🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Acoma Pueblo — Sky City Mesa Keresan
Acoma Keres (1150–present mesa; 1629 mission) · Keresan Acoma (Sky City)
Acoma excavated by M. Ellis 1960s rim, 1150 occupation Enchanted Mesa ancestor, 1598 Spanish battle.
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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Acoma Keres (1150–present mesa; 1629 mission) · Keresan Acoma (Sky City)
Acoma excavated by M. Ellis 1960s rim, 1150 occupation Enchanted Mesa ancestor, 1598 Spanish battle.
🇺🇸 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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient village
Preceramic (5700–2500 BCE Bandurria period with 3200 BCE monumental circular architecture to 4100 BCE Aceramic) · Preceramic Norte Chico (Bandurria part of Norte Chico Caral sphere 5000–3500)
Bandurria excavated by Chu 2007, 4100 mound earliest 2700 circular, cotton net.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Basketmaker to Pueblo III (300–1300 CE) plus Navajo later · Kayenta Ancestral Puebloan
Mummy Cave excavated by Fewkes and Morris 1920s, mummy found 1882 with slave.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient village
Garamantian (500 BCE–600 CE) · Garamantian oasis farmers
Fewet excavated by di Lernia 2000s, 100 tumuli satellite to Garama.
🇵🇪 Peru · Mound
Preceramic (3500–1800 BCE) with early cotton 3300 BCE and indigo 1500 BCE · Preceramic Cupisnique antecedent with early cotton textile industry
Huaca Prieta Bird 1947, Dillehay 2003 oldest cotton 3300 indigo.