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Glades IIIb–Calusa 500–1500 CE · Glades Calusa
Calusa Court of the Pile Dwellers: waterlogged painted wood Cat statuette, masks and netting 500–1500 CE.
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🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Glades IIIb–Calusa 500–1500 CE · Glades Calusa
Calusa Court of the Pile Dwellers: waterlogged painted wood Cat statuette, masks and netting 500–1500 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chaco Late Bonito to Post-Chaco San Juan · Chaco (ancestral Pueblo) → Mesa Verde–San Juan reoccupation
Isolated Chacoan great house outlier (c.1050–1110 CE core, Late Pueblo II, Classic Bonito phase + San Juan reoccupation c.1150) 26 km SW of Chaco proper — closest great house to Chaco that captures…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Plaquemine to Historic Natchez (1200–1730 CE) · Plaquemine / Natchez (Muskogean)
Natchez historic capital (1200–1730 CE) — 3 Plaquemine mounds and plaza where French witnessed 1725 sacrifice.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Chavín de Huántar Plaza South in Colorado Plateau, United States is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo II-III; Chacoan florescence then McElmo Mesa Verde · Chacoan Ancestral Puebloans (Homools? Pueblo I-III) → McElmo Mesa Verde
Chaco’s second city (400 rooms, D-shaped, 1010–1110 CE) with colonnade and great kiva — McElmo-renovated great house, 3 storeys high on north Chaco mesa.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chaco Bonito to Post-Chaco (Late Pueblo II–III) · Chaco (ancestral Pueblo) → post-Chaco San Juan
Southeasternmost Chaco great house outlier (c.1050–1120 CE, Bonito II–III) on Pintado Mesa overlooking Rio Chaco headwater — eastern gate of Chaco world.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo I-III; early Bonito · Chacoan pioneer (Pueblo I) → classic Bonito
Earliest canyon great house (800–930 CE) at eastern mouth — L-shaped early Bonito 80-room great house with great kiva, petroglyphs and Fajada alignment, Chaco genesis type.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Monte Albán Terrace South in Colorado Plateau, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Miller culture contemporary with Hopewell 1–400 CE · Miller (Hopewell-influenced eastern Woodland); Hopewell
Eight low dome mounds (2–6 ft high) at Natchez Trace Milepost 286.7, best-preserved Middle Woodland mound group in northeast Mississippi.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pueblo IV (Ancestral Puebloan post-Mesa Verde, 1285–1400 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Hopi ancestor — Homolovi Cluster)
Homolovi I (Homolovi State Park — Sunset Mesa Pueblo) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Arizona, Navajo County, Winslow–Little Colorado, Homolovi State Park, United States — Largest Homolovi…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Late Woodland – Early Mississippian (c.700–1200 CE) Miller III – Mississippian · Late Woodland – Baytown – Early Mississippian
Teoc Creek is a small Late Woodland to Early Mississippian mound-hamlet on Teoc Creek in Carroll County, Mississippi, in the upper Yazoo Basin.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Formative to Mississippian (1500 BCE–1500 CE) · Woodland–Mississippian
Spiro Mound Craig Hollow Chamber in Oklahoma, Spiro, United States is a Formative to Mississippian (1500 BCE–1500 CE) earthwork attributed to Woodland–Mississippian.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Formative to Mississippian (1500 BCE–1500 CE) · Woodland–Mississippian
Etowah Mound C Burial 57 in Georgia, Cartersville, United States is a Formative to Mississippian (1500 BCE–1500 CE) earthwork attributed to Woodland–Mississippian.
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
Early Mississippian (Stirling antecedent) · Cahokia Mississippian with Oneota interaction
Northernmost Cahokia-affiliated platform mounds (1050–1100 CE) on Mississippi bluffs — 500-km colony.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chacoan to Post-Chaco (Late Pueblo II to III) · Chaco Culture → Mesa Verde–San Juan (ancestral Pueblo)
Northern Chaco great-house outlier (c.1090–1280 CE) — 300-room 2-storey sandstone Chacoan great house built 1090 CE by Chaco Canyon elite as toll/ grain colony on San Juan, then reoccupied 1125–1280…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Colonial to Classic (600–1450 CE) · Hohokam (Salt River)
Salt River Hohokam platform-mound barrio town (c.600–1450 CE, Colonial to Classic) now buried under central Phoenix Encanto — sister to Pueblo Grande 5 km east, controlling La Ciudad Canal (HoHo…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1100–1450 CE) · Hohokam Classic Period (Pueblo Grande region)
Mesa Grande Hohokam Platform Mound Extension is the eastern lower terrace of Mesa Grande Ruin — the largest extant Hohokam platform mound in the Salt River Valley, within modern Mesa.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian (Shiloh phase, 1000–1350 CE) · Mississippian (Western Tennessee)
Fortified Mississippian town (1000–1350 CE) with 7 mounds and 2 km palisade on Tennessee River bluff, Shiloh.
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
Mississippian (Moundville–Thruston) · Mississippian (Middle Cumberland)
Fortified Cumberland River town (1000–1400 CE) with 5 mounds and richest Mississippian stone statuary in Middle TN.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Pioneer to Classic (300 BCE–1450 CE) · Hohokam (Sonoran Desert farmers)
Type-site and capital of Hohokam Culture (c.300 BCE–1450 CE, Pioneer to Classic) — 2 km² canal-irrigated village with 2 ballcourts, platform mounds, and 100 km of canals off Gila River irrigating…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Lower Chaco Canyon Necropolis B — Chaco Canyon (55-30) at Chaco Canyon, United States is a Medieval (regional) earthwork of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
Mississippian (Jonathan Creek phase) · Mississippian (Western Kentucky)
Western KY Mississippian village (1200–1450 CE) — 7 platform mounds on Tennessee River near Aurora.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Classic (1150–1450 CE) · Hohokam (Tucson / Marana community)
Classic Hohokam platform 1150 CE — ballcourt & 150 m terrace rock-pile fields (Fish).
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
St Johns IIc–Mississippian 1050–1562 CE (midden 3000 BCE onward) · St Johns (Timucua ancestors)
St Johns platform mound 6.7 m with 300 m causeway and 6000-year midden, contacted 1562 by French.