🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Gault Site
Pre-Clovis to Clovis (16,000–12,700 BCE) · Pre-Clovis (Gault Assemblage) → Clovis
Pre-Clovis workshop (16,000 BCE) — 600k artifacts and engraved stones below Clovis at Buttermilk Creek, Texas.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Snaketown
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 · Ancient village
Stallings Island Mound
Late Archaic (Stallings phase, 3410–2730 BCE) · Stallings culture (Late Archaic, Southeastern US)
Type site of Stallings fiber pottery (3410–2730 BCE) — earliest ceramics in North America on Savannah River island.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Cactus Hill
Pre-Clovis to Clovis · Pre-Clovis (Cactus Hill)
Sandy terrace pre-Clovis site (16,000 BCE) with blades beneath Clovis on Nottoway River, Virginia.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chimney Rock Great House Pueblo
Pueblo II (Chacoan, 925–1125 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Chacoan)
Northernmost Chacoan great house (925–1125 CE) aligned to 18.6-year lunar standstill between twin spires, Colorado.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Lubbock Lake Landmark
Paleo-Indian to Late Prehistoric (Clovis to Puebloan) · Clovis, Folsom, Plano, Archaic, Late Prehistoric
11,000-year stratified Paleo-Indian site — Clovis mammoth kill to Folsom bison beds on Yellow House Draw, Texas.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Topper Site
Pre-Clovis (Topper) to Clovis · Pre-Clovis (Topper)/Clovis
Pre-Clovis chert quarry (15,000 BCE) with debated lower horizon below Clovis on Savannah River, South Carolina.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Acoma Pueblo (Sky City)
Pueblo III–present 1150 CE–present · Acoma (Keresan, ancestors Ancestral Puebloan/Zuni lineage)
Oldest continuously inhabited community in North America (since 1150 CE, oral history to 1100).
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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Montezuma Castle National Monument
Sinagua (c.1100–1400 CE) Southern Sinagua Classic · Sinagua
Montezuma Castle – neither castle nor Aztec – is North America's best-preserved cliff dwelling, inset 30 m up a vertical limestone cliff above Beaver Creek in Verde Valley, Arizona.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Betatakin Cliff Dwelling
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Betatakin Cliff Dwelling — buried ancestral tell/village at Arizona.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Canyon de Chelly National Monument ( də-SHAY) was established on April 1, 1931, as a unit of the National Park Service.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Cliff Palace
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
Homolovi II Pueblo
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Homolovi II Pueblo — buried ancestral tell/village at Arizona.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Keet Seel Cliff Dwelling
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Keet Seel Cliff Dwelling — buried ancestral tell/village at Arizona.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Kin Biniola Chaco Outlier
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Kin Biniola Chaco Outlier — buried ancestral tell/village at New Mexico.