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Mounds tagged “dam”

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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city

Peñasco Blanco — Chaco Canyon Outer Great House West

Pueblo II–III (1050–1140 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo (Chacoan)

Cliff-point Great House 1050 CE — oval arc & solstice pictograph.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Sarissa

Hittite (c.1600–1180 BCE; peak 1500–1200 as weather-god city) · Hittite (Empire, weather-god cult)

Sarissa (Kuşaklı) on a windswept 1600-m ridge is the Hittite sacred city of the weather-god — planned Hittite city with 2-km wall, dam and granary, built under...