🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
La Joya
Classic Veracruz 100–1000 CE · Classic Veracruz (Remojadas-Early Gulf)
26-m earthen platform pyramid on Gulf coastal plain, 100–1000 CE.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Earthwork
Dolmen Cairn Mound Complex
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Dolmen Cairn Mound Complex in Buriram Province, Thailand is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) earthwork attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Dhulikatta — Buddhist Stupa Fort
Early Historic (300 BCE–200 CE) · Satavahana
Dhulikatta — Buddhist Stupa Fort in Telangana, Karimnagar, India is a Early Historic (300 BCE–200 CE) temple complex attributed to Satavahana culture.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Hillfort
Bala Seaton Hill Fort
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Bala Seaton Hill Fort in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) hillfort attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Stonehenge Cursus
Early Neolithic 3800–3600 BCE · Early Neolithic Britons
2.7-km Neolithic processional enclosure predating Stonehenge by 500 years.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Grave Creek Mound
Early Woodland, Adena culture 1000 BCE–1 CE (peak 250–150 BCE) · Adena
Largest conical burial mound in North America (62 ft/19 m high, 240 ft/73 m diameter, 60,000 tons earth moved by basket) built by Adena peoples at Moundsville, WV.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork
Town Henthorn Mound Complex
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Town Henthorn Mound Complex in Piauí, Brazil is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) earthwork attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Geoglyph
Kurgan Church Geoglyph
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Kurgan Church Geoglyph in Negev, Israel is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Wadi al-Qattafi West Mesa Escarpment Kites (Western Escarpment M-2 Chain)
PPNB (7300–6500 BCE) · PPNB
Western escarpment of Wadi al-Qattafi headwaters (695 m) where wadi initiates in southcentral basalt fields (Toms 2021).
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Azapa Pampa Algodonal North Geoglyphs (Algodonal Plain)
Late Archaic–Formative (900 BCE–600 CE) · Alto Ramírez
Broad pampa (980 m) at Azapa head, Algodonal plain toward the Lluta divide. Eleven figures: 40-m great lizard, 20-m camelid caravan, and 45-m inverted triangle with internal dots (altiplano style).
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Uzundara Fortress
Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian (c. late 4th–2nd cent BCE, Achaemenid precursor debated) · Greco-Bactrian (Alexander successor kingdom)
Greco-Bactrian frontier phrourion — 13-tower stone fortress locking Bactria–Sogdiana pass on Susiztag ridge.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Geoglyph
Geoglyphs of Bala
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Geoglyphs of Bala in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) geoglyph attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Las Capas — Early Hohokam Village (Tucson Basin)
Early Agricultural Period–Early Ceramic (1200 BCE–500 CE; peak 1000–500 BCE) · Early Agricultural / Cienega phase (pre-Hohokam)
Early Agricultural metropolis 1000 BCE — 400 pithouses & 1 km canal before Hohokam.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Hillfort
Dun Great Hill Fort
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Dun Great Hill Fort in Paphos District, Cyprus is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) hillfort attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇦🇺 Australia · Earthwork
Selby Earthwork
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Selby Earthwork in New South Wales, Australia is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) earthwork attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Azapa Cerro Belén Extension Geoglyphs (Belén Hillside North)
Formative (500 BCE–800 CE) · Alto Ramírez–Cabuza
North-facing 15° hillside of Cerro Belén at km 18, 120 m above valley floor, with 10 figures: 18-m double-headed camelid, 26-m fret, and 35-m avenue with central cairn line.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Shiloh Indian Mounds National Historic Landmark
Early to Middle Mississippian 1000–1350 CE · Mississippian (Shiloh phase)
Palisaded 8-mound Mississippi River town on Tennessee River, 1000–1350 CE.
🇨🇱 Chile · Hillfort
Tre-Fell Hillfort
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Tre-Fell Hillfort in Coquimbo, Chile is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) hillfort attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Liberty Earthworks
Middle Woodland Hopewell 100–350 CE · Hopewell tradition
Hopewell square 320 m with corner circles and Liberty Mound, Chillicothe cluster component.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Hillfort
Alignment Roxby Camp
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Alignment Roxby Camp in Catamarca, Argentina is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) hillfort attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Geoglyph
Down-Henge Geoglyph
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Down-Henge Geoglyph in Thessaly, Greece is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Chaviña Pampa Colorada Northwest Geoglyphs (Pampa Colorada NW Extension)
Early Intermediate–Middle Horizon transition (500–750 CE) · Huarpa–Wari
Northwest lobe of Pampa Colorada (3,300 m) extending toward Cora Cora trail. Fourteen figures: 30-m ‘scepter’ (shaft + disc), 16-m condor silhouette, and 80-m bifurcating avenue.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Winterville Mounds
Plaquemine Mississippian Coles Creek-Winterville 900–1450 CE · Coles Creek / Plaquemine
16.7 m truncated pyramid center of 23-mound plaza, 1200–1400 CE.
🇨🇦 Canada · Geoglyph
Maranhao Hydraulic Fish Trap West — British Columbia (Vancouver)
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Maranhao Hydraulic Fish Trap West in British Columbia, Canada is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) geoglyph attributed to Medieval culture.