🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus
Tumulus of Eilean Doab
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Tumulus of Eilean Doab in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) tumulus attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Old Hattusa Temple II — Hattusa (60-43)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Old Hattusa Temple II — Hattusa (60-43) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Chalcolithic (regional) temple complex of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 800 CE for temple and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Underground city
Central Derinkuyu Terrace II — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-19)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Central Derinkuyu Terrace II — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-19) at Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Chalcolithic (regional) underground city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Earthwork
Lower Hattusa Necropolis II — Hattusa (60-10)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Lower Hattusa Necropolis II — Hattusa (60-10) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Chalcolithic (regional) contested of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for necropolis and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tomb
Outer Derinkuyu Reservoir West — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-14)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Outer Derinkuyu Reservoir West — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-14) at Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Chalcolithic (regional) tomb of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Earthwork
Royal Hattusa Mound II — Hattusa (60-26)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Royal Hattusa Mound II — Hattusa (60-26) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Chalcolithic (regional) contested of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 200 CE for mound and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Kenan Tepe
Pottery Neolithic to Early Bronze (6000–3000 BCE; peak LCh–Uruk 4500–3100 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic north Mesopotamian → Uruk fringe
Upper Tigris concentric Chalcolithic complex with Uruk Bevelled Rim contact horizon.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tell Kurdu (Amuq)
Halaf through EBA; Ubaid peak · Amuq Halaf → Ubaid → Amuq F (L. Chalcolithic–EBA)
Halaf-Ubaid tell (15 ha oval) defining Late Chalcolithic Ubaid north expansion, with tripartite kiln houses and channel-painted ceramics.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Hacınebi Tepe South — Lower Slopes
Late Chalcolithic 3800–3100 BCE (Phases A–B2) then Roman farmstead · Late Chalcolithic → Uruk contact/colonial → Roman
Uruk contact citadel lower town — Late Chalcolithic B2 Uruk colony (3600 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Aşvan Kale
Chalcolithic to Medieval (c.5000 BCE–1400 CE; fortified from Early Bronze) · Chalcolithic → Early Bronze (Transcaucasian) → Hittite → Urartian → Roman-Byzantine
Keban rescue fort (7 ka) on Murat River — Transcaucasian EB and Byzantine fort now under reservoir.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Başur Höyük
Late Chalcolithic (LC4-5) pre-Uruk to Jemdet Nasr · Upper Tigris LC culture (Uruk-extended / local transcaucasian)
Siirt ‘royal’ chalcolithic cemetery (3500–3000 BCE) with retainer burials — copper, lapis and earliest gaming set at Uruk fringe, Upper Tigris inequality origin.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Beycesultan Höyük
Late Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze to Byzantine · Western Anatolian (Troy I prelude → Hittite Luwian)
Multi-period mega-tell (c.4000 BCE Late Chalcolithic to 1200 BCE Byzantine, peak EBA–MBA) dominating Çivril Plain on Meander headwaters, excavated 1954–59 by Seton Lloyd & James Mellaart then 2007–…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortified city
Büyükkaya
Chalcolithic to Iron Age (c.5500 BCE–600 CE; Hittite capital eastern quarters) · Chalcolithic → Hittite Empire → Phrygian → Iron Age polity → Byzantine
Eastern citadel of Hittite Hattusa on Budaközü gorge — silos and Iron Age polity above Boğazköy.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Canhasan
Pottery Neolithic to Early Bronze · Central Anatolian Chalcolithic
Three mounds (Canhasan I, II, III) spanning Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic-Early Bronze (c.6000–3000 BCE) on the south Konya Plain, bridging Çatalhöyük to Mersin-Yumuktepe.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Güvercinkayası
Middle Chalcolithic (Ubaid-related Late Chalcolithic 5500–4000 BCE window) · Central Anatolian Chalcolithic (Aksaray-Melendiz)
Middle Chalcolithic rocky citadel (5200–4800 BCE) — fortified island town on Melendiz obsidian route, Gülçur type-site.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Hacılar
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic · Burdur Lake Neolithic (Hacılar culture)
Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic tell (5700–3500 BCE) in the Burdur Lake District, where James Mellaart uncovered nine aceramic and ceramic Neolithic levels with lime-plaster floors and spectacular…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Korucutepe
Chalcolithic to Ottoman (c.5000 BCE–1500 CE; Kurgan elite 2600–2300 BCE) · Chalcolithic → Early Bronze Kurgan → Hittite → Urartian → Byzantine
Altınova mound with Early Bronze Maikop-affine kurgan elite tombs (2600 BCE) at Elazığ.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Kuruçay Höyük
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic to Early Bronze · Hacilar-Kuruçay-Beycesultan sequence
Neolithic to Early Bronze lakeside tell with 13 levels (c.6200–3800 BCE, + EBA), bridging Hacilar (Level 6 early pottery) to Chalcolithic fortified town.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Köşk Höyük
Neolithic–Late Chalcolithic (6000–3200 BCE) · Central Anatolian (Cappadocian) Neolithic–Chalcolithic
Bor Plateau Neolithic village with painted floors, earliest copper and plastered skulls.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Sos Höyük
Chalcolithic to Medieval (c.4500 BCE–1453 CE; Kura-Araxes from 3500 BCE) · Chalcolithic → Kura-Araxes (Karaz) → Early Transcaucasian → Urartian → Medieval
Transcaucasian gateway mound (4500 BCE–1453 CE) with 6 ka Kura-Araxes to Seljuk sequence at Erzurum.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Çadır Höyük
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (5200 BCE–1200 CE; peak Hittite and Phrygian) · Central Anatolian Chalcolithic → Hattian → Hittite → Phrygian → Roman
Yozgat tell with 5200 BCE-to-Byzantine sequence bridging central plateau and Hittite north.
🇹🇷 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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
İkiztepe Samsun — Black Sea Buried Village and Cemetery
Late Chalcolithic to EBA III (4200–2000 BCE) · Pontic Chalcolithic–EBA (Bafra horizon; Maikop affinities)
Pontic coastal necropolis 4200–2000 BCE — 600 graves, arsenical bronze.