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CategoriesGeoglyphs
Lines, figures and shapes drawn into the land at a scale meant for the sky.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Geoglyph
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.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
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.
🇫🇷 France · Geoglyph
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic geoglyph at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Geoglyph
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic 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.
🇺🇸 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…
🇨🇦 Canada · Geoglyph
Battalion Park is a geoglyph site in southwest Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is on Signal Hill, overlooking the Tsuu T'ina Nation (formerly Sarcee Nation), as well as lands formerly known as Camp…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Formative to Late Intermediate (800 BCE–1400 CE) · Andean Formative
Acre — Geoglyph Ancillary Square Ramal 4 (Brazil) in Acre, Rio Branco, Acre Geoglyph Ramal4, Brazil is a Formative to Late Intermediate (800 BCE–1400 CE) g…
🇱🇾 Libya · Geoglyph
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Forge Geoglyph in Fezzan, Libya is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Geoglyph
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Henge Gallery Geoglyph in Hadramawt, Yemen is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Geoglyph
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Down-Henge Geoglyph in Thessaly, Greece is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Geoglyph
Craigmillar (from Gaelic Creag a' Mhaol Àird, "rock of the bare summit") is an area of Edinburgh, Scotland, about 3 miles (4.8 km) south east of the city centre, with Duddingston to the north and…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Geoglyph
The Battle of Britain Memorial is a monument to aircrew who flew in the Battle of Britain. It is sited on the White Cliffs at Capel-le-Ferne, near Folkestone, on the coast of Kent.
