🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Angel Mounds State Historic Site
Mississippian 1000–1450 CE · Mississippian (Angel phase)
42 ha Mississippian walled town 1000–1450 CE.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Dowth
Neolithic · Boyne Valley Neolithic
Westernmost of three great Brú na Bóinne tombs, 85 m diameter, two passages and souterrain. Less restored, preserving original form. Associated winter sunset alignment.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Tzintzuntzan Archaeological Zone (Las Yácatas)
Late Postclassic 1350–1530 CE · Purépecha (Tarascan)
Five yácatas on 425 m platform, Tarascan capital 1350–1530 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Maeshowe Chambered Cairn
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Finest Orkney chambered cairn: 36 m mound, long passage, corbelled chamber. Midwinter sunset illuminates chamber. Bears 12th-century Viking runic inscriptions (>30).
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Tremper Mound and Earthwork
Hopewell 100–500 CE · Hopewell tradition
Effigy mound with 136 portrait pipes, Hopewell 100–300 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ring of Brodgar
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Massive henge and stone circle 104 m diameter, originally 60 stones (36 surviving). Enclosed by rock-cut ditch up to 10 m wide. Core of Heart of Neolithic Orkney.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Pikillacta Archaeological Park (Huari)
Wari Middle Horizon 550–800 CE · Wari (Huari Empire)
50 ha Wari grid city 12 m walls 550–700 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Standing Stones of Stenness
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Four surviving uprights of oval henge circle originally 12 stones up to 5.7 m tall on promontory between lochs. One of earliest henges in Britain (c.3100 BCE).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Cairn of Get
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Orkney-Cromarty chambered cairn on Rousay flank, excavated by Henshall, with stalled chamber and partition slabs, containing Neolithic human bone and pottery.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Gran Pajatén Archaeological Zone
Chachapoya 800–1532 CE · Chachapoya
Chachapoya cloud-forest citadel slate-mosaic friezes, UNESCO 548.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Barnenez Passage Mound Finistère — Timestep Variant
Early Neolithic (4800–4300 BCE) · Barnenez (Cerny / VSG)
Brittany's great passage-mound on Kernéléhen peninsula, 11 dolmens in two phases, oldest chamber C1 4850 BCE, with Neolithic engravings and quartz façade.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
El Brujo Archaeological Complex (Huaca Cao Viejo / Lady of Cao)
Moche Early Intermediate 100 BCE–800 CE · Moche (Chicama Valley)
Moche pyramid 30 m, Lady of Cao tomb 400 CE proving queenship.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Vilcabamba — Espíritu Pampa (Last Capital of the Inca)
Wari → Inca → Neo-Inca 1200–1572 CE · Neo-Inca (Manco Inca)
Last Neo-Inca capital 1536–1572, 12 ha jungle city.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Malinalco Archaeological Zone
Aztec Late Postclassic 1476–1501 CE · Aztec (Mexica)
Rock-cut Cuauhcalli temple 1501 CE, eagle-warrior initiation.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Garagay Archaeological Complex — Lima Temple with Polychrome Reliefs
Initial–Early Horizon 1400–500 BCE · Central coast Chavínoid
U-shaped temple 23 m polychrome reliefs 1400–500 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
High Bank Works
Hopewell Middle Woodland 100–400 CE · Hopewell tradition
Circle-octagon pair 320 m circle, UNESCO 2023.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Fort Hill Earthwork and Nature Preserve
Hopewell Middle Woodland 100–400 CE · Hopewell tradition
14.6 ha hilltop enclosure 2.4 km wall, 33 gateways.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Castillo de Huarmey — Wari Imperial Mausoleum
Wari Middle Horizon 600–1000 CE · Wari (Huari imperial)
Wari mausoleum 64 tombs gold queens 600–800 CE, intact 2012.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Kotosh Archaeological Site — Temple of the Crossed Hands
Late Archaic–Initial 2300–1200 BCE · Kotosh–Mito tradition
Crossed Hands temple 1800 BCE, 10 superimposed Mito temples.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Bandurria Archaeological Site (Huacho)
Late Archaic 3550–2500 BCE · Norte Chico (Caral)
Caral network city 54 ha 3550–2500 BCE, 10 plazas.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Calixtlahuaca Archaeological Zone
Late Postclassic 1116–1520 CE · Matlatzinca → Aztec
Round Temple of Ehécatl 27 m, Matlatzinca 1116–1476 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Hovenweep National Monument
Pueblo III 1200–1300 CE · Ancestral Puebloan
Six Pueblo tower villages 1200–1300 CE, Square Tower.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Mayapán Archaeological Zone
Maya Postclassic 1220–1440 CE · Maya (Cocom–League)
Walled capital 9 km wall, 4000 structures, League 1220–1440 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Aztalan State Park
Mississippian 1000–1250 CE · Mississippian (Cahokian)
Northernmost Mississippian walled town 1000–1250 CE.