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CategoriesGeoglyphs
Lines, figures and shapes drawn into the land at a scale meant for the sky.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Archaic to Formative (Tarapacá) · Alta Ramírez–Tarapacá caravan
South-fan geoglyphs at Salar de Huasco: 18 camelid/avenue figures on altiplano pavement at 3,815 m.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Late Pre-Columbian (200 BCE – 900 CE) · Acre (Beni) geoglyph builders
Western Acre Capixaba 300 m circle ditch 3 m deep with embankment and 120 m square 2 m high under pasture — causeway 400 m links.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Neolithic to Bronze Age · Arabian Neolithic pastoralists
15,000 stone structures on black lava—gates, kites and pendants of Neolithic Arabia (7000–5000 BCE).
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate (Topará / Early Nazca) · Paracas-Topará / Early Nazca
30+ trapezoid and anthropomorph lines (200 BCE–300 CE) on inland Pisco River pampas.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative (800 BCE–800 CE) · Formative–Classic geoglyph
Atacama Giant Geoglyph Cerro Unitas Eastern Ridge in Tarapacá, Cerro Unitas, Chile is a Formative (800 BCE–800 CE) geoglyph attributed to Formative–Classic geoglyph.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze I (Timnian–Beersheva) · Sinai–Negev Late Neolithic (Timnian, Ghassulian)
20 Sinai gateway kites (arms 60–140 m) funneling Ibex through Kossaima Pass — navamis-associated.
🇨🇱 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.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate (Cabuza-Maytas-Chiribaya / Arica) · Arica cultural complex
Hill figures and extensive pre-Hispanic village on Cerro Sombrero (Hat Hill) in mid-Azapa Valley, 12 km inland from Arica.
🇨🇱 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
Middle to Late Intermediate (Maitas–Gentilar) · Azapa valley folk (Maitas–Gentilar)
Mid-Azapa hillside: 28 figures at km 14 including 32-m feathered anthropomorphs above olive valley.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Formative to Tiwanaku (Alto Ramírez III) · Alto Ramírez–Pukara caravan
Summit pampa geoglyphs 5 km east of Lluta: 22 horizontal geometric avenues on drainage divide.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate Gentilar · Camarones–Conanoxa Gentilar
Conanoxa south terrace: 14 inverted additive ring geoglyphs mirroring north-bank Camarones.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Neolithic (PPNB to Late Neolithic) · Southern Jordan Neolithic
Southernmost Jordanian kite field on the Karak limestone plateau (620 m, 31°03′N 35°45′E) above Wadi al-Hasa gorge (tributary of Mujib).
🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Late Prehistoric (Patayan) · Yuman (Mojave/Quechan)
9-m Fisherman intaglio (900–1200 CE) on Plomosa piedmont — spearman with fish and sun.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Initial Period to Late Intermediate (Casma-Sechín to Chimú) · Casma-Sechín / Paramonga / Chimú
Inter-valley pampa (380 m) between Río Pativilca and Río Fortaleza, 4 km east of Paramonga fortress, with 26 anthropogenic lines and trapezoids on pale alluvial terrace.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (Arabian Neolithic) · Central Arabian Late Neolithic
Easternmost mustatil province (620 m, 25°39′N 46°39′E) on Thumamah limestone plateau 80 km NE of Riyadh, pushing mustatil distribution 400 km east of Dawadmi core.
🇵🇪 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.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Early Holocene moist phase (Neolithic) · Hijaz Neolithic lava-field hunters
Volcanic-field kites (1,100 m, 27°24′N 37°16′E) of the Harrat ar-Rahah-'Uwayrid cluster (Global Volcanism Program 27.408N 37.279E, 1700 m cluster).
🇯🇴 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.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Pre-Inca Atacama (500 – 1450 CE) · Atacameño / Tarapacá
Pintados Geoglyphs in Tarapacá, Chile is a Pre-Inca Atacama (500 – 1450 CE) geoglyph attributed to Atacameño / Tarapacá culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Timnian / Desert Chalcolithic
Negev Highlands kite cluster (480 m, 30°51′N 34°51′E) on makhtesh (crater) rim plateaux between Ramon (30°35′N 34°50′E) and Har Harif, extending the Israeli Negev kite province beyond the three known…
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate (Atacama Tarapacá) · Atacameño (Likan Antai) caravan
Salar del Sur north pampa: 24 geometric avenues on Antofagasta deflation plain toward Tulán.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative (800 BCE–600 CE) · Tarapacá / Alto Ramírez
Horst-block ridge (3,820 m) 2.2 km northwest of Salar de Huasco on uplifted fault block with shattered ignimbrite and quartzite pavement.
