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372 places in the atlas, 32 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Mesa Verde — Cliff Palace North Kiva Ancillary in Colorado, Montezuma County, Mesa Verde, United States is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) anci…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Fort Ancient 1000–1750 CE, Mississippian-influenced Late Prehistoric · Fort Ancient (Central Algonquian, Fort Ancient tradition)
Reconstructed Fort Ancient circular village (3 acres) on Great Miami River terrace at Dayton: central plaza 42 m diameter ringed by post-mold houses, stockade with bastions, and reconstructed cedar…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Keet Seel Cliff Dwelling — buried ancestral tell/village at Arizona.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Colonial to Classic (750–1450 CE; peak 1350 CE) · Hohokam (Gila–Casa Grande community, Ancestral O'odham)
Classic Hohokam Gila village 1350 CE — 60 ha compounds around Great House.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo I-II-III; Chuskum-Chacoan · Chacoan × Chuskan frontier (Chuska timber route)
Mesa-top wedge great house on West Mesa promontory (900–1125 CE) controlling west gap and Chuska roads — crescent plan with great kiva and hinterland pictograph.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Colonial to Classic (950–1350 CE; peak 950–1200 CE) · Hohokam (Tucson Basin)
Hohokam platform precursor 950 CE — 600 bedrock mortars & ballcourt (Bayman).
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Betatakin Cliff Dwelling — buried ancestral tell/village at Arizona.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Pueblo III 1190–1280 CE (Ancestral Puebloan florescence) · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi, Pueblo III)
Largest cliff dwelling in North America: 150 rooms, 23 kivas, 128–150 inhabitants in alcove 88 m deep, 27 m high below mesa top, with coursed sandstone masonry, tower structures and painted plaster,…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Homolovi II Pueblo — buried ancestral tell/village at Arizona.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Kin Biniola Chaco Outlier — buried ancestral tell/village at New Mexico.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Pueblo II–III 1120–1250 CE (post-Sunset Crater) · Sinagua / Ancestral Puebloan (Hisatsinom) with Mogollon/Hohokam influences
100-room red-Moenkopi sandstone pueblo with tower-kiva and Hopi-style ballcourt, outlier of Sinagua-Hisatsinom frontier after Sunset Crater eruption (1085 CE) improved farming.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo II–III 1050–1300 CE (Mesa Verde phase) · Ancestral Pueblo (Mogollon-Mesa Verde)
Largest Mesa Verde town: 600 rooms, 170 kivas, 22 m Great Kiva and Chaco-style great house.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Early Agricultural Period–Early Ceramic (1200 BCE–500 CE; peak 1000–500 BCE) · Early Agricultural / Cienega phase (pre-Hohokam)
Early Agricultural metropolis 1000 BCE — 400 pithouses & 1 km canal before Hohokam.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo II–III 850–1220 CE · Ancestral Pueblo (Virgin–Kayenta blend)
Pueblo II–III 100-room complex with restored 12 m kiva and largest pottery shard repository in Southwest.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Pueblo II–III (1050–1140 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo (Chacoan)
Cliff-point Great House 1050 CE — oval arc & solstice pictograph.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo I-III; early Bonito · Chacoan pioneer (Pueblo I) → classic Bonito
Earliest canyon great house (800–930 CE) at eastern mouth — L-shaped early Bonito 80-room great house with great kiva, petroglyphs and Fajada alignment, Chaco genesis type.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Pueblo II–III Chacoan (1080–1140 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo (Chacoan)
South Road Great House 1080 CE — 120 rooms, kiva & 9 m Chaco road.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo II-III; Chacoan · Chacoan Ancestral Pueblo → McElmo
Chaco south-side great house (72 rooms, 1100 CE) with tower kiva, enclosed plaza and South Road segment — Bonito to McElmo transition across canyon.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Burned Destruction Horizon West in Ohio Valley, United States is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo III; late McElmo revival · Mesa Verde McElmo → Chaco East Wash
Late McElmo eastern great house (30 rooms, 1105–1115 CE) at Chaco Wash narrows — single-wing McElmo revival after main canyon collapse, with check dams.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Nazca Hummingbird Annex North in Great Plains, United States is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo II-III; Chaco outlier · Chacoan McElmo outlier / local Red Mesa synthesis
Southern Wash outlier great house (50 rooms, c.1085 CE) with L-plan and Chaco road causeway — wash-margin agricultural outlier illustrating Chaco emulation.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo I–III (600–1300 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi)
Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings (600–1300 CE) with 600 sites including Cliff Palace (150 rooms, 23 kivas) under sandstone alcoves, transitioning from pithouses to masonry pueblos before…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo III to Historic (1150–1838 CE) — gateway pueblo at plains-pueblo interface · Towa Pueblo (Cicuye) / Plains-Pueblo trade
Pecos excavated by Kidder 1915–29, birthplace of Pueblo stratigraphy, 700 rooms 1300–1838 then abandoned to Jemez.
