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14 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic → EB I–III → MBA (4300–2000 BCE) · Pontic EBA (Kızılırmak Black Sea, Balkan-Caucasus interface)
Black Sea delta cemetery-tell (4300–2000 BCE) — 2400 EBA gifted graves with arsenical copper, Pontic metallurgy nexus.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Cemetery
Final Neolithic (6000–4300 BCE El Nabta / Al Jerar) · Nabta pastoral Neolithic (Gebel Ramlah phase)
Ramlah excavated by Polish Combined Prehistoric Expedition 2009–, 5500 BCE jewels including 3000 beads per burial.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Cemetery
Early Bronze Age (c.2800–2300 BCE; cemetery c.2400 BCE) · North-Central Anatolian Early Bronze (Alacahöyük-Horoztepe horizon)
Extra-mural Early Bronze princely cemetery (2400 BCE) with Alaca-like bronzes at Erbaa.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Postclassic (c.1200–1519 CE) Totonac – Aztec contested · Totonac
Quiahuiztlan crowns the dramatic Cerro del Bernal ridge above Villa Rica–La Antigua, north of Veracruz city.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Cemetery
Hoabinhian late 6000 BP → Da But Neolithic transition · Da But — Hoabinhian→Neolithic cemetery transition on Ma plain
Con Co Ngua Cemetery — Da But cemetery (6000–5500 BP, late Hoabinhian-Neolithic transition) on limestone knoll at Ha Trung 35 km N Thanh Hoa, excavated 1979–98 and 2013 by V.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Horizon Inca Imperial 1440–1530 CE (built under Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui) · Inca (Quechua, Late Horizon, Sacred Valley expansion)
Inca royal estate and agricultural terraces considered among finest Inca ashlar engineering beyond Machu Picchu: Intihuatana (Sun-hitching stone) solstice-gnomon ridge, Qalla Q'asa fortress on…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age (c.2100–1600 BCE) · Bronze Age Peak District (Food Vessel)
Small oval kerb circle (6 stones, 4.5 x 6 m) kerbing Bronze Age cremation cemetery with rich incense cup burials.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Jomon Early 7000 → Late Jomon 3000 BP · Jomon Hokuriku Noto — Mawaki dolphin hunters
Mawaki Noto Shell Mound — Jomon early to late massive shell midden with dolphin remains (c.7000–3000 BP) on Noto Peninsula bay at Mawaki, Hokuriku, excavated 1980s–90s.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.5000–2900 BCE) · Qazvin plain Chalcolithic (Zagheh–Qabrestan)
Qazvin tell 12 m high (c.5000–2900 BCE, Zagheh→Qabrestan, cemetery) south of Qazvin.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Cemetery
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE; Cemetery R-37 2600–2000) · Harappan Harappa
Harappa cemetery excavated by Wheeler 1946 and Dales, 200 graves with coffins and steppe DNA later.
🇺🇸 United States · Cemetery
Late Archaic (3000 – 1500 BCE) · Shell Mound Archaic
Indian Knoll in Kentucky, United States is a Late Archaic (3000 – 1500 BCE) cemetery attributed to Shell Mound Archaic culture.
🇮🇳 India · Cemetery
Late Harappan (2000–1600 BCE) · Harappan Late (Cemetery H?)
Rohtak Farmana excavated by Shinde & Osada 2006–09, 42 skeletons with grave goods DNA later.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic (Fikirtepe) · Marmara Neolithic (Fikirtepe)
Marmara type-site (c.6600–6000 BCE, Fikirtepe) bridging Anatolia and Balkan Neolithisation south of Lake İznik.
