🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Maiden Castle Hillfort Dorset
Iron Age · Durotriges
Maiden Castle Hillfort Dorset at Dorset, United Kingdom is a Iron Age earthwork of the Durotriges tradition, built c. 600 BCE for 47 acre bivallate hillfort.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Blood Run Site
Late Prehistoric Oneota (Blood Run phase 1500–1700 CE) · Oneota (ancestors Dakota-Ioway)
Largest Oneota town 1500–1700: 76 mounds and boulder enclosure, 6,000 residents on Big Sioux.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Mustatils of Northwest Arabia
Late Neolithic (~5500–3500 BCE) · Neolithic Arabian pastoralist
More than 1,600 elongated rectangular courtyard monuments – Arabic mustatil – stitched across 200,000 km² of Saudi desert between the Nefud and Red Sea, rendered visible only by satellite.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Eildon Hill North — Ancillary Rampart Enclosure
Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Eildon Hill North — Ancillary Rampart Enclosure in Scotland, Scottish Borders, Melrose, United Kingdom is a Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) hillfort attribute…
🇰🇷 South Korea · Hillfort
Floodplain Hill Fort
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Floodplain Hill Fort in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) hillfort attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Gussage All Saints — Banjo Enclosure South
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland
Gussage All Saints — Banjo Enclosure South in England, Dorset, Gussage, United Kingdom is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) earthwork attribu…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Larkin Mound
Middle Woodland Weeden Island 200–600 CE · Weeden Island / Gulf Hopewell
Crystal River satellite burial mound with Hopewell copper and quartz, Gulf Hopewell southernmost evidence.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Camarones Suca Confluence Geoglyphs (Rio Camarones–Suca Junction)
Late Intermediate (1100–1420 CE) · Late Arica / San Miguel–Gentilar
Confluence terrace where Suca tributary meets Camarones main stem near Cuya (380 m). Eight figures on lower terrace gravels: 12-m marine fish, 20-m llama train, and 30-m ‘coast arrow’ pointing…
🇮🇱 Israel · Earthwork
Knoll Ingoldisthorpe Mound Complex
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Knoll Ingoldisthorpe Mound Complex in Negev, Israel is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) earthwork attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Maitland's Mesa Eastern Wadi Arm Kites (Wadi al-Qattafi East Arm Spur)
PPNB–Late Neolithic (7100–5500 BCE) · PPNB–Late Neolithic
Eastern spur of Wadi al-Qattafi system 8 km east of Maitland's Mesa (685 m) toward Jibal al-Khashabiyeh kite corridor (Kennedy).
🇲🇽 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.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Earthwork
Row Seaton Earthwork
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Row Seaton Earthwork in Paphos District, Cyprus is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age 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.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
Mississippian Early 900–1200 CE atop Woodland-Archaic · Mississippian (Lamar and Etowah)
17,000-year occupation culminating in 17 m Temple Mound, 900–1200 CE.
🇯🇴 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).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hillfort
Pediment-Spur Hill Fort
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Pediment-Spur Hill Fort in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) hillfort attributed to Classical culture.
🇺🇿 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.