🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Kwakiutl Cold Wooden Post North
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Kwakiutl Cold Wooden Post North in Great Plains, United States is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Iron Age culture.
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🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Kwakiutl Cold Wooden Post North in Great Plains, United States is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇦🇺 Australia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Scythian Animal Style Kurgan North in Pilbara, Australia is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Serpent Mound Egg Enclosure in Mississippi Valley, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Earthwork
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Sine-Saloum Shell Midden South in Nok Valley, Nigeria is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Hillfort
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Negev Kite Enclosure West in Steppe, Kazakhstan is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) hillfort attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Earthwork
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Kukulkan El Castillo Annex in Southern Alluvium, Iraq is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Laponia Wooden Stave Foundation East in Najd, Saudi Arabia is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Classical culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Early Woodland Adena 1000–400 BCE · Adena
Large Adena conical mound (38 ft/11.5 m high, 140 ft/43 m diameter) preserved in Indian Mound Reserve, Enon. One of the best-preserved Adena mounds in Ohio, surrounded by former enclosures now plowed.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Warri Head Hydraulic Earthwork South in Atacama, Chile is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Siberian Ice House Post North in Najd, Saudi Arabia is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Angkor Baray Extension South in Najd, Saudi Arabia is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Geoglyph
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Beothuk Wigwam Post North in Steppe, Kazakhstan is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) geoglyph attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Pyramid
Quitu-Cara / Integration Period · Caranqui / Quitu
15 earthen truncated pyramids with ramps, 10–20 m high, built by Quitu-Cara (Caranqui) people astride equatorial line, aligning to volcanoes Cayambe and Cotacachi with solar/astronomical purpose.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian 1050–1400 CE (Kincaid phase) · Mississippian (Caborn-Welborn)
19-mound Mississippian town on Ohio River, 1050–1400 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Early Woodland Adena · Adena
Adena conical mound (19.5 ft/6 m high, 95 ft/29 m diameter) preserved as Story Mound State Memorial, encircled by suburban Chillicothe but intact with original ditch.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Earthwork
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Medieval
Yamna Kurgan Circle South in Steppe, Kazakhstan is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Medieval culture.
🇦🇺 Australia · Geoglyph
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Nazca Trapezoid Extension East in Pilbara, Australia is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) geoglyph attributed to Classical culture.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Earthwork
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Naqa Lion Temple Outlier in Rift Valley, Kenya is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Earthwork
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Small Step Pyramid East in Meroe, Sudan is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Medieval culture.
🇨🇳 China · Earthwork
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Jebel Barkal Pyramid North in Xi'an Plain, China is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Medieval culture.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Earthwork
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Harrah Kite Chain South in Lapland, Sweden is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Early Neolithic to Iron Age (3700 BCE–500 BCE) · Neolithic farmers / Iron Age
Crickley Hill in Gloucestershire, Cotswolds, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic to Iron Age (3700 BCE–500 BCE) hillfort attributed to Neolithic farmers / Iron Age culture.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Earthwork
Konso · Konso people
UNESCO 2011 masterpiece of intensive hillside drystone terraces 60 km2 by Konso since 17th c (tradition 400 yr), stonewalled towns (paletas) with generation pa poles and waka anthropomorphic grave…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Early Neolithic (3700 BCE) to Iron Age · Neolithic causewayed / Hillfort
The Trundle in West Sussex, South Downs, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic (3700 BCE) to Iron Age earthwork attributed to Neolithic causewayed / Hillfort culture.