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CategoriesGeoglyphs
Lines, figures and shapes drawn into the land at a scale meant for the sky.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate Period, Paracas to Nazca culture · Paracas / Nazca
Over 300 geometric and figurative geoglyphs etched by removing dark desert pavement to reveal light subsoil across 450 km² of arid Pampas, including 1.8 km hummingbird, monkey, spider, and trapezoids…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Pre-Columbian 1–1500 CE · Acre / Xinguano tradition
Hundreds of large ditched enclosures (squares, circles, U-shapes) revealed since 1977 by deforestation, built by pre-Columbian Amazonian cultures using forest clearance, dated 1–1500 CE, associated…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Disputed: either Adena 320 BCE–200 CE or Fort Ancient 1070–1200 CE (latest C14 favors Fort Ancient 1120 CE) · Adena culture or Fort Ancient culture
Quarter-mile (411 m) effigy mound in shape of serpent with oval head swallowing an egg, 3 ft high, coiled tail atop meteor-crater plateau above Ohio Brush Creek, largest surviving effigy mound in…
🇫🇷 France · Geoglyph
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic geoglyph at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇫🇷 France · Geoglyph
Iron Age · Iron Age
Iron Age geoglyph at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Geoglyph
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic geoglyph at Central Anatolia.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Geoglyph
Harappan · Harappan
Harappan geoglyph at Central Anatolia.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Geoglyph
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon geoglyph at Central Anatolia.
🇮🇳 India · Geoglyph
Classical · Classical
Classical geoglyph at Haryana.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Classical · Classical
Classical geoglyph at Huanuco.
🇮🇳 India · Geoglyph
Harappan · Harappan
Harappan geoglyph at Haryana.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art
Iron Age to Historic (500 BCE–19th c.) · Nok-derived / Bauchi hunters
Granite cliff with 300 inscriptions and cattle engravings (hunters' oath site).
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Hopewell Middle Woodland 100–400 CE · Hopewell tradition
Circle-octagon pair 320 m circle, UNESCO 2023.
🇺🇸 United States · Megalith
Late Prehistoric 1200–1700 CE · Plains Indians
24 m medicine wheel 28 spokes, solstice alignments.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Marksville 0–400 CE · Marksville culture
Semicircular enclosure 530 m wall, Marksville Southern Hopewell 0–400 CE.
