🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Aztalan State Park
Mississippian 1000–1250 CE · Mississippian (Cahokian)
Northernmost Mississippian walled town 1000–1250 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Angel Mounds State Historic Site
Mississippian 1000–1450 CE · Mississippian (Angel phase)
42 ha Mississippian walled town 1000–1450 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Lindenmeier Paleo Site — Mississippi Valley (St Louis)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Lindenmeier Paleo Site in Mississippi Valley, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Canyon de Chelly White House South Ledge
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Canyon de Chelly White House South Ledge in Arizona, Chinle, United States is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Storage Jar Cache East — Ohio Valley (Columbus)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Storage Jar Cache East in Ohio Valley, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Cahokia — Mound 34 Copper Workshop East (St. Louis)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban; Mississippian
Cahokia — Mound 34 Copper Workshop East (St. Louis) in Illinois, St. Clair County, Cahokia, United States is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) an…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Caddo Mounds State Historic Site
Caddoan Mississippian 800–1300 CE (Early Caddo) · Caddoan (Hasinai)
Southernmost Caddoan Mississippian center with three mounds, plaza and El Camino trace.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Outer Chaco Canyon Settlement B — Chaco Canyon (55-41)
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Outer Chaco Canyon Settlement B — Chaco Canyon (55-41) at Chaco Canyon, United States is a Bronze Age (regional) ancient city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Pueblo Bonito — North Wall Ancillary (Chaco Canyon)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Pueblo Bonito — North Wall Ancillary (Chaco Canyon) in New Mexico, San Juan County, Chaco Canyon, United States is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 …
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Towosahgy State Historic Site
Late Mississippian (Medley–Dorena phases) · Mississippian (Bootheel)
Fortified Late Mississippian center (1000–1350 CE) with 7 mounds and bastioned palisade on Bootheel terrace.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Little Chaco Canyon Citadel Inner — Chaco Canyon (55-12)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Little Chaco Canyon Citadel Inner — Chaco Canyon (55-12) at Chaco Canyon, United States is a Chalcolithic (regional) ancient city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Machu Picchu Outlier Terrace
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Machu Picchu Outlier Terrace in Colorado Plateau, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Hohokam Casa Grande Compound A Great House
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Hohokam Casa Grande Compound A Great House in Arizona, Coolidge, United States is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Ancient City of Ness-Rath
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Ancient City of Ness-Rath in Ohio, United States is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) ancient city attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park
Fort Walton Mississippian 1050–1500 CE · Fort Walton (Apalachee) Mississippian
Mississippian chiefdom capital on Lake Jackson with 11 m platform mound and famed repoussé copper plates.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park
Middle Woodland 1–500 CE (Pinson phase) · Middle Woodland (Pinson Mound culture, Hopewell-influenced)
Largest grouping of platform mounds in Tennessee and largest Middle Woodland earthwork complex: 17 mounds (12 platform, burial, effigy) in 1,200-acre Forked Deer River park, with Saul's Mound (Sauls’…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Blood Run Site
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 · Earthwork
Mound Bottom–Pack Site Complex
Mississippian Middle Cumberland (1000–1350 CE) · Mississippian (Mound Bottom phase)
Major Mississippian town (1000–1350 CE) on Harpeth River meander: 14 platform and burial mounds including 13-m-high Monks-Mound-scale Mound A (90×70 m base) within 10 ha palisaded plaza, plus Pack…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Castalian Springs Mound Site
Mississippian Middle Cumberland (1100–1350 CE) · Mississippian (Castalian Springs phase)
Premier Middle Cumberland Mississippian town (1100–1350 CE) centered on mineral spring: two major platform mounds (Mound 1 6 m high 55×45 m, Mound 2 burial 3 m) plus smaller mound, large plaza and…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Spiro Mounds
Mississippian Spiro phases Harlan–Sprio 950–1450 CE (Craig Mortuary climax 1200–1400) · Caddoan Mississippian (Spiroan, ancestors of Wichita/Caddo)
Premier Mississippian and Caddoan necropolis and ceremonial center on Arkansas River: 12 mounds (Craig Mound – 10 m high, hollow burial chamber or ‘Spirit Lodge’ with shell-carved ‘Great Mortuary’…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Pineland Archeological Site (Calusa Complex)
Caloosahatchee I–V (100–1710 CE, major 500–1500) · Caloosahatchee (Calusa kingdom)
Capital water-court capital (Randell Complex) of Calusa chiefdom (100–1500 CE, historic to 1710): 5 sand-shell mounds up to 9 m high (Brown's Mound 50×45 m), Adam's Mound, Randell Mound, Low Mound…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Fewkes Mounds
Middle Mississippian (c.1000–1450 CE) – Thruston phase Middle Cumberland · Mississippian (Middle Cumberland culture)
The Fewkes Group (Boiling Springs, 40Wm1) is a fortified Middle Mississippian town on the Harpeth River near Brentwood, Tennessee, at 210 m.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Kin Bineola — Chaco Outlier Great House South
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 · Earthwork
Bottle Creek Indian Mounds
Mississippian Pensacola phase (1250–1550 CE) · Mississippian (Pensacola culture)
Pensacola-Mississippian island capital (1250–1550 CE) on low swamp island (0.4 sq km) in Mobile-Tensaw Delta: 18 platform and burial mounds (largest Mound A 11 m high 90×60 m) enclosing 5 plazas on…