🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork
Marajoara Mounds (Teso dos Bichos)
Marajoara Phase (Polychrome Tradition) · Marajoara (Arauan-derived Amazonian Polychrome)
Marajoara chiefdom mounds (800–1400 CE)—40-m tesos and funerary urn fields on Amazon's delta island.
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78 places in the atlas, 6 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork
Marajoara Phase (Polychrome Tradition) · Marajoara (Arauan-derived Amazonian Polychrome)
Marajoara chiefdom mounds (800–1400 CE)—40-m tesos and funerary urn fields on Amazon's delta island.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Xinguano late 1100–1600 CE · Xinguano (ancestral Kuikuro)
Southern reservoir satellite K17 of Kuhikugu — 140 m reservoir and plazas at Seki Lake south, Xingu hydraulic answer to Upano.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Late Pre-Columbian (800–1600 CE) · Upper Xingu / ancestral Kuikuro Arawak
Eastern plaza K10 of Kuhikugu cluster on Seki East — 12 ha plaza with ditch and 1.2 km causeway.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Buried city
Marajoara Phase (800–1400 CE) Amazonian Polychrome · Marajoara / Aruã / Ananatuba
Amazon mouth tesos 12 m high with 3 km causeways at +1 m (800–1400 CE) — continental city 40,000 vs chiefdom 10,000 debated.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Pre-Columbian Xinguano (800 – 1600 CE) · Xinguano (Arawak-Karib)
Kuhikugu South in Mato Grosso, Brazil is a Pre-Columbian Xinguano (800 – 1600 CE) ancient city attributed to Xinguano (Arawak-Karib) culture.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Xinguano 800–1600 CE (late pre-Columbian Amazon) · Xinguano (Arawak, ancestral Kuikuro)
Eastern Kuhikugu causeway-plaza K15 — 220 m plaza with 20 m causeways linking to fish weir, 2.8 km east of X11.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Thonis Temple Pylon South in Sambaqui Coast, Brazil is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Bronze Age culture.
