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89 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic 3000–1500 BCE (Period I–III) · Ahar-Banas / Mewar Chalcolithic
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas culture cluster (3000–1500 BCE) along Ahar and Banas rivers around Udaipur, Rajasthan, copper-working villages exploiting Aravalli Khetri copper belt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (~4000–3000 BCE) · Sinai pastoralist (Nawamis culture, Timnian)
Fields of roughly 100 dry-stone beehive tombs 2–5 m diameter on the high Sinai plateau between Ein Khudra and Wadi Watir, each a corbelled cairn with single entrance facing west.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
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
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.
🇮🇷 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.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Chalcolithic · Valencina Copper Age / Los Millares horizon
Seville Chalcolithic tholos with 40 m corridor and sun-motif slabs, part of 400 ha Valencina copper town.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Early to Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic (Starčevo→Vinča) · Vinča culture (Old Europe)
Type-site of the Vinča culture (5700–4500 BCE), the most advanced Neolithic-Copper Age tell in Southeast Europe: 9 m cultural layer, 13 habitation horizons, figurines (Lady of Vinča), proto-writing…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I (3500 – 3000 BCE) · Proto-urban pastoralist Jawa (Jordanian black desert)
West pool of world's earliest 3500 BCE basalt dam network 80 m serving 3,000 desert inhabitants.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Cucuteni A (c.4500–4000 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia (Cucuteni A)
Type site for Cucuteni A excavated by Vl. Dumitrescu 1937–38, a 2 ha fortified village on a promontory with ditch and palisade enclosing ca.30–40 burned houses.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Buried city
Late Chalcolithic / Copper Age · Varna culture (Karanovo VI/Gumelnița)
Chalcolithic cemetery (4600–4200 BCE) with world's oldest worked gold hoard — 3,000 gold objects, 6.5 kg, in Grave 43 (status male with gold penis sheath) and 294 other graves, demonstrating earliest…
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Chalcolithic to Medieval (4000 BCE – 1400 CE) · Kura-Araxes to medieval Armenian
South annex with Chalcolithic finger flutings and secondary grape press pit.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortified city
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
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 · Tell
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 · 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.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Chalcolithic to Islamic (c.5000 BCE–1500 CE; Bronze citadel LBA) · Chalcolithic → Bronze (Shahrizor) → Iron → Achaemenid → Islamic
Shahrizor 40 ha citadel (5000 BCE–1500 CE) with Bronze tablets of Idu dynasty near Halabja.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (c.5000–2500 BCE; Iblis I–VI) · Yahya-related Chalcolithic → Early Bronze Kerman
Kerman Chalcolithic copper centre (5000 BCE) with earliest slag/crucibles south of Kerman.
