🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork
Marajoara Mounds (Teso dos Bichos)
Marajoara Phase (Polychrome Tradition) · Marajoara (Arauan-derived Amazonian Polychrome)
Marajoara chiefdom mounds (800–1400 CE)—40-m tesos and funerary urn fields on Amazon's delta island.
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🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork
Marajoara Phase (Polychrome Tradition) · Marajoara (Arauan-derived Amazonian Polychrome)
Marajoara chiefdom mounds (800–1400 CE)—40-m tesos and funerary urn fields on Amazon's delta island.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Xinguano 800–1600 CE (late pre-Columbian Amazon) · Xinguano (Arawak, ancestral Kuikuro)
Eastern Kuhikugu causeway-plaza K15 — 220 m plaza with 20 m causeways linking to fish weir, 2.8 km east of X11.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Late Pre-Columbian (200 BCE – 900 CE) · Acre (Beni) geoglyph builders
Western Acre Capixaba 300 m circle ditch 3 m deep with embankment and 120 m square 2 m high under pasture — causeway 400 m links.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Late Pre-Columbian (200 BCE – 900 CE) · Acre (Beni) geoglyph builders
Western Acre Capixaba 300 m circle ditch 3 m deep with embankment and 120 m square 2 m high under pasture — causeway 400 m links.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Pre-Columbian 1–1500 CE · Acre / Xinguano tradition
Hundreds of large ditched enclosures (squares, circles, U-shapes) revealed since 1977 by deforestation, built by pre-Columbian Amazonian cultures using forest clearance, dated 1–1500 CE, associated…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
The Valongo Wharf (Portuguese: Cais do Valongo) is an old dock located in the port area of Rio de Janeiro, between the current Coelho e Castro and Sacadura Cabral streets.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Nagar Pediment Archaeological Complex in Piauí, Brazil is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Ancient City of Mount Winton in Piauí, Brazil is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Nazca culture.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Thonis Temple Pylon South in Sambaqui Coast, Brazil is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork
Period Classical · Regional culture Americas-Mound
Pyramid Outlier Americas 46 — Brazil Region 10 in Brazil Region 10, Brazil is a Iron Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork
Period Classical · Regional culture Americas-Mound
Hillfort Rampart Americas 37 — Brazil Region 1 in Brazil Region 1, Brazil is a Iron Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.