🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Selevac
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Selevac — buried prehistoric tell/village at Šumadija District.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Salmon Pueblo (Salmon Ruins / San Juan Chaco Outlier)
Pueblo II–III (Chacoan outlier 1088–1125, Mesa Verde reoccupation 1180–1250) · Ancestral Puebloan (Chacoan outlier → Mesa Verde/San Juan)
Salmon Pueblo (Salmon Ruins / San Juan Chaco Outlier) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in New Mexico, San Juan County, San Juan River, Farmington-Bloomfield, United States — Northernmost…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Karanovo Tell South Sector
Early Neolithic to Late Chalcolithic (6200–3800 BCE) · Karanovo I–VII → KGK VI (Gumelnița–Karanovo VI)
Karanovo Tell South Sector is the southern lobe of Karanovo tell — the type-site for Balkan Neolithic–Chalcolithic chronology (Karanovo I–VII, 6200–3800 BCE) on the Thracian plain.
🇹🇷 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).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West — Southern Extension
Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (4000-2000 BCE) · Hissar Culture
Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West — Southern Extension in Semnan, Damghan, Iran is a Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (4000-2000 BCE) tell attributed to Hissar Culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Hârşova Tell
Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE) · Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE)
Hârşova Tell in Constanța County, Danube, Hârșova town, Romania is a Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE) settlement attributed to Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE) culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Kazel (Sumur/Simyra)
MB → LBA Egyptian/Hittite → Iron Phoenician → Persian → Hellenistic (2000–300 BCE) · Amorite → Egyptian (Amarna) → Hittite → Phoenician
Amarna Sumur (350×325 m oval) — Egyptian garrison, Hittite destruction, Phoenician plain capital in Akkar.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
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.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Afis (Afis / Hazrek) — Royal Platform Quarter
Early Bronze IV through Iron Age (EB IV, Iron Hazrek, Neo-Assyrian) · EB Syrian → Aramaean Hazrek → Neo-Assyrian
Tell Afis (Afis / Hazrek) — Royal Platform Quarter is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Idlib Governorate, Idlib District, Orontes valley east, Syria — Aramaean Hazrek kingdom capital — Zakkur…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chakhmaqlu Tepe
Chalcolithic (4500–3500 BCE) · NE Iran Chalcolithic
Chalcolithic (4500–3500 BCE) tell of NE Iran Chalcolithic in North Khorasan, Jajarm (c.4500 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tall-i Bakun (A & B)
Late Chalcolithic Bakun phase (c.4800–4000 BCE); Ubaid-related Bakun painted ware · Bakun (Fars Chalcolithic) with Ubaid–Susiana ties and early Elamite precursor
Bakun painted Chalcolithic capital (c.4800–4000 BCE) with 20-room admin complex and seals — Marvdasht chiefdom precursor (Persepolis 7 km).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ur Buried Pit Grave PG1420 Gold Dagger Hoard
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–EBA
Ur Buried Pit Grave PG1420 Gold Dagger Hoard in Dhi Qar, Ur, Iraq is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic–EBA.
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Kunal Mound — Haryana Saraswati
Early Harappan (4000–2800 BCE, Kunal culture, Hakra ware) · Early Harappan (Kunal–Hakra ware, pre-Kot Diji)
Kunal Mound — Haryana Saraswati in Haryana, Fatehabad District, Saraswati palaeochannel (Kunal), India is a Early Harappan (4000–2800 BCE, Kunal culture, Hakra ware) pyramid/mound site attributed to…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Northern Luxor Reservoir Central — Luxor, Thebes (53-26)
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Northern Luxor Reservoir Central — Luxor, Thebes (53-26) at Luxor, Thebes, Egypt is a Iron Age (regional) tell of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 400 BCE for reservoir and associated settlement.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell Abu Suwan
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Abu Suwan — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Mafraq Governorate.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Maydos Kilisetepe
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Maydos Kilisetepe — buried prehistoric tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Călărași-Măgura Gumelnița
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Călărași-Măgura Gumelnița — buried prehistoric tell/village at Călărași County.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Paquimé (Casas Grandes) — Medio Period Great House and Mound
Medio Period (Casas Grandes, 1205–1340 CE) with Viejo substrate · Casas Grandes (Chihuahua Culture / Mogollon–Paquimé)
Paquimé (Casas Grandes) — Medio Period Great House and Mound is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Chihuahua State, Casas Grandes Municipality, Rio Casas Grandes valley, Mexico — Largest northern…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Hesban (Tell Hesban / Esbus)
Iron Age – Byzantine (1200 BCE–600 CE) · Moabite–Ammonite–Roman
Iron Age – Byzantine (1200 BCE–600 CE) tell of Moabite–Ammonite–Roman in Balqa Governorate, Madaba Plains (c.1200 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Girnavaz Höyük
Late Bronze to Iron Age (1600–600 BCE) · Mitanni → Assyrian
Late Bronze to Iron Age (1600–600 BCE) tell of Mitanni → Assyrian in Mardin Province, Nusaybin Plain (c.1600 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
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…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Radovanu Tell (Radovanu-Gorgana / Călărași Terrace)
Late Neolithic through Eneolithic (Boian → Gumelnița → Cernavodă) · Boian → Gumelnița (Kodžadermen-Karanovo VI) → Cernavodă
Radovanu Tell (Radovanu-Gorgana / Călărași Terrace) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Călărași County, Radovanu Commune, Argeș terrace, Danube plain, Romania — Argeș–Danube Gumelnița terrace…