Places tagged early

🇹🇷 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.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Early Bronze Age I–II (c.3000–2300 BCE) · Early Bronze Lycian (Elmalı-Karataş) → Southwest Anatolian

Lycia's largest EB village with 180 pithos jar cemetery (3000 BCE) at Elmalı.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Early Neolithic (c.8000–7100 BCE; Bestansur horizon) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic B → Pottery Neolithic Shahrizor

Shahrizor PPNB town (8000–7100 BCE) with courtyard houses and plaster floors SE of Sulaymaniyah.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Early Bronze to Iron Age (c.2800–500 BCE) · EB coastal → Middle Bronze Canaanite → Late Bronze Ugaritic → Iron

Secondary coastal tell (2800–500 BCE) on Jableh-Baniyas corridor south of Sianu.

🇮🇷 Iran · Tell

Early Neolithic (c.7500–6000 BCE; Ali Kosh sequence 7500–6000 BCE) · Bus Mordeh → Ali Kosh → Mohammed Jaffar (Deh Luran)

Deh Luran Neolithic eponym (7500–6000 BCE) defining Iran's Bus Mordeh–Ali Kosh sequence.

🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell

Early Bronze to Iron Age (c.3000–600 BCE) · EB Bekaa → Middle Bronze → Iron

Western Bekaa foothill agrarian mound (3000–600 BCE) with Iron deep silos near Zahle.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Early Bronze to Middle Bronze (c.3000–1500 BCE) · EB Euphrates urban → Middle Bronze Amorite

Euphrates terrace walled city (3000–1500 BCE) in Hadidi bend, now under Lake Assad.

🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex

Initial Period 2500–500 BCE · Early coastal Formative

Deer-net mural 2000 BCE, oldest in Americas.

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