🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Shiloh Indian Mounds National Historic Landmark
Early to Middle Mississippian 1000–1350 CE · Mississippian (Shiloh phase)
Palisaded 8-mound Mississippi River town on Tennessee River, 1000–1350 CE.
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484 places in the atlas, 33 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇺🇸 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.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell 100–350 CE · Hopewell tradition
Hopewell square 320 m with corner circles and Liberty Mound, Chillicothe cluster component.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Plaquemine Mississippian Coles Creek-Winterville 900–1450 CE · Coles Creek / Plaquemine
16.7 m truncated pyramid center of 23-mound plaza, 1200–1400 CE.
🇺🇸 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 · Rock art
Great Basin archaic to Numic (12000 BCE–1850 CE rock; peak 4000–1000 BCE Coso Representational) · Great Basin Coso (Northern Uto-Aztecan?) predecessors
China Lake Coso excavated by Grant & Farley 1960s, UCLA bighorn sheep style 4000 BCE, navy protected.
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Paquimé Casas Grandes Compound in Mississippi Valley, United States is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) temple complex attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Necropolis
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Necropolis of White in Ohio, United States is a Moche (100–800 CE) necropolis attributed to Moche culture.
🇺🇸 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.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian 1000–1450 CE, apogee 1200–1350 CE · Mississippian (ancestral Choctaw/Chickasaw)
29-mound plaza center with grand chief's platform mound above Black Warrior River.
🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Kwakiutl Cold Wooden Post North in Great Plains, United States is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Serpent Mound Egg Enclosure in Mississippi Valley, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Bronze Age 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 · Hydraulic works
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Local Neolithic
Saka Kurgan Chain East in Great Plains, United States is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) hydraulic attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Bronze Age
Kuelap Fortress North in Mississippi Valley, United States is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) rock art attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Chan Chan Citadel West in Colorado Plateau, United States is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) rock art attributed to Classical culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Early Woodland Adena 1000–400 BCE · Adena
Large Adena conical mound (38 ft/11.5 m high, 140 ft/43 m diameter) preserved in Indian Mound Reserve, Enon. One of the best-preserved Adena mounds in Ohio, surrounded by former enclosures now plowed.
🇺🇸 United States · Buried city
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Pedra Furada Shelter in Colorado Plateau, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Classical culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic through Hohokam 7500 BCE–1400 CE · Hohokam and Archaic–Patayan
4,000-petroglyph basalt concentration, 7500 BCE–1400 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian 1050–1400 CE (Kincaid phase) · Mississippian (Caborn-Welborn)
19-mound Mississippian town on Ohio River, 1050–1400 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Early Woodland Adena · Adena
Adena conical mound (19.5 ft/6 m high, 95 ft/29 m diameter) preserved as Story Mound State Memorial, encircled by suburban Chillicothe but intact with original ditch.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Vihara Cell Group West in Southwest, United States is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) rock art attributed to Classical culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian / Nodena phase 1000–1541 CE · Mississippian Nodena
Moat-walled Mississippian Casqui town visited by de Soto 1541.
🇺🇸 United States · Kurgan
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Saka Kurgan Chain East in Great Plains, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) kurgan attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Kayenta Ancestral Pueblo (1250–1300 CE) plus earlier Basketmaker 300 CE · Kayenta Ancestral Pueblo (Hisatsinom)
Keet Seel excavated by Fewkes 1917 and Dean dendro 1970s, 155 rooms, trail 8 km.
