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CategoriesGeoglyphs
Lines, figures and shapes drawn into the land at a scale meant for the sky.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate Cabuza-San Miguel · Arica (Cabuza, Maytas-Chiribaya)
45+ Lluta Valley terrace geoglyphs (700-1300 CE) facing valley floor, bridging Azapa and Tarapaca traditions.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Earthwork
Late Intermediate, Casarabe culture · Casarabe (Moxos) savanna farmers
1,000 km of causeways + 147 forest-island cities (500–1400 CE) in seasonally flooded Beni savanna.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Archaeological wonder
Late Neolithic to medieval (1800 BCE–11th c CE) · Tichitt Culture / Sanhaja pastoralists
400 km intermediate cuesta with Neolithic hamlets, karkur tumuli and copper axes bridging Tichitt–Adrar Neolithic diffusion corridor.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate · Wari / Chuquibamba
18 geometric and zoomorphic cleared geoglyphs (800–1200 CE) on La Caldera pampa south of Toro Muerto.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate (Huarpa–Early Wari) · Huarpa / Rancha–Huarpa transition
18+ high-puna (3,200 m) trapezoids and zoomorphs (200 BCE–600 CE) linking Nazca to Wari highlands.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Archaic to Formative (Tulán–Puripica) · Atacama caravan (Tulán, Puripica, early Atacameño)
20 high-salar ignimbrite geoglyphs (1200 BCE–1000 CE) at 4,316 m above Salar de Tara cathedrals.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I (Timnian to EB I) · Timnian–Ghassulian to EB I plateau pastoralists
28 Wadi al-Hasa plateau kites (4500–3000 BCE) with 15 meadow lures — Edom rim hunting province.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative Alto Ramírez to San Miguel · Alto Ramírez–Tiwanaku caravan
Lluta south-bank hillside geoglyphs: 16 rayed anthropomorphs opposite classic Alto Ramírez terrace.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Tarapacá–Inca) · Tarapacá / Inca
12 Inca-period cleared geoglyphs (1400–1500 CE) along Pica–Tamarugal prehispanic trail.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Neolithic (Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) · Late PPNB steppe-hunting tradition
Eastern rim kite chain of the Jordanian Harrat basalt plain (880 m, 31°02′21″N 37°30′00″E) where basalt peneplain meets limestone Hamad: 18 desert kites arrayed along 17 km N-S per Jibal…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (PPNB-related) · Azraq oasis Neolithic foragers
Kite field on the basalt deflation rim of Qa al-Azraq sebkha (520 m, 31.83°N 36.82°E), the lowest point of the 12,700 km² Azraq Basin shared with Syria (94% in Jordan) and Saudi.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate (Arica / Tarapacá) · Tarapacá / Arica caravan tradition
Westernmost Tarapacá geoglyph cluster on the southern flank of Quebrada Tiliviche (1,070 m), 2 km west of the Pan-American bridge. Camiña commune.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Late Formative to Early Intermediate (Salinar–Recuay) · Salinar / Recuay (Pashash)
40+ Salinar–Recuay cleared-pavement geoglyphs (500 BCE–400 CE) on Santa Valley quebrada fans.
🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Late Prehistoric (Patayan) · Yuman (Mojave/Quechan)
9-m Fisherman intaglio (900–1200 CE) on Plomosa piedmont — spearman with fish and sun.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Early Formative Alto Ramírez I–II · Alto Ramírez upper-valley
Upper Azapa precordillera: 18 steep-slope figures at 980 m marking valley bottleneck to highlands.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Horizon to Early Intermediate (Paracas-Nazca transition) · Huarato / Gramalote coastal
Fog-oasis (lomas) fringe geoglyphs on Chala Pampa (180 m) 6 km inland from Pacific, marking guanaco trap corridors between lomas loma fog-meadows and desert.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze (Kelteminar-Bozashy) · Ustyurt steppe Kelteminar
Central Asian steppe-kite province on the Ustyurt chalk plateau (160 m, 44°12′N 54°12′E) in the 40 m deep Karynzharyk karst depression (Ustyurt Biosphere).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic · Hisma Neolithic pastoralists
21 Late Neolithic sandstone kites (6000–4500 BCE) against Wadi Rum inselbergs — southernmost Levantine corridor.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate Wari-Chuquibamba · Wari-influenced Majes valley
35+ broad trapezoidal geoglyphs (600-900 CE) on Pampa de Majes with 600-m highways converging on cairn huacas.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Geoglyph
Neolithic to Early Bronze (Aratashen-Shulaveri to Kura-Araxes) · Armenian Highland Neolithic
Highest (3,200 m, 40°30′N 44°20′E) kite field in the Palearctic on the alpine plateau of Mount Aragats (4,090 m volcano).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · PPN pastoralists
58-kite chain (8000–5500 BCE) along Harrat al-Sham — cross-border spine of kite province.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (El-Maghara-related) · Sinai Neolithic coastal hunters
First documented North Sinai kites (45 m asl, 31°01′N 33°09′E) on Bardawil lagoon sabkha plain south of Bir al-Abd, bridging Sinai to Negev corridor.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic · Central Najd Neolithic pastoralists
29 Najd mustatil platforms (4900–4200 BCE) — easternmost Saudi rectangular ritual field.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate to Middle Horizon (Nazca-Caravelí / Huari) · Nazca-Caravelí desert pampa tradition
Broad, crimson deflation plain (890 m, 15°52′11″S 74°05′23″W per Maplandia 15.8697S 74.0897W) north of the Atico drainage, bearing 30+ linear geoglyphs: 90-310 m cleared lines, 45 m trapezoid, and…
