🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Turner Group Earthworks
Middle Woodland Hopewell 100–400 CE · Hopewell tradition (Turner phase)
Hopewell enclosure-mound group source of copper effigies and mica tombs on Little Miami terrace.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Pietrele 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.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Buhen Fortress — Great Walled Town
Old Kingdom precursors; Middle Kingdom–New Kingdom · Ancient Egyptian
Southernmost bastion of Egyptian 12th Dynasty canal road, first founded as Old Kingdom copper smelting settlement (2500 BCE) then rebuilt by Senusret I and massively expanded by Senusret III as…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Teleilat Ghassul
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.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Balathal Chalcolithic Mound
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.
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Khvalynsk Cemetery (Khvalynsk I-II)
Eneolithic Chalcolithic; Khvalynsk pre-Yamnaya · Khvalynsk culture (Volga Eneolithic) → Repin → Yamnaya
Volga Eneolithic type cemetery (200 graves, 4700–3900 BCE) — Khvalynsk culture copper maces, ochre burials and earliest steppe horse sacrifice, pre-Yamnaya origin.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Yunatsite Tell — Northern Terrace Variant
Late Chalcolithic · Karanovo VI / Gumelnița
Northern terrace of Yunatsite tell (c. 5000–4100 BCE), 12 m high mound with Chalcolithic destruction layers, copper metallurgy and fortification, extension of main tell showing violent end c.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chandoli
Deccan Jorwe Chalcolithic 1400–1000 BCE → Megalithic 700 BCE–100 CE · Jorwe (Deccan Early Farming) → Megalithic–Vidarbha
Largest Jorwe urn cemetery (1400–1000 BCE) in Sangli — 42 burials with amputated legs and copper bangles under houses.