🇳🇱 Netherlands · Ancient village
Hazendonk Donk Settlement
Middle to Late Neolithic · Hazendonk Group / Vlaardingen
Neolithic river dune (donk) settlement Hazendonk (c. 4000–2000 BCE) on Rhine-Meuse levee, type-site for Hazendonk Group pottery.
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🇳🇱 Netherlands · Ancient village
Middle to Late Neolithic · Hazendonk Group / Vlaardingen
Neolithic river dune (donk) settlement Hazendonk (c. 4000–2000 BCE) on Rhine-Meuse levee, type-site for Hazendonk Group pottery.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Ancient village
Middle Neolithic (Swifterbant) · Swifterbant
Swifterbant culture river dune settlement S3 (c. 4300–4000 BCE) on buried levee in former Flevoland wetland, with pottery, antler, bone and early cereal evidence.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (c.5000–2500 BCE; Iblis I–VI) · Yahya-related Chalcolithic → Early Bronze Kerman
Kerman Chalcolithic copper centre (5000 BCE) with earliest slag/crucibles south of Kerman.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Ceramic Neolithic to Chalcolithic (c.6000–4000 BCE) · Ali Kosh → Chagha Sefid → Sabz → Farukh (Deh Luran Ceramic)
Deh Luran Ceramic Neolithic painted centre (6000 BCE) succeeding Ali Kosh.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Hassuna to Halaf (c.6000–5000 BCE; Hassuna incubator) · Proto-Hassuna → Hassuna → Halaf Nineveh
Incubator Hassuna village (6000 BCE) with pisé round huts on Sinjar plain.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ubaid to Jemdet Nasr (c.5500–3000 BCE) · Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → Jemdet Nasr Hamrin
Hamrin Ubaid tripartite centre (5500 BCE) with sealings in Hamrin basin.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Aceramic to Ceramic Neolithic (c.8200–7600 BCE) · Zagros PPN/Pottery Neolithic (Ganj Dareh horizon)
Zagros goat-domestication mound (8200 BCE) with two-storey pisé houses east of Kermanshah.
🇬🇷 Greece · Tell
Early to Middle Neolithic · Sesklo Culture
Classic Early to Middle Neolithic tell (c. 6000–4800 BCE) near Volos, type-site of Sesklo culture with early painted pottery, megaron-like houses and fortification wall.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Elamite (c.3800–1100 BCE; Uruk 3500 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic Uruk-related → Proto-Elamite → Elamite
Ramhormoz Late Chalcolithic centre (3800 BCE) with Uruk and Proto-Elamite horizon north of Ramhormoz.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Samarran to Halaf (c.6200–5000 BCE) · Samarran → Hassuna–Halaf (Basmusian)
Dokan Samarran-Hassuna village (6200–5000 BCE) on Dokan southeast plain.
🇭🇺 Hungary · Tell
Early Neolithic to Medieval · Körös / Tisza / medieval Hungarian
Multi-period tell at Vésztő-Mágor (c. 5000 BCE to Middle Ages), 5 m high Neolithic to Bronze Age mound with Körös, Tisza and medieval monastery layers.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Middle Bronze (c.3000–1500 BCE) · EB Euphrates urban → Middle Bronze Amorite
Euphrates terrace walled city (3000–1500 BCE) in Hadidi bend, now under Lake Assad.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic · Karanovo VI / Gumelnița
Northern terrace of Yunatsite tell (c. 5000–4100 BCE), 12 m high mound with Chalcolithic destruction layers, copper metallurgy and fortification, extension of main tell showing violent end c.
🇭🇺 Hungary · Tell
Late Neolithic · Tisza / Csőszhalom
Late Neolithic double tell-horizontal settlement (c. 4800–4500 BCE) on Tisza floodplain, 28 ha with tell core 2 m high, ditch enclosures and 4 m deep well.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Middle Neolithic (Vinča A3) · Vinča (Turdaș)
Vinča pit settlement at Tărtăria (c. 5300 BCE) on Mureș River, famous for three clay tablets with Vinča signs found in pit with burnt human bones, 26 figurines and shells, sparking proto-writing…
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Neolithic Yangshao (5800–3000 BCE; classic 5000–3000 BCE) · Yangshao (Dadiwan culture, Painted Pottery)
Dadiwan is the type site of Yangshao Dadiwan culture (5800–3000 BCE) on the Wei River terrace — 50-ha Neolithic village with 200+ house pits, painted pottery, and the 290-m² Palace F901 (4000 BCE,…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Tepeticpac (Tlaxcala hill town) — buried prehistoric tell/village at Tlaxcala State.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Period Classical · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Mideast 107 — Turkey Region 11 in Turkey Region 11, Turkey is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Mideast 96 — Turkey Region 12 in Turkey Region 12, Turkey is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Chambered Cairn Hill Mideast 15 — Israel Region 3 in Israel Region 3, Israel is a Neolithic tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇲🇱 Mali · Tell
Djenné-Djeno phase (250 BCE – 1400 CE; West Mound 300–900 CE) · Djenné-Djeno (Inland Niger Delta urbanism)
Western extension of Djenné-Djeno city cluster (2 km from central tell) with 450×400 m mound, floodplain ditch, iron workshops and terracotta of Inland Niger urbanism 800 years pre...
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Period Bronze Age · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Fortress Citadel Mideast 4 — Jordan Region 4 in Jordan Region 4, Jordan is a Bronze Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Period Classical · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Quarry Gallery Mideast 81 — Israel Region 9 in Israel Region 9, Israel is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Kurgan Field Mideast 80 — Syria Region 8 in Syria Region 8, Syria is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.