Adena conical mound (19.5 ft/6 m high, 95 ft/29 m diameter) preserved as Story Mound State Memorial, encircled by suburban Chillicothe but intact with original ditch.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Earthwork

Yamna Kurgan Circle South

Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Medieval

Yamna Kurgan Circle South in Steppe, Kazakhstan is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Medieval culture.

🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork

Chan Chan Citadel West — Andean Highlands (Cusco)

Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval

Chan Chan Citadel West in Andean Highlands, Peru is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Medieval culture.

🇸🇪 Sweden · Hillfort

Geoglyph Hill Figure North — Lapland (Jokkmokk)

Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age

Geoglyph Hill Figure North in Lapland, Sweden is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) hillfort attributed to Iron Age culture.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Earthwork

Naqa Lion Temple Outlier

Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age

Naqa Lion Temple Outlier in Rift Valley, Kenya is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age culture.

🇸🇩 Sudan · Earthwork

Small Step Pyramid East — Meroe (Meroe)

Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval

Small Step Pyramid East in Meroe, Sudan is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Medieval culture.

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Geoglyph

Steppe Kite Desert Gate East — Gobi (Ulaanbaatar)

Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age

Steppe Kite Desert Gate East in Gobi, Mongolia is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Iron Age culture.

🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork

Small Step Pyramid East — Moche Valley (Trujillo)

Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age

Small Step Pyramid East in Moche Valley, Peru is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Bronze Age culture.

🇳🇬 Nigeria · Earthwork

Paramonga Fortress Pyramid

Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age

Paramonga Fortress Pyramid in Nubia, Nigeria is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Bronze Age culture.

🇸🇪 Sweden · Earthwork

Harrah Kite Chain South — Lapland (Jokkmokk)

Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age

Harrah Kite Chain South in Lapland, Sweden is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Foster Mounds

Coles Creek 700–1200 CE to Plaquemine 1200–1500 CE · Coles Creek–Plaquemine (Troyville to Mississippian transition Louisiana)

Five-mound complex on Little River near Harrisonburg: largest flat-topped Mound A 8 m high with causeway to plaza, four smaller mounds enclosing 1.5 ha plaza.

🇸🇩 Sudan · Earthwork

Tepe Sialk Platform A — Meroe (Meroe)

Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age

Tepe Sialk Platform A in Meroe, Sudan is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Alligator Mound

Late Woodland / Fort Ancient 800–1200 CE · Fort Ancient (Late Woodland)

Effigy mound 205 ft/62 m long, 4–6 ft high, head oriented SW tail NE, depicting an opossum/underwater panther effigy on bluff south of Granville. Listed NRHP 1971.

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Troyville Earthworks

Woodland Troyville culture 400–700 CE peak (with Baytown 100 BCE–400 CE foundations) · Baytown / Troyville-Coles Creek (Woodland to early Mississippian)

Nine-mound complex at Jonesville where 21st Louisiana's tallest pre-Columbian mound (Great Mound, 82 ft) stood until levee leveling. Baytown-Troyville-Coles Creek sequence with plaza and embankment.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort

Maiden Castle

Iron Age (800 BCE–43 CE), over Neolithic causewayed enclosure · Durotriges (British Iron Age)

Massive Iron Age hillfort enclosing 47 acres on a chalk ridge south of Dorchester, developed from a Neolithic causewayed enclosure (c. 3350 BCE) into a multivallate fort with complex entrances by c.

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Bynum Mounds

Middle Woodland Miller culture Hopewell horizon 100 BCE–100 CE · Miller (Hopewell)

Six mounds at Natchez Trace Milepost 232.4 including large flat-topped Mound A and conical burial Mound B (10 ft high) with crematory basin and greenstone artifacts.

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Plum Bayou Mounds

Late Woodland Plum Bayou 650–1050 CE (Baytown-Coles Creek to Mississippian transition) · Plum Bayou (Baytown/Coles Creek, Late Woodland Arkansas)

Premier Late Woodland platform mound center: 18 mounds (tallest Mound A 12 m) enclosing 16 ha plaza with embankment ditch and astronomical causeway aligned to 1-degree solar solstice.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Earthwork

Konso Cultural Landscape – Terraces & Waka Pillars

Konso · Konso people

UNESCO 2011 masterpiece of intensive hillside drystone terraces 60 km2 by Konso since 17th c (tradition 400 yr), stonewalled towns (paletas) with generation pa poles and waka anthropomorphic grave…

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort

Cissbury Ring

Neolithic to Iron Age (4000 BCE–400 BCE) · Neolithic miners / Iron Age

Cissbury Ring in West Sussex, South Downs, United Kingdom is a Neolithic to Iron Age (4000 BCE–400 BCE) hillfort attributed to Neolithic miners / Iron Age culture.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork

Maumbury Rings

Late Neolithic to Roman (2500 BCE–140 CE) · Grooved Ware / Roman

Maumbury Rings in Dorset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic to Roman (2500 BCE–140 CE) earthwork attributed to Grooved Ware / Roman culture.

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