🇯🇴 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.
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🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
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
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
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
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
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
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 Molle to Copiapó Culture · Copiapó Atacameño–Diaguita caravaneers
Dune-plinth geoglyphs south of Copiapó: 14 trench-revetted figures resisting barchan burial.
🇮🇱 Israel · Geoglyph
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
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
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
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
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
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.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate (Cabza) · Lluta–Azapa agriculturalists
Mid-Lluta terrace geoglyphs between Poconchile and Molinos: 27 figures on fluvial benches below Alto Ramírez.
🇸🇾 Syria · Earthwork
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.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Early to Late Pre-Columbian (400 BCE – 1000 CE) · Acre geoglyph culture / Arawak
Western Ramal triple geoglyph at Capixaba — 3× 120 m squares with 700 m avenue at –10.05S.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate Wari-Chuquibamba · Wari-influenced Chuquibamba/Majes
60+ volcanic-pavement geoglyphs (600-1200 CE) beside Toro Muerto petroglyphs, Majes Valley ritual plateau.
🇮🇱 Israel · Earthwork
Late Neolithic Timnian to Early Bronze, plus Nabataean · Negev Timnian hunter-herders; Nabataean farmers
11 flint desert kites (4100-2900 BCE) on Negev plateau rim above Ramon Crater, later reused by Nabataean wine-presses.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Late Horizon (Inca Imperial) · Inca (Quechua)
High-altitude (3,400 m) radial sacred geography of the Inca capital: 41 ceque lines radiating from Coricancha/Qorikancha to huaca shrines bounding Sacsayhuamán pampa and Chinchaysuyo suyu.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate (Pica–Tarapacá) · Pica–Tarapacá oasis farmers
Pampa between Pica and Matilla: 24 rhombus and avenue figures aligned to puquio water galleries.
🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Late Prehistoric (Patayan) to Historic · Mojave (Aha Makav) / Quechan
18-acre windrow maze (800–1200 CE) in Mojave Valley — 600-m herringbone pale strips.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Geoglyph
Formative (Early Formative to Upano contemporary) · Cóndor cloud-forest formative (pre-Mayo-Chinchipe)
Tepui-top forest geoglyphs on the Cordillera del Cóndor divide (1,250 m, 3°23′34″S 78°06′49″W per Ichigkat Muja National Park centre), bridging Ecuador and Peru Amazon headwaters: Rio Cenepa (Peru)…
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Archaic to Formative (Tarapacá) · Alta Ramírez–Tarapacá caravan
South-fan geoglyphs at Salar de Huasco: 18 camelid/avenue figures on altiplano pavement at 3,815 m.