🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Monte Albán Terrace South
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Monte Albán Terrace South in Colorado Plateau, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Hillfort
Pazyryk Frozen Kurgan Outlier West — Atacama (Calama)
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Pazyryk Frozen Kurgan Outlier West in Atacama, Chile is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) hillfort attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure
Early Neolithic · Windmill Hill / Hembury Ware
Type-site causewayed enclosure 2 km from Avebury — three interrupted ditch circuits enclosing 8.5 ha.
🇳🇴 Norway · Hillfort
Mound of the Hostages Kurgan Annex East
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Bronze Age
Mound of the Hostages Kurgan Annex East in Finnmark, Norway is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) hillfort attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Earthwork
Cerro Sechín Relief Wall — Atacama (Copiapo)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Cerro Sechín Relief Wall in Atacama, Chile is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Ollantaytambo Quarry Extension
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Medieval
Ollantaytambo Quarry Extension in Atacama, Chile is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Medieval culture.
🇳🇴 Norway · Geoglyph
Beothuk Wigwam Post North — Finnmark (Alta)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Classical
Beothuk Wigwam Post North in Finnmark, Norway is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Classical culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Earthwork
Sukuh Pyramid Temple
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Sukuh Pyramid Temple in Giza Plateau, Egypt is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Medieval culture.
🇸🇳 Senegal · Earthwork
Essaouira Rock Carving
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Essaouira Rock Carving in Burr, Senegal is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Medieval culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Thornborough Henges — Southern Triple Alignment
Late Neolithic (3500–2500 BCE) · Late Neolithic Northern
Thornborough's triple henges excavated by Thomas 1952 and Harding 1981, gypsum-covered banks visible from 3 km, linked to Nunwick henge 1 km.
🇩🇪 Germany · Earthwork
Heuneburg Hillfort Upper Danube
Hallstatt (600–400 BCE) · Hallstatt Celtic princely seat
Danube's Heuneburg excavated by Kimmig 1950–, mudbrick Mediterranean-style wall unique north of Alps, rich tumuli like Hohmichele nearby.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
High Bank Works
Hopewell Middle Woodland 100–400 CE · Hopewell tradition
Circle-octagon pair 320 m circle, UNESCO 2023.
🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Blythe Intaglios
Late Prehistoric 1000–1500 CE (OSL), possibility Protohistoric · Mojave/Quechan; Patayan culture
Mojave giant desert figures: 50-m human intaglios above Colorado River.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Hambledon Hill
Neolithic to Iron Age (3670 BCE–500 BCE) · Neolithic / Iron Age
Hambledon Hill in Dorset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Neolithic to Iron Age (3670 BCE–500 BCE) earthwork attributed to Neolithic / Iron Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Pharr Mounds
Middle Woodland Miller culture contemporary with Hopewell 1–400 CE · Miller (Hopewell-influenced eastern Woodland); Hopewell
Eight low dome mounds (2–6 ft high) at Natchez Trace Milepost 286.7, best-preserved Middle Woodland mound group in northeast Mississippi.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Grimspound
Late Bronze Age (1300–600 BCE) · Dartmoor Bronze Age (Trevisker)
Late Bronze Age enclosed settlement (c. 1300–600 BCE) in a valley between Hamel Down and Hookney Tor, comprising a 150 m diameter stone wall enclosing 24 hut circles (2–5 m diameter) with paved…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Durrington Walls and Woodhenge
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Wessex
Massive Neolithic henge enclosure (c. 2600 BCE), 500 m diameter, largest in Britain, with southern timber circle and dense Late Neolithic settlement (1000+ pits, houses).
🇦🇲 Armenia · Earthwork
Harichavank Gate — Molokan Settlement Granite Slab
Bronze Age (1500 BCE cyclopean) reused 19th Molokan · Bronze Age cyclopean → Molokan settlers 1920
Harich cyclopean.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar del Sur Geoglyphs (Antofagasta – Sierra Gorda)
Formative to Late Intermediate (Alto Ramírez–Tarapacá) · Atacameño / Tarapacá caravan tradition
Southernmost caravan geoglyph cluster at Salar del Sur (23°S): 31+ cleared camelid and avenue figures on salt-crust pampa.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Earthwork
Tin Tab Trackway
Neolithic Funnel Beaker 3300 BCE to Bronze Age · Funnel Beaker (TRB) culture
3300 BCE Neolithic heavy-haul bog road (800 m, 2.8 m wide) at Tin Tab, Drenthe, aligned to Emmen hunebed for megalithic sledge transport.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Wadi Al-Qattafi Central Gorge Slot Kites (Central Arm Narrows)
PPNB Late to PN (7000–5800 BCE) · Central Qattafi gorge bottleneck trappers
7 bidirectional central gorge kites 710 m in 3.2 km 25 m-deep narrows — 150 m walls plus deepest 1.6 m pits with 21 gazelle skeletons in situ.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Maitland East Ridge Chapel Kites (Eastern Jabal Maitland Sacred Ridge)
PPNB Late–PN (7100–6000 BCE) · Maitland Mesa chapel-associated trappers (SE Badia Late Neolithic)
8 Maitland triangular-pen kites 750 m with chapel 40 m from pen QEM-03 — quern butchery slab and infant burial chapel.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Maitland's Mesa Kite Enclosure (Maitland's Hillfort Mesa)
PPNB to Late Neolithic · Harrat pastoral foragers
Historic type-site where RAF pilot Maitland coined 'desert kite' (1927): 11 kites and cairn chain on basalt mesa.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Jabal Wisad Desert Kites (Wisad Pools Black Desert)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Pottery Neolithic · Black Desert pastoral foragers
Jabal Wisad plateau kites: 14 funnels on Black Desert inselberg above Neolithic Wisad Pools.