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89 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (c.4500–4200 BCE); KGK VI complex (Kodžadermen–Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI) · KGK VI Chalcolithic (Balkan Late Copper Age) Ludogorie facies
Ludogorie Chalcolithic fortified tell (c.4500–4200 BCE) with KGK VI burnt horizons and double ditch — Todorova.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE) · Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE)
Ovcharovo Tell in Targovishte Province, Ovcharovo village, Bulgaria is a Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE) settlement attributed to Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE) culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Neolithic (2500–2000) → Chalcolithic (2000–1300) → Iron Age (1300–600 BCE) · Vindhyan–Kaimur Chalcolithic (Senuwar culture)
Multi-period Chalcolithic–Neolithic mound (c.2500–600 BCE) on Kudra River at foot of Kaimur scarp near Sasaram, Bihar — 3.2 ha with 6.5 m deposit excavated 1986–90 by B.P. Singh (BHU).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) · Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE)
Teleilat Ghassul in Balqa Governorate, Jordan Valley, Dead Sea N, Jordan is a Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) settlement attributed to Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) · Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE)
Pietrele Tell in Teleorman / Giurgiu region, Danube plain, Pietrele village, Romania is a Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) settlement attributed to Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
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.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Chalcolithic (c.3000–2500 BCE) · Algarve Chalcolithic (Los Millares–Vila Nova de São Pedro group)
Alcalar (Chalcolithic 3000–2500 BCE) is a fortified hilltop settlement and 18-mound necropolis crowning the Alcalar ridge between Portimão and Lagos, Algarve, with the massive Monument 7 tholos: a…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas 3000–1700 BCE · Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic — Mewar Plain Banas Basin
Gilund Modiya Magara Mound — largest Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic settlement (3000–1700 BCE) in Banas Basin, locally Modiya Magari (bald mound), 25×18 ha dual mound excavated 1959–60 by B.B.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE) · Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE)
Medvednjak in Šumadija District, Smederevska Palanka, Jasenica Valley, Serbia is a Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE) settlement attributed to Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE) culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas 3000–1500 BCE → Early Historic 6th c BCE · Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic (Mewar) — Black-and-Red Ware
Balathal Chalcolithic Mound — type-site of Ahar-Banas complex ( Chalcolithic 3000–1500 BCE with Early Historic overlay) excavated 1994–2000 by V.N.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic 1300–1200 → Early Iron Age 1200–300 BCE · Vidarbha Chalcolithic → Iron Age transition — Adam facies
Adam Wainganga Mound — Iron Age Chalcolithic–Megalithic transition site (1300–300 BCE) on Nag River at Kuhi, first recognized Chalcolithic-to-Iron Age mound in Vidarbha, excavated 1988–89 and…
🇹🇷 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.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient village
Late Chalcolithic Namazga II–IV 3500–2000 BCE · Kopet Chalcolithic (Kara-Depe facies)
Namazga II–IV Chalcolithic mound (c.3500–2000 BCE) on the Kopet chain between Geok-Tepe and Kaahka — Kara-Depe excavated 1950s–60s by Masson and Berezkin, 3 ha tell with tripartite painted ware…
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Chalcolithic (c.3000–2800 BCE) · Valencina Chalcolithic (Guadalquivir millares group)
Dolmen de Matarrubilla (Chalcolithic c.3000–2800 BCE) on the Aljarafe plateau above Valencina, Seville, is a 34-m corridor tholos with dry-stone chamber 2 m diameter capped by a 2-m granite capstone…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (Karanovo → Gumelnița–Varna) · Boian → Gumelnița–Karanovo VI–Varna
Fortified Chalcolithic tell (c.4500–4000 BCE, Gumelnița-Karanovo VI–Varna complex, + Early Neolithic base c.6000 BCE) near Hotnitsa waterfall (Kaya Bunar cascade 30 m) on Yantra terrace.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ubaid to Middle Bronze (5000–1500 BCE; peak Chalcolithic 4500–3500 BCE) · Northern Ubaid → Gawran Chalcolithic → Uruk → Early Dynastic → Mitanni
Northern Ubaid–Uruk reference mound with 18 m Round House and 20-level sequence.
🇵🇰 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…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Neolithic–Late Chalcolithic (6000–3200 BCE) · Central Anatolian (Cappadocian) Neolithic–Chalcolithic
Bor Plateau Neolithic village with painted floors, earliest copper and plastered skulls.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Kayatha 2400–2000 → Malwa 1700–1400 BCE → Early Historic · Kayatha culture (type-site) → Malwa Chalcolithic
Kayatha Choti Kali Sindh Mound — Kayatha culture type-site (2400–2000 BCE earliest agriculture in Malwa) and successive Kayatha → Ahar → Malwa → Early Historic sequence on Malwa plateau, discovered…
🇹🇷 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.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic 3000–1500 BCE · Ahar-Banas Ahar ware — type-site defining culture
Ahar Dhulkot Mound — eponymous Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic type-site (3000–1500 BCE) on Ahar River at Udaipur's eastern edge, excavated 1961–62 by H.D. Sankalia (Deccan College) and R.C. Agrawal.
🇮🇷 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).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Malwa 1700 BCE → Jorwe 1400–1000 BCE → Early Historic 600 BCE–200 CE · Malwa–Jorwe Chalcolithic (Narmada) → Satavahana
Type Narmada Chalcolithic village (1800–1000 BCE) on Narmada gorge opposite Maheshwar — 30 houses per phase, 7 m deposit.
🇮🇶 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).
