🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Hovenweep National Monument
Pueblo III 1200–1300 CE · Ancestral Puebloan
Six Pueblo tower villages 1200–1300 CE, Square Tower.
🇺🇸 United States · Megalith
Bighorn Medicine Wheel
Late Prehistoric 1200–1700 CE · Plains Indians
24 m medicine wheel 28 spokes, solstice alignments.
🇲🇽 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.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Yagul Archaeological Zone
Zapotec Postclassic 1250–1521 CE · Zapotec (Tlacolula valley)
Zapotec hill-fortress Palace Six Patios 1250–1400 CE, UNESCO 2010.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site
Mississippian 1000–1350 CE · Mississippian (Wickliffe phase)
Eight-mound Mississippian town 1000–1350 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Xochicalco Archaeological Zone
Epiclassic 650–900 CE · Epiclassic central Mexican
Fortified hilltop Pyramid of Plumed Serpents, zenith cave, UNESCO 1999.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Crystal River Archaeological State Park
Deptford–Hopewell–Weeden Island 500 BCE–1000 CE · Deptford / Hopewell Gulf Coast
Six mounds 500 BCE–1000 CE with Hopewell copper and stelae.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Casa Malpais Archaeological Park and National Historic Landmark
Mogollon–Ancestral Puebloan 1260–1350 CE · Mogollon–Ancestral Puebloan
60-room basalt Great House 1260–1350 CE, Great Kiva solar calendar.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Marksville State Historic Site
Marksville 0–400 CE · Marksville culture
Semicircular enclosure 530 m wall, Marksville Southern Hopewell 0–400 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Kabah Archaeological Zone
Maya Late Classic 300–1000 CE · Maya (Puuc, Uxmal polity)
Palace of Masks 250 Chaac masks, 18 km sacbé 800–950 CE, UNESCO 1996.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Paramonga Fortress
Chimú – Late Intermediate 1200–1532 CE · Chimú → Inca
Chimú hill-fort four walls, Inca tambo after 1470.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Chimney Rock National Monument
Pueblo II 1076–1125 CE · Chacoan
Chacoan Great House at 2310 m, lunar standstill alignment 1076–1093 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Barnhouse Stone — Standing Monolith Orkney
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware
Outlier monolith 700 m NW of Barnhouse settlement and 800 m from Stones of Stenness, part of Heart of Neolithic Orkney ritual landscape.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Sayil Archaeological Zone
Maya Late Classic 700–1000 CE · Maya (Puuc)
70 m Gran Palacio 90 rooms, Puuc 800–1000 CE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Cairn de Gavrinis Annex — Er Lannic Double Cromlech
Late Neolithic · Morbihan Neolithic
Unique tidal double circle excavated by Le Rouzic, half-submerged at high tide revealing Neolithic sea-level, with horseshoe settings.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Bargat el-Shab Stone Circle — Nabta Playa Satellite
Early to Middle Holocene (7000–5000 BCE ceremonial) · Nabta Playa Neolithic cattle pastoralists (Bunon?)
Bargat excavated by Wendorf & Schild combined archaeological project 1999–, cattle pastoralist ritual with Nabta solstice 45 km.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Chacmultún Archaeological Zone
Maya Classic–Postclassic 300 BCE–1500 CE · Maya (Puuc–Chenés)
Red hill palaces 44 m portico, hematite, Puuc-Toltec 600–1000 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Labná Archaeological Zone
Maya Late Classic 700–1000 CE · Maya (Puuc)
Labná Arch 3 m, 67-room Palace, Puuc 800–1000 CE.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Capocorb Vell — Llucmajor Five Talayots Clumped Plain
Talayotic (1100 BCE early central talayot 9 m; late 800–600 BCE five talayots cluster; Post-Talayotic 500–100 BCE houses) · Talayotic Mallorca's largest 5-talayot clumped village 7000 m²
Capocorb Vell 5 talayots 1100–800 Capocorb mallargest.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Kit's Coty House (Kent, England)
Early Neolithic · Medway Megaliths
Kit's Coty House in Kent, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic attributed to Medway Megaliths culture. Megalithic construction with sarsen; evidence of ceremonial and funerary use.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Almendres Cromlech
Early to Late Neolithic · Alentejo Megalithic
Largest megalithic complex in Iberia and among oldest in Europe: 95 granite menhirs/stones in double oval (E-W aligned), decorated with cup-marks and croziers, set in cork-oak forest near Almendres.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Megalith
Hunebed D17 at Rolde
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker West Group
Large TRB hunebed D17 at Rolde (c. 3400 BCE), 17 m chamber with 8 capstones, one of the intact Drenthe passage graves near Rolde church. Excavated and restored showing pottery and flint assemblage.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Table des Marchands
Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic
Table des Marchands in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic attributed to Armorican Neolithic culture. Megalithic construction with granite; evidence of ceremonial and funerary use.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Karahan Tepe
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Taş Tepeler PPN
Major Taş Tepeler sister site to Göbekli Tepe, ~15 ha with quarries, 266 T-pillars and special building with 11 pillars and phallic/human-head statuary. Reveals 12-site hilltop sanctuary network.