Toumba

Toumba (Greek: Τούμπα) describes mounds created by settlements in northern Greece during the Bronze Age (c. 3000–1100 BC) and early Iron Age (c. 1100–700 BC). Initially mistaken for grave mounds, excavations since the early 1900s revealed these are stratified deposits formed when timber-framed mudbrick houses collapsed and were rebuilt on the same spot century after century [1]. These mound sites correspond to the Tell settlements of the Near East [1].