🇹🇷 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.
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus
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 · Ancient village
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
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
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 · Tell
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.