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Excavated mounds matching “South America”

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🇵🇪Peru

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“South America”Mounds Excavated Clear all

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🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell

Selevac

Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA

Selevac — buried prehistoric tell/village at Šumadija District.

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🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid

Huaca Prieta — Chicama Preceramic Mound

Preceramic to Initial Period (5500–1800 BCE), Kotosh tradition overlap · Preceramic Chicama (Huaca Prieta–El Paraíso)

Blackish ash mound north of Chicama mouth forming 14 m Junius Bird 1946 stratigraphic cut that defined Andean Preceramic sequence — preceramic houses with stone-lined pits, twined cotton textiles…