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🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (4500 BCE+) · Chalcolithic
Wadi Faynan — Khirbat Faynan in Aqaba Governorate, Wadi Araba, Jordan is a Chalcolithic to Byzantine (4500 BCE+) hydraulic attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Underground city
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Sacred Saqqara Ridge II — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-45) at Saqqara, Serapeum, Egypt is a Chalcolithic (regional) underground city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Thwaite Temple Complex in River Nile State, Sudan is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) temple complex attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
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.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic (4500–3500 BCE) · NE Iran Chalcolithic
Chalcolithic (4500–3500 BCE) tell of NE Iran Chalcolithic in North Khorasan, Jajarm (c.4500 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Chalcolithic Bakun phase (c.4800–4000 BCE); Ubaid-related Bakun painted ware · Bakun (Fars Chalcolithic) with Ubaid–Susiana ties and early Elamite precursor
Bakun painted Chalcolithic capital (c.4800–4000 BCE) with 20-room admin complex and seals — Marvdasht chiefdom precursor (Persepolis 7 km).
🇫🇷 France · Rock-cut
Chalcolithic (3000-2300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Hypogee des Crottes de Rouaix II — Western Terrace in Provence, Vaucluse, France is a Chalcolithic (3000-2300 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Chalcolithic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Sacred Alexandria Enclosure I — Alexandria, Pharos (58-05) at Alexandria, Pharos, Egypt is a Chalcolithic (regional) submerged city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
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.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (c.3800–2500 BCE) · Los Millares / Alentejo Chalcolithic (tholos tradition)
Antequera hill tholos (corbelled dome 5.2 m) with 26 m corridor — Mediterranean-type beehive tomb 4 km north of Menga/Viera.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Chalcolithic (c.4000–3000 BCE) · Alentejo Megalithic
Squared (7 x 7 m) Alentejo cromlech of 55 small monoliths around 4 m phallic central menhir with cupules — moved for Alqueva dam.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Chalcolithic – Early Bronze Age (c.3000–1700 BCE) · Vila Nova de São Pedro / Bell Beaker (Estremadura)
Atlantic Copper Age hilltop proto-town (3000–1700 BCE) with walls, bastions, barbican and Bell Beaker metallurgy.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I (Timnian to EB I) · Timnian–Ghassulian to EB I plateau pastoralists
28 Wadi al-Hasa plateau kites (4500–3000 BCE) with 15 meadow lures — Edom rim hunting province.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Amri IA–IB (4000–3000) → Kot Diji (3000–2600) → Harappan · Amri culture / Nal-related → Early Harappan
Chalcolithic type-site for Amri culture (c.4000–3000 BCE) on the west bank of the Indus in Dadu/Jamshoro, Sindh — 4 ha mound with four periods: Amri IA–IB (thin red ware with geometric black…
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient village
Late Neolithic–Late Chalcolithic (5900–4000 BCE; wine horizon 5400 BCE) · Hajji Firuz / Dalma (Urmia basin Chalcolithic)
Solduz Valley Chalcolithic village with world's earliest wine jars (5400 BCE tartaric acid).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Hassuna–Samarran, Ubaid (6000–4800 BCE) · Samarra culture
Type mound for Samarran culture immediately south of Samarra on cliff overlooking Tigris floodplain, excavated by al-Adhami and Yasin (1964–69).
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Late Chalcolithic (Uruk Expansion) · Uruk-influenced North Mesopotamian (Nagar)
Late Chalcolithic Eye Temple platform at Tell Brak (Nagar) c.3800 BCE: 40×30 m earliest monumental terrace with alabaster eye idols — millennium precursor to ziggurat.
🇲🇹 Malta · Underground city
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Eastern Hypogeum Platform Outer — Hypogeum, Paola (59-40) at Hypogeum, Paola, Malta is a Chalcolithic (regional) underground city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tomb
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.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Ancient city
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Great Great Zimbabwe Citadel North — Great Zimbabwe (57-13) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Chalcolithic (regional) ancient city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Rock art
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Central Great Zimbabwe Village South — Great Zimbabwe (57-12) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Chalcolithic (regional) rock art of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Temple complex
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Outer Potosí Reservoir Outer — Potosí (55-08) at Potosí, Bolivia is a Chalcolithic (regional) temple complex of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for reservoir and associated settlement.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (Karanovo VI–Gumelniţa) · Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI–Varna complex
Type-site of Gumelniţa culture (c.4700–3950 BCE, Late Chalcolithic), 4-m tell on Danube Borcea island dominating copper-trade axis: two-storey Tell houses with plastered benches, Varna-grade copper…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Little Yucatan Temple I — Yucatan (55-03) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Chalcolithic (regional) temple complex of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for temple and associated settlement.
