🇨🇱 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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Geoglyph
Cerne Abbas Giant
Early Medieval 700–1100 CE per 2020 OSL; earlier prehistoric speculation revised · Late Saxon / Early Medieval Wessex (?)
55-m chalk giant with club on Dorset hill - maybe Saxon Hercules.
🇺🇸 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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Geoglyph
Harappan Geoglyph — Central Anatolia Annex 423
Harappan · Harappan
Harappan geoglyph at Central Anatolia.
🇨🇱 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.
🇯🇴 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.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Earthwork
Wadi al-Khub Mustatils
Late Neolithic, Eastern Badia Neolithic · Eastern Badia Late Neolithic hunters
7 mustatil enclosures (5500-5100 BCE) on Wadi al-Khub hammada, northernmost Levantine mustatil bridging Arabia to Jordan kite province.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Qasr Azraq North Kite Field (Azraq Oasis Northern Fringe)
PPNB to Pottery Neolithic (wetland phase) · Azraq wetland foragers
Oasis-edge kite group on the Azraq mudflat–hamada beach ridge: 12 low-angle V-traps for wetland fauna.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Maitland South Cairn-Connector Kites (Southern Cairn Chain Kites)
PPNB Late to Late Neolithic (7000–5500 BCE) · South Maitland cairn-alignment community (Maitland Badia Late Neolithic)
9 linearly cairn-connected kites 715 m: 280–650 m walls linked by 2-m cairn chain every 45–80 m to Qasr Usaykhim.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Alto Ramírez East Pampa Gallinazo Geoglyphs (Gallinazo Plain Figures)
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate (Cabuza–Maitas 650–1200 CE) · Lluta Cabuza–Maitas–San Miguel valley traders
31 eastern pampa figures on Gallinazo plain 2.2 km east of Alto Ramírez: rhomb anthropomorphs plus 140 m solstice corridor.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Harrat Al-Sham West Edge Kites (Western Harra Scarp Line)
PPNB Late–PN (7500–6000 BCE) · Harra west scarp Harra limestone–basalt contact trappers
12 scarp-edge hybrid kites 820 m: 250–720 m split-material walls (basalt vs limestone) converging to brink chute with 8–12 m natural drop.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
El Médano – Los Médanos Geoglyphs (Copiapó Dune Field)
El Molle to Copiapó Culture · Copiapó Atacameño–Diaguita caravaneers
Dune-plinth geoglyphs south of Copiapó: 14 trench-revetted figures resisting barchan burial.
🇮🇱 Israel · Geoglyph
Wadi Arabah Desert Kite Cluster (Arava Rift Valley)
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze I · Arava Chalcolithic–EB pastoral-miners
Rift-floor kite cluster 18 m asl in the Arava north of Eilat: 11 V-shaped Negev-type traps.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Camarones North Terrace Geoglyphs (Northern Camarones Bluff)
Early Intermediate (Alto Ramírez 400 BCE–350 CE) with Archaic midden · Camarones Alto Ramírez valley fishers–farmers (Chinchorro descendant)
18 north bluff figures 200 m above Camarones gorge: round-head giants + llama and 62 m trapezoid to coastal springs.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Azapa Cerro Moreno Geoglyphs (Mid-Valley Headland Figures)
Formative to Middle Horizon (Alto Ramírez–Tiwanaku 400–1000 CE) · Azapa Tiwanaku–Cabuza–San Miguel valley oasis
26 mid-A with plumed giants + feline on Cerro Moreno 420 m, above Azapa fertile oasis 18 km from Pacific.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Wadi Rashid North Meander Kites (Northern Loop Meander Field)
PPNB Late–PN · Wadi Rashid meander peninsula trappers
1 peninsula meander kite 700 m: only 500 m artificial walls (220+280) closing 320° natural cliff loop peninsula with star pen 24 m.
🇸🇾 Syria · Earthwork
Jebel Bishri Kites
Neolithic-Chalcolithic to Early Bronze · Bishri plateau Neolithic to Early Bronze pastoralists
28 limestone kite traps (4700-3600 BCE) on Jebel Bishri escarpment above the Euphrates, with plaster-lined pits later reused.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Majes-Sihuas Valley Pampa Geoglyphs (Quilcapampa)
Middle Horizon (Wari expansion) with Early Horizon pathways · Wari / Majes rock-art / Sihuas valley agro-pastoral
Large hill-figure and circle geoglyph field on the inter-valley pampa between Río Majes and Río Sihuas (1,450 m), centered near Quilcapampa Wari town (Middle Horizon). Jennings et al.
🇸🇾 Syria · Earthwork
Harraat al-Harra Desert Kites
Neolithic to Chalcolithic, Badia Neolithic · Harra Neolithic hunters
34 basalt kite traps (4800-3200 BCE) on Harraat al-Harra plateau SE of Damascus, northwestern anchor of mega-kite province.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Khaybar West Pendant & Mustatil Super-Field (Harrat Khaybar fringe)
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (Neolithic pastoral to Early Bronze Wadi Sawawin) · Arabian Neolithic (Khaybar Neolithic pastoralists, Wadi Sawawin)
45 mustatils + 80 pendants + 12 kites (5200–3000 BCE) — densest Harrat Khaybar ritual-hunting palimpsest.