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38 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Earthwork
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Central Giza Citadel Outer — Giza (56-48) at Giza, Egypt is a Bronze Age (regional) earthwork of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 800 CE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Earthwork
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Central Yucatan Fortress East — Yucatan (55-07) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Neolithic (regional) earthwork of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for fortress and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Geoglyph
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Central Yucatan Terrace North — Yucatan (55-14) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Medieval (regional) geoglyph of the Medieval tradition, built c. 400 BCE for terrace and associated settlement.
🇨🇳 China · Earthwork
Classical (regional) · Classical
Great Xi an Hilltop Central — Xi an (56-41) at Xi an, China is a Classical (regional) earthwork of the Classical tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for hilltop and associated settlement.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Saka Semirechye (590 BCE) — Besshatyr central row · Saka Semirechye (Issyk–Besshatyr eastern Saka)
72 m semi-royal central row mound 8 at 640 m: larch chamber 89 gold + burnt outer house, linking south/north dynasty rows.
🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Inner Chaco Canyon Terrace Central — Chaco Canyon (55-34) at Chaco Canyon, United States is a Early Historic (regional) geoglyph of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇨🇳 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.
🇮🇳 India · Earthwork
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Upper Khajuraho Platform Central — Khajuraho (60-33) at Khajuraho, India is a Iron Age (regional) contested of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate (Atacameño 900–1400 CE) · Atacameño Likan Antai Sur-crossing caravans
14 halite-island figures on Sur central playa 2280 m: camelids + bisected arrow on gypsum isle amid brine sheet.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate Tarapacá–Pica · Pica–Tarapacá caravan
Tamarugal core flat geoglyphs: 32 avenues on deflation pampa between Humberstone and Pintados.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (Arabian Neolithic) · Central Arabian Late Neolithic
Easternmost mustatil province (620 m, 25°39′N 46°39′E) on Thumamah limestone plateau 80 km NE of Riyadh, pushing mustatil distribution 400 km east of Dawadmi core.
🇪🇹 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…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Earthwork
Early Iron Age to Early Medieval · Sarmatian, Alan and early Turkic steppe groups
200 Ustyurt steppe kites (1000 BCE–500 CE) funneling saiga across the Aral–Caspian plateau.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age (Early Saka, Tasmola, 9th–8th c BCE) · Tasmola early Saka (Central Kazakhstan)
Largest Tasmola mound (60 m, 820–780 BCE) with 430-gold elite couple — contemporary with Arzhan 1.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic · Central Najd Neolithic pastoralists
29 Najd mustatil platforms (4900–4200 BCE) — easternmost Saudi rectangular ritual field.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate to Middle Horizon (Siguas–Nazca–Wari) · Lucanas puna Siguas–Nazca–Wari (Puquio transect)
38 high-puna figures on Chaviña East 3980 m: zoomorphs plus 3.2 km solstice avenues radiating from apacheta to Misti sightline.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Horizon to Early Intermediate (Chavín / Lima) · Chavín-influenced central coast / Lima
Low pampa (420 m) between Río Chillón and Río Chancay, on the desert margin of Lima, with 20 hill-slope and pampa geoglyphs: 50-120 m linear avenues, 25 m double spiral, and 18-35 m anthropomorphs on…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Chalcolithic, Trypillia BII Cucuteni A-B · Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
3850 BCE 450-ha burnt-house proto-city—6,000 inhabitants, Europe's largest Chalcolithic settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate (Huarpa–Early Wari) · Huarpa / Rancha–Huarpa transition
18+ high-puna (3,200 m) trapezoids and zoomorphs (200 BCE–600 CE) linking Nazca to Wari highlands.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age (Saka, 600–400 BCE) · Saka of Semirechye (Issyk–Besshatyr, eastern Saka)
31-mound Saka royal necropolis (600–400 BCE) — Ili River's 'Five Tents' with 105-m royal mound and log house.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian 1000–1450 CE, apogee 1200–1350 CE · Mississippian (ancestral Choctaw/Chickasaw)
29-mound plaza center with grand chief's platform mound above Black Warrior River.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
Formative to Regional Development (500 BCE–600 CE) · Kilamope (Upano) culture; Sangay phase Huapula
Lost Amazon cities (500 BCE–600 CE) under Upano forest—20 towns, 6,000 mounds and 25 km of roads revealed by 2024 LiDAR.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age Tasmola 800-300 BCE · Tasmola Saka (western Saka)
Tasmola culture earthen kurgans (800-300 BCE) with 12-m dromoi catacombs, western Saka type-site at Karaganda.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Inca) · Atacameño–Inca caravan
Salar del Sur east corridor: 20 paired Avenues forming 1.4 km converging system toward playa.
