🇦🇷 Argentina · Geoglyph
Sierra Pintada Geoglyphs
Late pre-Hispanic Agrelo-Viluco · Huarpe-Pehuenche
30 austral basalt geoglyphs (900-1500 CE) on Sierra Pintada, southernmost Andean desert lines at 37S.
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🇦🇷 Argentina · Geoglyph
Late pre-Hispanic Agrelo-Viluco · Huarpe-Pehuenche
30 austral basalt geoglyphs (900-1500 CE) on Sierra Pintada, southernmost Andean desert lines at 37S.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Rock art
Early Holocene to late Patagonia (~9300 BCE – 700 CE) · Patagonian hunter-gatherer (Tehuelche ancestors)
Canyon sandstone cave whose walls retain over 800 negative hand stencils made by spraying pigment through bone pipes around hands, interspersed with guanaco hunts, bola weapons and geometric discs.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Geoglyph
Late Holocene (Patagonian hunter–gatherer, Araucanized) · Tehuelche / La Pampa foothill hunter–gatherers
70+ basalt circle and line geoglyphs (800–1600 CE) on La Pampa meseta — Patagonian pampa hunting cosmology.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Ancient city
Late Horizon Inca Imperial (1471–1536 CE, abandoned post-1536) · Inca (Topa Inca – Diaguita / Calchaquí conquest)
Inca provincial capital (1470–1536) in Catamarca, the southernmost planned Inca city in the empire, founded by Topa Inca Yupanqui to govern Calchaquí valley Diaguita conquest: fully orthogonal Inca…
🇦🇷 Argentina · Ancient village
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Village of Dyke Tula in Catamarca, Argentina is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) ancient village attributed to Nazca culture.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Buried city
Late Intermediate to Inca (c.1250 – 1430 CE) · Atacameno / Tastileño / Inca phase
Tastil's northern Quebrada del Toro–Rosario ridge extension — 400 m double wall, terraced fields and chullpa towers linking two valleys 3340 m.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Rock art
Middle–Late Holocene (Pampa–Patagonian transition 5000 BCE–1500 CE) · Patagonian–Cuyo hunter-gatherer → Agrelo (Mendoza)
Basalt boulder field (5,000–500 BP) along Atuel River canyon 60 km south of San Rafael, Mendoza: >800 petroglyphs pecked on 3–5 m basalt columns produced by Pleistocene Atuel volcanics, featuring…
🇦🇷 Argentina · Fortress
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Citadel of Baraka in Catamarca, Argentina is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) fortress attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Hillfort
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Alignment Roxby Camp in Catamarca, Argentina is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) hillfort attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Temple complex
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Classical
Cerro Baúl Wari Outpost in Pampas, Argentina is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) temple complex attributed to Classical culture.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Ancient city
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
São Raimundo Rock Art in Pampas, Argentina is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Buried city
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Classical
Wupatki Pueblo in Pampas, Argentina is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) buried city attributed to Classical culture.