🇺🇬 Uganda · Ancient city
Bigo bya Mugenyi
Late Iron Age (14th–16th c CE) · Bacwezi / Early Bantu / Bahima pastoralists
Katonga valley earthwork city Bigo bya Mugenyi — 10 km ditch enclosing Bacwezi state capital.
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🇺🇬 Uganda · Ancient city
Late Iron Age (14th–16th c CE) · Bacwezi / Early Bantu / Bahima pastoralists
Katonga valley earthwork city Bigo bya Mugenyi — 10 km ditch enclosing Bacwezi state capital.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland 1–500 CE (Pinson phase) · Middle Woodland (Pinson Mound culture, Hopewell-influenced)
Largest grouping of platform mounds in Tennessee and largest Middle Woodland earthwork complex: 17 mounds (12 platform, burial, effigy) in 1,200-acre Forked Deer River park, with Saul's Mound (Sauls’…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Early to Middle Woodland (1000 BCE–300 CE) · Adena – early Hopewell
Paired Adena (1000–100 BCE) and Hopewell-era enclosures on left bank of Scioto 5 mi north of Chillicothe: large 350-m-diameter circular enclosure (12 ac) with interior ditch and 1.5 m embankment plus…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell (200 BCE–300 CE) · Hopewell
Hopewell enclosure pair on Scioto River terrace 9 km southwest of Chillicothe: large sub-square 160×140 m (3 ha) with 1.2 m embankment and interior ditch, conjoined at corner to 80 m diameter circle…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian (Thruston phase 1000–1370 CE) · Mississippian (Middle Cumberland – Thruston)
Mississippian mound-and-village on Mansker Creek near Nashville: platform mound 6 m high (50×35 m) rebuilt four times, truncating earlier Woodland component; village 4 ha with 300+ stone-box graves,…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Late Woodland – early Mississippian, Plum Bayou 650–1050 CE · Plum Bayou (aboriginal ancestors of Quapaw? Coles Creek related, not Caddo Mississippian)
Best-preserved Plum Bayou-culture platform-mound center (650–1050 CE) – 18 mounds (two tallest 15 m and 12 m) arranged geometrically around rectangular plazas and an earthwork embankment with…
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Neolithic 1750–1000 → Bronze Age 1000–400 → Iron Age 400 BCE–500 CE · Mun Valley Neolithic → Ban Chiang Bronze → Iron Age (Isan)
Ban Non Wat — 5000-year moated farming village (1750 BCE–500 CE, Neolithic→Iron Age) 50 km NE Nakhon Ratchasima, Mun floodplain, excavated 2002–12 Higham and Higham (Otago).
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Intermediate Lima (200–700 CE) with Middle Horizon Wari intrusive 500–700 CE · Lima (Ichma predecessor of Pachacamac) with Huari (Wari) superstructure
Seven-storey adobe pyramid (500×100 m, 25 m high) in Miraflores, Lima, built bookcase-style (small vertical adobe bricks placed on edge like books) to resist earthquakes, with Wari cemetery above.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Inner Chaco Canyon Citadel North — Chaco Canyon (55-11) at Chaco Canyon, United States is a Medieval (regional) earthwork of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell (c.100 BCE–250 CE) with Fort Ancient reuse · Hopewell → Fort Ancient
Outer-embankment timber circle 60 m diameter discovered 2007 by magnetometry inside Fort Ancient Hilltop Enclosure (Hopewell 100 BCE–500 CE, later Fort Ancient reuse).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Earthwork
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Northern Meroe Enclosure West — Meroe (56-11) at Meroe, Sudan is a Early Historic (regional) earthwork of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 800 CE for enclosure and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Geoglyph
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Eastern Yucatan Settlement Outer — Yucatan (55-37) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Iron Age (regional) geoglyph of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for settlement and associated settlement.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork
Neolithic · Irish Neolithic
Ceide Fields Neolithic Field System at Mayo, Céide, Ireland is a Neolithic earthwork of the Irish Neolithic tradition, built c. 3500 BCE for oldest field system 1000 ha under blanket bog.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Geoglyph
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Southern Yucatan Platform B — Yucatan (55-13) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Bronze Age (regional) geoglyph of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇨🇳 China · Earthwork
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Great Xi an Platform Outer — Xi an (56-10) at Xi an, China is a Bronze Age (regional) earthwork of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Bronze Age to Medieval · Votadini
Traprain Law Hillfort at East Lothian, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age to Medieval earthwork of the Votadini tradition, built c. 1000 BCE for phonolite plug hillfort with roman hoard.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age · British Iron Age
Cadbury Castle Somerset Camelot at Somerset, United Kingdom is a Iron Age earthwork of the British Iron Age tradition, built c. 1000 BCE for camelot-identified hillfort 4 ramparts.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
New Cuzco Sanctuary A — Cuzco (55-17) at Cuzco, Peru is a Chalcolithic (regional) geoglyph of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for sanctuary and associated settlement.
🇨🇳 China · Earthwork
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Outer Xi an Platform Central — Xi an (56-42) at Xi an, China is a Iron Age (regional) earthwork of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Earthwork
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Eastern Meroe Village North — Meroe (56-15) at Meroe, Sudan is a Iron Age (regional) earthwork of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 800 CE for village and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Earthwork
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Outer Meroe Temple B — Meroe (56-23) at Meroe, Sudan is a Bronze Age (regional) earthwork of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for temple and associated settlement.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland; Hopewell
Cowan Creek — South Causeway Secondary (Ohio) in Ohio, Clinton County, Cowan Creek, United States is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) earthw…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland; Hopewell
Newark Octagon — North Avenue Causeway (Licking County) in Ohio, Licking County, Newark, United States is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) e…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland; Hopewell
Hopeton Earthworks — East Wall Gateway in Ohio, Ross County, Hopeton, United States is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) earthwork attributed…