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372 places in the atlas, 32 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Zuni Ancestral to Contact (1300–1680; Coronado 1540 first European battle) · Zuni (Ashiw) / Spanish Contact Coronado
Hawikuh excavated by Hodge 1917–23, 1540 Coronado battle with Estevánico death, 1680 revolt burned.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Kayenta Ancestral Pueblo (1250–1300 CE) + inscriptions 1661 Nieves, 1930s cowboys · Kayenta / Navajo / Spanish
Inscription House closed since 1968, Kayenta 1270 pueblo with Spanish 1661 nieves inscription.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic to Ancestral Puebloan (3000 BCE–1300 CE) · Southern Paiute / Ancestral Puebloan
Parashant Nampaweap recorded by Peel 1970s, Puebloan pilgrimage trail markers to Grand Canyon.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic Barrier (6000 BCE) → Fremont (600 CE) → Ute (1800 CE) · Barrier Canyon → Fremont → Ute layered
Sego three cultures described by Castleton 1970s, highway-visible 14 m panel with 75 figures.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Barrier Canyon Style (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Barrier Canyon archaic (pre-Fremont)
Horseshoe Great Gallery recorded by Schaafsma 1970s, Archaic Barrier Style before Anasazi.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Dinwoody (8000 BCE–1000 CE) to En-Toto Pecked to historic · Plains Archaic Dinwoody / Shoshone
Thermopolis Legend Rock state park, Dinwoody style intermontane archaic unique to Wyoming.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Sinagua (1120–1250 CE) post-Sunset Crater · Sinagua / Ancestral Puebloan
Wupatki excavated by Hargrave 1930s, Sinagua pueblos linked to Sunset Crater ash mulching.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic Hueco (6000 BCE) → Jornada Mogollon (1200 CE) → Tigua/Mescalero pictographs · Jornada Mogollon / Apache Comanche
El Paso huecos excavated by Jackson 1920s, 3000 pictographs, Comanche Cave masks 1000 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo IV to 1672 Spanish mission · Tompiro Pueblo / Salinas Spanish Missions (Franciscan)
Gran Quivira excavated by Vivian & Toulouse 1923, 1672 drought depopulation 16,000 to 0.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Jornada Mogollon (900–1400 CE) · Jornada Mogollon
Three Rivers recorded by Schaafsma 1960s, Jornada style linked to Mimbres–Casas Grandes.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Ancestral Puebloan Pueblo III (1200–1300 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Hisatsinom)
Mesa Verde Mug House excavated by Rohn 1960s, 80 rooms, backcountry ranger permit only.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Ancestral Puebloan (1000–1400 CE) and Spanish 1700s · Ancestral Puebloan → Rio Grande Pueblo
Albuquerque mesa excavated by Sundt 1970s, 24k peck basalt trail, NPS Mesa Prieta 1000.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo IV Glaze A (1350–1480 CE) · Ancestral Tano (Rio Grande Puebloan) Mogollon-influenced
Pottery Mound excavated by Hibben 1953–61, murals similar to Hopi kachinas 100 km west.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Fremont (500–1300 CE) · Fremont (Uinta Fremont)
Utah's Nine Mile excavated by Manning 1910s, Fremont owl-eyes figures and hunt scenes.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo IV (1260–1400 CE) Homolovi Cluster · Hopi ancestral (Hisatsinom)
Homolovi excavated by Fewkes 1896 and Adams & Hays 1980–, Hopi migration to mesas.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Sinagua (1125–1250 CE) · Sinagua
Walnut Canyon excavated by Fewkes and Colton 1930s, Sinagua canyon rim and canyon.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chacoan (950–1140 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan Chacoan
Kin Bineola excavated by Vivian 1960s, Chaco road to south Bonito via South Gap.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Mimbreños Classic (1000–1150 CE) Mimbres Black-on-white pottery · Mogollon Mimbres (Mogollon)
Mimbres excavated by Cosgrove 1920s, 800 Mimbres bowls with fish, human scenes.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Sinagua (1125–1400 CE) Hohokam-Sinagua blend · Sinagua
Tuzigoot excavated by Caywood & Spicer 1933–34, hill pueblo over marsh.
🇺🇸 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 · Ancient village
Pueblo II–III · Ancestral Puebloan / Chacoan
Greatest great house of Chaco: D-shaped 800-room complex with 32 kivas, planned in stages 850–1150 CE, aligned to cardinal directions and Chacoan road system radiating 60 km.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian 1000–1450 CE · Mississippian (Angel phase)
42 ha Mississippian walled town 1000–1450 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Hopewell 100–500 CE · Hopewell tradition
Effigy mound with 136 portrait pipes, Hopewell 100–300 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Hopewell Middle Woodland 100–400 CE · Hopewell tradition
Circle-octagon pair 320 m circle, UNESCO 2023.
