🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Bestansur
Early Neolithic (c.8000–7100 BCE; Bestansur horizon) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic B → Pottery Neolithic Shahrizor
Shahrizor PPNB town (8000–7100 BCE) with courtyard houses and plaster floors SE of Sulaymaniyah.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Daruk
Early Bronze to Iron Age (c.2800–500 BCE) · EB coastal → Middle Bronze Canaanite → Late Bronze Ugaritic → Iron
Secondary coastal tell (2800–500 BCE) on Jableh-Baniyas corridor south of Sianu.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Ali Kosh
Early Neolithic (c.7500–6000 BCE; Ali Kosh sequence 7500–6000 BCE) · Bus Mordeh → Ali Kosh → Mohammed Jaffar (Deh Luran)
Deh Luran Neolithic eponym (7500–6000 BCE) defining Iran's Bus Mordeh–Ali Kosh sequence.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell Hizzin
Early Bronze to Iron Age (c.3000–600 BCE) · EB Bekaa → Middle Bronze → Iron
Western Bekaa foothill agrarian mound (3000–600 BCE) with Iron deep silos near Zahle.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Qannas
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.