🇱🇧 Lebanon · Megalith
Mound Canal Standing Stones
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Mound Canal Standing Stones in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Neolithic culture.
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🇱🇧 Lebanon · Megalith
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Mound Canal Standing Stones in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Megalith
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Jala Salina Dolmen in River Nile State, Sudan is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) megalithic attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Maya Late Classic 450–850 CE · Maya (Mopán / southeastern Petén)
100-m palace Acropolis with throne rooms, 450–850 CE.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Megalith
Iron Age to Early Modern (200–1800 CE) · Ekoi / Ejagham (Legbok)
Ikom Monoliths are >300 basalt volcanic monoliths 1–1.8 m tall arranged in 30 circles (each 6 m Ø with 12 phallic pillars) around Ikom and Alok, dated 1st–18th c CE, uniquely carved with facial…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Pre-Inca to Late Intermediate 400 BCE–1470 CE · Kotosh–Wanka (Yarowilca?)
Puna hilltop predecessor village 144 houses above Huánuco Pampa, 400 BCE–1470 CE.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Megalith
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Terramare Mount Standing Stones in Catamarca, Argentina is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (2500–1500 BCE) · Recumbent builders
Easter Aquhorthies Stone Circle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (2500–1500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Recumbent builders.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Early to Middle Mississippian 1000–1350 CE · Mississippian (Shiloh phase)
Palisaded 8-mound Mississippi River town on Tennessee River, 1000–1350 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Woodland–Archaic 1000 BCE–1000 CE · Woodland peoples
30-m quartz hawk effigy on Oconee River, paired with Rock Eagle.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age · Beaker
Outlier kerb cairn at south end of Kilmartin linear cemetery, Beaker period, with lime-kiln reuse.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb
Massive portal tomb between Hilltown and Castlewellan, granite capstone on cairn with north cist, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb tradition
Tripod portal tomb on drumlin near Castlewellan, County Down, massive capstone on three slender portals, c.3500 BCE.
🇦🇺 Australia · Earthwork
Aboriginal estimated 40,000 BP to historical (continuous); documented >3,000 years · Ngemba / Murrawarri / Ualkay Aboriginal
Estimated 40,000-year-old stone weir complex on Barwon River comprising four traps across 500 m with crescent stone walls 2.5 m high guiding fish into pens, attributed to ancestral creation being…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Atlantic Early Neolithic / Cerny
Necropolis of six tumuli A-F spanning 4800-3000 BCE, including oldest megalithic building in western France.
🇨🇳 China · Archaeological wonder
Ming Dynasty 1505 (Jiajing) rebuild over Northern Qi core · Ming Han Chinese
Best-preserved Ming Great Wall pass (1505) at 1,015 m Juyongguan defile north of Beijing, 7.8 m high crenellated brick-stone ramparts with 19 watchtowers, widened for five horses abreast and beacon…
🇺🇸 United States · Megalith
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Medieval
Lepsius Mound Outlier in Mississippi Valley, United States is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Medieval culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Shetland Neolithic
Heel-shaped chambered cairn on Whalsay, 15 m, part of Yoxie settlement complex, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age (1800 BCE) · Aberdeenshire Bronze Age
Loanhead of Daviot Stone Circle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Early Bronze Age (1800 BCE) megalithic attributed to Aberdeenshire Bronze Age.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Late Neolithic
Forest clearing cup-and-ring cluster on Creag Mhor, 120+ motifs, c.3000 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Etowah Mound A Terrace in Moche Valley, Peru is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Early Neolithic / Beaker
Chambered cairn beside A816 with three Bronze Age cists and 2021 animal carvings discovery.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Recumbent tradition
Sunhoney Stone Circle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age megalithic attributed to Recumbent tradition.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell 100 BCE–500 CE · Hopewell tradition
Hopewell ceremonial village on Ohio/Wabash, 100 BCE–400 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian / Nodena phase 1000–1541 CE · Mississippian Nodena
Moat-walled Mississippian Casqui town visited by de Soto 1541.