🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
La Blanca
Maya Late Classic 450–850 CE · Maya (Mopán / southeastern Petén)
100-m palace Acropolis with throne rooms, 450–850 CE.
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CategoriesMegaliths
Stone circles, dolmens, menhirs and passage tombs raised without metal tools.
🇳🇴 Norway · Megalith
Neolithic–Iron Age (4000 BCE–600 CE) · Nordic TRB to Iron Age — Veien cultural landscape
Major cultural landscape on the Ringerike glacial ridge near Hønefoss, with over 100 monuments from Neolithic to Iron Age.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Maya Late Classic 450–850 CE · Maya (Mopán / southeastern Petén)
100-m palace Acropolis with throne rooms, 450–850 CE.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Trypillia BI–BII (c.4100–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia (Trypillia BI)
One of the classic Trypillia BI mega-sites near Lehedzyne (Legedzine), 90 ha with ~1100+ houses identified by magnetometry, excavated and famously reconstructed as a full-scale burning experiment in…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
The Dolmen-Chapel of São Brissos (Portuguese: Anta-Capela de São Brissos) is a small chapel located in the parish of Santiago do Escoural in the municipality of Montemor-o-Novo in Portugal.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early–Middle Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Stalled cairn on Rousay with tripartite chamber, 29 burials, c.3500 BCE.
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Megalith
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Dolmen de Cave in Magway Region, Myanmar is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) megalithic attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Maeshowe-type hilltop cairn on Eday with four side cells, c.3200 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Cumbria / Langdale axe network
Late Neolithic flattened circle of 38 stones near Keswick with rectangular eastern enclosure and fells panorama.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Woodland–Archaic 1000 BCE–1000 CE · Woodland peoples
30-m quartz hawk effigy on Oconee River, paired with Rock Eagle.
🇦🇺 Australia · Archaeological wonder
Gunditjmara continuous 6,600–6,000 BCE to present (dated 6,700 BP Muldoon trap) · Gunditjmara Aboriginal Australian
Gunditjmara aquaculture over 6,600 years on Budj Bim basalt lava flow (30,000-year-old volcano) with 750 m of stone channels, weirs and eel traps (kooyang) manipulating Lake Condah wetlands.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Late Archaic–Poverty Point ca. 1700–1500 BCE · Poverty Point culture (Jaketown phase)
8-mound Poverty Point–related center, 1700–1500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age · Bronze Age Food Vessel
Gravel-terrace cemetery cairn NW of Kilmartin village with seven Bronze Age cists.
🇦🇺 Australia · Earthwork
Aboriginal estimated 40,000 BP to historical (continuous); documented >3,000 years · Ngemba / Murrawarri / Ualkay Aboriginal
Estimated 40,000-year-old stone weir complex on Barwon River comprising four traps across 500 m with crescent stone walls 2.5 m high guiding fish into pens, attributed to ancestral creation being…
🇫🇷 France · Temple complex
Early Marae 1000–1500 CE classical Polynesian (peak 1350–1773) · Polynesian / Ra'iātean (Ma'ohi)
Polynesia's most sacred marae center (1000–1773 CE) on 31 ha lagoon peninsula tip Taputapuatea, with 60×45 m marae Taputapuatea (stone national marae) and 16 other marae including Hauviri and Opoa,…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Megalith
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Dolmen de Glen Spur in Petén, Guatemala is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Roman culture.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Iron Age to Viking Age · Late Germanic Iron Age / Viking Age Svear
Sweden's largest burial mound — 14 m high with five stone ships and runestone, Iron Age to Viking royal cemetery.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Late Iron Age (with Neolithic antecedent landscape) · Late Iron Age Bohuslän
41 m stone ship of 49 granite blocks near Strömstad, one of Scandinavia's largest, among 26 graves.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Atlantic Early Neolithic / Cerny
Necropolis of six tumuli A-F spanning 4800-3000 BCE, including oldest megalithic building in western France.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Woodland Weeden Island 200–800 CE · Weeden Island (Swift Creek)
14 m platform mound, largest Woodland mound in Florida, 200–800 CE.
🇯🇪 Jersey · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Jersey Gallery Grave
Gallery grave near Gorey guardhouse (1689), St Martin, Jersey, 6 m gallery, coastal, c.3500 BCE.
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Neolithic to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · South Indian Neolithic–Megalithic transition
Brahmagiri — Chitradurga Ash Mound and Megalith in Karnataka, India is a Neolithic to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) megalithic attributed to South Indian Neolithic–Megalithic transition.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Swift Creek–Weeden Island 350–750 CE · Swift Creek – Weeden Island
Woodland Mound A 17 m, Swift Creek 350–750 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell–Adena 250 BCE–200 CE · Hopewell tradition (Adena antecedent)
Hopewell circular enclosure and Great Mound, 250 BCE–200 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Megalith
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Medieval
Lepsius Mound Outlier in Mississippi Valley, United States is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Medieval culture.
