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484 places in the atlas, 33 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Pioneer–Sedentary (300 BCE–1150 CE) · Hohokam (Sonoran Desert tradition)
Hohokam type site (300 BCE–1150 CE) — pithouse village with 2 ballcourts and Gila River canals, Arizona.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell (100 BCE–500 CE) · Hopewell tradition
Unusual Hopewell (100 BCE–500 CE) enclosure complex at confluence of Paint Creek and North Fork, comprising nine geometric elements—four circles, two squares, crescents and parallel walls—covering 26…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pre-Classic to Classic Hohokam (600–1200 CE) · Hohokam Pre-Classic (Colonial–Sedentary) → Early Classic
Snaketown East Darby Hohokam Settlement is the field-house hamlet cluster 3 km east of Snaketown's ballcourt on the Gila north terrace — Rice's Pima–Gila settlement model periphery.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland (Hopewell) · Hopewell (Ohio Hopewell)
Hopewell earthworks (200 BCE–400 CE) on Little Miami — 300-m Great Enclosure and pipestone pipes at Cincinnati.
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
Mississippian (Hiwassee Island / Dallas) · Mississippian (Tennessee Valley)
Type site Hiwassee Island phase (900–1400 CE) — 5 mounds at Tennessee-Hiwassee confluence.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland (Deptford–Weeden Island, 200 BCE–750 CE) · Deptford–Weeden Island (Florida Woodland)
Woodland plaza center (200 BCE–750 CE) with 6 mounds and Hopewell exotics on Crystal River estuary, Florida.
🇺🇸 United States · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Jaketown — Mound C West Slope (Humphreys County) in Mississippi, Humphreys County, Jaketown, United States is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE)…
🇺🇸 United States · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age; Mississippian
Kincaid — Mound Mx10 North Platform (Massac) in Illinois, Massac County, Kincaid, United States is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus at…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle–Late Archaic (3500–2800 BCE) · Middle Archaic Watson Brake culture
Oldest North American mound complex: 11 mounds 5400 BP enclosing oval plaza, hunter-gatherer monument without agriculture.
🇺🇸 United States · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age; Mississippian
Etowah — Mound C West Face Ancillary (Bartow) in Georgia, Bartow County, Etowah, United States is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus att…
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Pre-Clovis (Western Stemmed) · Paisley (Western Stemmed) / Pre-Clovis
14,500-year coprolite caves — oldest human DNA in Americas (14,300 BP) with Western Stemmed points, Oregon.
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
Mississippian (Wolf Lake–Douglas) · Mississippian (Southern Illinois)
Southern IL Mississippian hamlet (1000–1300 CE) on Cache River — two platforms at Cairo Lowlands margin.
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
Late Mississippian (Dyer phase) · Mississippian (Reelfoot)
Late Mississippian hamlet mound (1250–1500 CE) on Forked Deer River — palisaded 1-ha village at Dyer County.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Late Prehistoric Oneota (Blood Run phase 1500–1700 CE) · Oneota (ancestors Dakota-Ioway)
Largest Oneota town 1500–1700: 76 mounds and boulder enclosure, 6,000 residents on Big Sioux.
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
Late Mississippian (Lilbourn phase) · Mississippian (Bootheel)
Bastioned Late Mississippian town (1100–1350 CE) near New Madrid — 6-m mound with 3-ha palisaded village.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Weeden Island 200–600 CE · Weeden Island / Gulf Hopewell
Crystal River satellite burial mound with Hopewell copper and quartz, Gulf Hopewell southernmost evidence.
🇺🇸 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 · Earthwork
Early Woodland, Adena culture 1000 BCE–1 CE (peak 250–150 BCE) · Adena
Largest conical burial mound in North America (62 ft/19 m high, 240 ft/73 m diameter, 60,000 tons earth moved by basket) built by Adena peoples at Moundsville, WV.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Ancestral Hopi (Hisatsinom) to Historic Hopi 900 CE–present · Hopi (Hisatsinom, Hopi-Tewa)
Continuously inhabited 900 CE Hopi terraced pueblo atop 300-m mesa.
🇺🇸 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 · Earthwork
Early to Middle Mississippian 1000–1350 CE · Mississippian (Shiloh phase)
Palisaded 8-mound Mississippi River town on Tennessee River, 1000–1350 CE.
