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Mounds, henges, enclosures and effigies built from earth.
🇨🇳 China · Earthwork
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Outer Xi an Platform Central — Xi an (56-42) at Xi an, China is a Iron Age (regional) earthwork of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (7200–6200 BCE) · PPNB Black Desert hunters
West hamada piedmont 6 km west of Jabal Wisad inselberg (690 m) on flat basalt pavement with scattered chert.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Earthwork
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Old Potosí Village Inner — Potosí (55-20) at Potosí, Bolivia is a Medieval (regional) earthwork of the Medieval tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for village and associated settlement.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B–C (7000–5800 BCE) · Late PPNB/PPNC
Wadi throat where Wadi Wisad narrows to 45 m between basalt bluffs 8 km southwest of plateau (675 m).
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Royal Cuzco Citadel South — Cuzco (55-09) at Cuzco, Peru is a Bronze Age (regional) geoglyph of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Earthwork
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Central Giza Citadel Outer — Giza (56-48) at Giza, Egypt is a Bronze Age (regional) earthwork of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 800 CE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇨🇳 China · Earthwork
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Royal Xi an Settlement A — Xi an (56-38) at Xi an, China is a Iron Age (regional) earthwork of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 400 BCE for settlement and associated settlement.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Preclassic to Late Classic (400 BCE–900 CE) · Maya (Petén lowland)
Massive Classic Maya city 16 km NE of San Bartolo (400 BCE–900 CE) with 5 km² settlement and 35 m-high Lost World pyramid (12H3, 50x20 m base, 26 m high, 5 phases).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Earthwork
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Eastern Meroe Village North — Meroe (56-15) at Meroe, Sudan is a Iron Age (regional) earthwork of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 800 CE for village and associated settlement.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Geoglyph
Classical (regional) · Classical
Great Potosí Mound East — Potosí (55-40) at Potosí, Bolivia is a Classical (regional) geoglyph of the Classical tradition, built c. 800 BCE for mound and associated settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Northern Lima Village Outer — Lima (56-47) at Lima, Peru is a Medieval (regional) earthwork of the Medieval tradition, built c. 800 BCE for village and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Earthwork
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Outer Meroe Temple B — Meroe (56-23) at Meroe, Sudan is a Bronze Age (regional) earthwork of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for temple and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Earthwork
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Western Giza Fortress I — Giza (56-32) at Giza, Egypt is a Neolithic (regional) earthwork of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 400 BCE for fortress and associated settlement.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland
Serpent Mound — Head Coil North Bend (Adams County) in Ohio, Adams County, Serpent Mound, United States is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) …
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland; Hopewell
Cowan Creek — South Causeway Secondary (Ohio) in Ohio, Clinton County, Cowan Creek, United States is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) earthw…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland; Hopewell
Newark Octagon — North Avenue Causeway (Licking County) in Ohio, Licking County, Newark, United States is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) e…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland
Poverty Point — Ridge 3 Terrace West (Jackson Parish) in Louisiana, West Carroll Parish, Poverty Point, United States is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000…
🇨🇦 Canada · Archaeological wonder
Archaic to Protohistoric 3600 BCE–1850 CE (use from 5700 years BP) · Plains Indigenous (Blackfoot / Niitsitapi – Peigan, Kainai, Siksika; earlier Besant, Avonlea)
UNESCO World Heritage buffalo jump (1981) used continuously 5,700 years: 300 m cliff with 10 m drop onto bone bed 11 m deep of bison skeletons, drive lanes marked by 240 cairns stretching 20 km to…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Bronze Age to Iron Age (~1500–300 BCE; causeway 1350–1150 BCE) · British Bronze Age (Deverel-Rimbury to Post-Deverel-Rimbury)
A 1-km line of 60,000 oak posts forming a causeway and platform across Flag Fen where Francis Pryor excavated systematic votive deposits: over 300 metalwork items deliberately broken (swords bent,…
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate (200 BCE–600 CE) · Huarpa
Central meseta (3,280 m) bisecting Chaviña Pampa between previously documented north ridge and south sector.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Early Holocene Neolithic (~7500–3500 BCE) · Nubian Neolithic pastoralist (El Nabta culture)
Beside a fossil playa that filled during the African Humid Period, nomads erected a 5-m mini-Stonehenge of quartzite slabs and radial lines pointing to summer solstice sunrise and to Sirius/Arcturus.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Earthwork
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Earthworks of Pediment in Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) earthwork attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Late Prehistoric Oneota (Blood Run phase 1500–1700 CE) · Oneota (ancestors Dakota-Ioway)
Largest Oneota town 1500–1700: 76 mounds and boulder enclosure, 6,000 residents on Big Sioux.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Late Neolithic (~5500–3500 BCE) · Neolithic Arabian pastoralist
More than 1,600 elongated rectangular courtyard monuments – Arabic mustatil – stitched across 200,000 km² of Saudi desert between the Nefud and Red Sea, rendered visible only by satellite.
