kilns and Khabur ware, Ilısu Garzan buffer salvage.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Early Dynastic III–Akkadian (c.2500–1900 BCE) · Halil (Jiroft) / Proto-Elamite late → Early Dynastic sphere
Monumental third-millennium citadel (13 ha, 21 m high mound with 300 m lower town) on the Halil River, excavated by Yous...
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Ancient city
Lihyan to Nabataean to Roman Arabia Petraea · Nabataean Arab
Second capital of Nabataean kingdom after Petra (1st c. BCE–106 CE), with 131 rock-cut monumental tombs with decorated façades (Qasr al-Farid loner tomb iconic), Nabataean Aramaic inscriptions…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (4000 BCE–1200 CE; peak EBA–Phrygian) · EBA → Hittite → Phrygian → Lydian → Byzantine
Central Anatolian plateau capital lower town — Hittite karum to Phrygian burn.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Tell
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Tell Fan-Moss Burgh in County Kerry, Ireland is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) tell attributed to Nazca culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period 2200–1000 BCE, Sechín-Casma tradition · Casma-Sechín (Initial Period)
Secondary platform south of main Las Haldas pyramid on coastal terrace 20 m above Pacific tidal flat: 9 m high stepped platform 40×35 m with plastered stair facing sea, contemporary with Sechín Bajo…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Serpent Mound Egg Enclosure in Mississippi Valley, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Earthwork
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Sine-Saloum Shell Midden South in Nok Valley, Nigeria is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf → Mitanni → Neo-Assyrian (615 BCE lib) → Hellenistic → Islamic · Halaf → Mitanni Hurrian → Middle & Neo-Assyrian → Islamic
Neo-Assyrian library tell — 400 tablets of Gilgamesh (615 BCE Huzirina).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Earthwork
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Kukulkan El Castillo Annex in Southern Alluvium, Iraq is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Laponia Wooden Stave Foundation East in Najd, Saudi Arabia is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Classical culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Early Woodland Adena 1000–400 BCE · Adena
Large Adena conical mound (38 ft/11.5 m high, 140 ft/43 m diameter) preserved in Indian Mound Reserve, Enon. One of the best-preserved Adena mounds in Ohio, surrounded by former enclosures now plowed.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Sea-Cliff Exposed Mound North in Dnieper, Ukraine is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) tell attributed to Classical culture.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Angkor Baray Extension South in Najd, Saudi Arabia is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Rampart Buried Gate West in Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) tell attributed to Medieval culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Early Woodland Adena · Adena
Adena conical mound (19.5 ft/6 m high, 95 ft/29 m diameter) preserved as Story Mound State Memorial, encircled by suburban Chillicothe but intact with original ditch.