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  1. Tell (archaeology) - Wikipedia

    • In archaeology, a tell (from Arabic: تَلّ, tall, 'mound' or 'small hill') is an artificial topographical feature, a mound consisting of the accumulated and stratified debris of a succession of consecutive settlements at the same site, the refuse of generations of people who built and inhabited them and natural sediment. Tells are most commonly associated with the ancient … See more

    Etymology

    The word tell is first attested in English in an 1840 report in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. It … See more

    Formation

    A tell can form only if natural and man-made material accumulates faster than it is removed by erosion and human-caused truncation, which explains the limited geographical area they occur in.
    Tells are fo… See more

    Occurrence

    It is thought that the earliest examples of tells are in the Jordan Valley, such as at the 10-meter-high mound, dating back to the proto-Neolithic period, at Jericho in the West Bank. More than 5,000 tells have been detected in … See more

    Further reading

    Lloyd, Seton (1963). Mounds of the Near East. Edinburgh University Press – via Internet Archive.
    • Small, David B. (2019). The Ancient Greeks: Social Structure and Evolution. Cambridge University Press. ISBNSee more

    External links

    • Media related to Tell (archaeology) at Wikimedia Commons See more

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