🇵🇪 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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca Huallamarca
Early Intermediate Lima pyramid (300–600 CE), Middle Horizon Wari cemetery (600–800 CE), Late Intermediate Ychsma/Inca shrine (1000–1500 CE) · Lima / Wari / Ychsma–Inca (triple palimpsest)
Triple-use huaca in San Isidro central Lima: truncated adobe pyramid 85×65 m 25 m high (Lima culture 300–600 CE sand-and-adobe) over Preceramic midden, with Middle Horizon Wari cemetery (600–800 CE)…
🇧🇿 Belize · Pyramid
Lamanai — High Temple Pyramid (Orange Walk District, Belize)
Preclassic to Contact Period (1500 BCE–1675 CE) · Maya (Lamanai polity, Yucatec–Mopan)
Continuous 3000-year Maya city (1500 BCE–1675 CE) surviving Classic collapse into Spanish contact, on 1 km lagoon shore.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca Mateo Salado — Lima Five-Pyramid Complex
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon — Ychsma (1100–1450 CE) then Inca (1450–1532 CE) · Ychsma (Ichma) then Inca
Island of five pyramids in dense Breña–Cercado between avenues Mariano Cornejo and Tingo María, Lima’s most important Ichma centre later co-opted as Inca provincial capital of the Chillón–Rimac…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site
Mississippian 1050–1400 CE (Kincaid phase) · Mississippian (Caborn-Welborn)
19-mound Mississippian town on Ohio River, 1050–1400 CE.
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient city
Caracol
Preclassic 1200 BCE–900 CE (peak Late Classic 562–680, Star-War defeat of Tikal) · Maya (Classic lowland; ally of Calakmul vs Tikal; later independent kingdom Uxwitzá)
Largest Maya city in Belize and greater Tikal rival: 200 km² settlement (70 sq mi mapped), Caana (“Sky Palace”) pyramid 43 m high – tallest man-made structure in Belize – with corner palaces, 160+…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Garagay Polychrome Pyramid
Formative Period (Cupisnique-Chavín / Manchay-Chavínoid, 1500–600 BCE, peak 1300–1000 BCE) · Chavínoid (Cupisnique/Chavín, Central Coast)
Chavínoid ceremonial center (Cupisnique-Chavín 1500–600 BCE, peak 1200 BCE) on north bank Rímac: U-shaped complex with central pyramid 85×60 m 25 m high in three construction phases, lateral…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Garagay Polychrome Pyramid — Lima
Formative, c.1400-500 BCE (Early Horizon, Cupisnique–Chavín) · Andean (Cupisnique / Chavín)
Garagay in San Martín de Porres district, Lima: three-platform U-temple (central pyramid 28 m high, 100×80 m) with sunken circular court, atrium with polychrome painted reliefs (3.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca La Florida Baja Secondary
Initial Period Manchay 1700–900 BCE, pre-Chavín U-shaped temple · Manchay (Rímac-Lurín U-shaped temple tradition)
Southern secondary platform of Huaca La Florida (1700 BCE), largest adobe U-shaped temple in Rímac valley: main pyramid 170×100 m 17 m high with central stair to atrium; secondary south arm 60 m long…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
El Paraíso, Peru
El Paraíso (Spanish pronunciation: [el paɾaˈiso], "The Paradise") or Chuquitanta (Quechua chuqui lance or metal, tanta bread) are the moderns names of a Late Preceramic (3500–1800 BC) archaeological…
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient city
Altun Ha
Preclassic 900 BCE–1000 CE (plazas 200–900 CE; jade tomb early 300 CE) · Maya (northern coastal Belize, Altun Ha polity, Lowland–Caribbean zone)
Coastal-plain trade port city controlling Caribbean shell, salt and jade routes near Rockstone Pond wetlands: twin Temple of the Masonry Altars (B4, 16 m high) with three altar superstructures and…