🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
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).
🇨🇳 China · Earthwork
Thornby Grove Earthwork
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Thornby Grove Earthwork in Henan, China is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) earthwork attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Bakla Tepe
EBA (c.3000-2000 BCE) · Western Anatolian EBA (Troy I-II, Yortan sphere)
Bakla Tepe — buried eba tell/village at İzmir Province.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Earthwork
Earthworks of Mine Hermitage
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Earthworks of Mine Hermitage in Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) earthwork attributed to Harappan culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Kfar HaHoresh
Middle PPNB · PPNB cult complex
PPNB cult and mortuary center (7500–6650 BCE) in the Nazareth hills, not a normal village but a regional feasting and secondary-burial site serving surrounding settlements.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Tell
Quay Jala Höyük
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Quay Jala Höyük in Buriram Province, Thailand is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) tell attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Earthwork
Earthworks of Hill
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Earthworks of Hill in Fars Province, Iran is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) earthwork attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Ovcharovo Tell — Targovishte Ritual House Tell
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (5700–4300 BCE) · Karanovo II–VI → Kodžadermen–Gumelniţa
Ritual house tell 5700 BCE — plaster floor with 13 inhumations (Todorova).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Beydar Field I — Nabada Lower Extensions
Early Jazira I–V (3100–2100 BCE) · Early Jazira Hurrian precursor → Akkadian
EJ II Nabada planned insula 2420 BCE — tablet sealings & kiln quarter (Lebeau).
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell el-Pit-Gill
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Tell el-Pit-Gill in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) tell attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Nebi Mend — Qadesh South Outer Town
EB IV to Persian (3000 BCE–330 BCE; peak LBA 1500–1200 BCE) · EB Amorite → Middle Bronze Amorite → Hittite Egyptian contested → Neo-Assyrian → Persian
Qadesh outer town 1274 BCE — Hittite–Egyptian battle plain south tell.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Ulucak Höyük
Neolithic–Early Bronze (6850–3000 BCE) · Aegean Neolithic
Neolithic–Early Bronze (6850–3000 BCE) Aegean Neolithic tell at Izmir Province, Kemalpaşa – longest continuous aegean neolithic sequence (dims Mound 15 m high, levels I–IVb over 45 building horizons).
🇵🇪 Peru · Tell
Tel Floodplain Höyük
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Tel Floodplain Höyük in Ancash, Peru is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) tell attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Tell Aswad — Damascus Basin Neolithic Village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8700–7500 BCE; phases I–III) · PPNB Levantine (Ghuta facies)
PPNB Ghuta village 8700 BCE — plastered skulls & earliest barley (Stordeur).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Kashkashok III
Ubaid–Uruk (5200–3100 BCE) · Ubaid – Uruk
Ubaid–Uruk (5200–3100 BCE) Ubaid – Uruk tell at Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur tributary – ubaid–uruk village on khabur tributary (dims Mound 2 ha, 6 m Ubaid–Uruk).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Malyan
Chalcolithic to Iron (c.4000 BCE–600 BCE; peak Proto-Elamite 3200–2800, Middle Elamite 1500–1100) · Proto-Elamite → Old Elamite → Middle Elamite (Anshan) → Persian Anshan
Malyan (Tal-e Malyan) is ancient Anshan — the great Elamite highland capital (130 ha) with Proto-Elamite tablets (3200 BCE, second after Uruk), Banesh phase mon...
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell Deir Alla (Pethor/Succoth)
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Deir Alla (Pethor/Succoth) — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Balqa Governorate.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Yunatsite Tell — Pazardzhik Buried Balkans Tell
Early Neolithic to EBA (5800–2200 BCE; ditch phase 4600 BCE) · Karanovo I–VI → Karanovo VI–Gumelniţa → Ezero
Massacre tell 4600 BCE — 30 perimortem skeletons in ditches (Katincharov).
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Megiddo
Chalcolithic to Iron Age / Persian · Canaanite → Egyptian → Israelite
Strategic tell commanding Via Maris (Egypt-Mesopotamia road) through Jezreel, occupied 7000 BCE–586 BCE with 26 strata, Thutmosis III 1457 BCE battle (first battle in recorded history), Canaanite…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Menteşe Höyük
Neolithic (6400–6000 BCE, Fikirtepe) · Marmara Neolithic
Neolithic (6400–6000 BCE, Fikirtepe) Marmara Neolithic tell at Bursa Province, Iznik Basin – fikirtepe hamlet on former lake terrace (dims Mound 120 m diam, 4 m Fikirtepe deposits).
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mount Royal Archaeological Site
St Johns IIc–Mississippian 1050–1562 CE (midden 3000 BCE onward) · St Johns (Timucua ancestors)
St Johns platform mound 6.7 m with 300 m causeway and 6000-year midden, contacted 1562 by French.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Baiqa
Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) · EB South Levantine (Ghouta)
Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) EB South Levantine (Ghouta) tell at Damascus Basin, Ghouta fringe – eb walled town on damascus oasis fringe (dims Mound 8 ha, wall 8 m thick).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Mardikh — Ebla Lower Town South
EBA I to Old Syrian (3500–1600 BCE; peak Eblaite Palace G 2400 BCE) · EBA Eblaite → Eblaite Syrian → Old Syrian (Yamhad)
Eblaite capital lower town 2400 BCE — 17k tablets south quarter & Temple of Rock.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Tell
Ridge Grotto Höyük
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Ridge Grotto Höyük in Petén, Guatemala is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic culture.