🇲🇽 Mexico · Rock art
Watson Brake Mound — Veracruz — watson-brake
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Watson Brake Mound in Veracruz, Mexico is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) rock art attributed to Iron Age culture.
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🇲🇽 Mexico · Rock art
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Watson Brake Mound in Veracruz, Mexico is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) rock art attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Workshop Debris East in Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) tell attributed to Classical culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Zawyet Pyramid North in Cholula, Mexico is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) tumulus attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Late Moche / Transitional (600–800 CE) to Wari influence · Late Moche → Wari (transitional Moche V to coastal Wari)
Moche transition Galindo excavated by Bawden 1980s, Wari presence after Moche southern collapse.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Earthwork
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Harrah Kite Chain South in Lapland, Sweden is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Silo Group South in Dnieper, Ukraine is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) tell attributed to Classical culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Late Bronze Age to Iron Age (1500–700 BCE) · Canaanite / Aramean / Israelite
Tell Deir Alla — Balaam Inscription in Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Late Bronze Age to Iron Age (1500–700 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Aramean / Israelite.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Fortress
Late Integration to Inca (1400–1532 CE) · Quitu–Cara / Inca
Rumicucho Pucará — Quito in Pichincha Province, Ecuador is a Late Integration to Inca (1400–1532 CE) fortress attributed to Quitu–Cara / Inca.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Hassuna–Samarra (6000–5000 BCE) Samarra culture · Samarra culture (Tell Sawwan)
Tell es-Sawwan — Samarra Bowl Village in Salah ad-Din, Iraq is a Hassuna–Samarra (6000–5000 BCE) Samarra culture tell attributed to Samarra culture (Tell Sawwan).
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Kushan to Sasanian (1st–5th century CE) · Kushan → Sasanian Kidarites
Kushan–Sasanian delta city in Surkhandarya — 15 ha shahristan mapped by multispectral remote sensing.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
Formative to Integration (1500 BCE–1532 CE) · Machalilla to Manteño / Valdivia predecessor
Agua Blanca — Machalilla / Manteño spa in Manabí Province, Ecuador is a Formative to Integration (1500 BCE–1532 CE) ancient-city attributed to Machalilla to Manteño / Valdivia predecessor.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic Norte Chico Bandurria 4000–2000 BCE (3500 BCE main) · Norte Chico (Bandurria, Preceramic)
Northern mound at Bandurria 4 km south of Huacho on Huaura coastal plain: flat-topped platform 12 m high 90×70 m with sunken circular plaza 15 m diameter on summit, contemporaneous with Caral-Supe.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Angkor Wat period (12th c. CE) · Khmer (Suryavarman II)
Beng Mealea — Outer Eastern Enclosure in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia is a Angkor Wat period (12th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Khmer (Suryavarman II).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Neolithic tor enclosure (3700 BCE) and Iron Age hillfort (600 BCE) · Cornish Neolithic & Iron Age
Carn Brea Hillfort — Redruth in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Neolithic tor enclosure (3700 BCE) and Iron Age hillfort (600 BCE) hillfort attributed to Cornish Neolithic & Iron Age.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (3500 BCE), collapsed 1815 re-erected · Cornish Neolithic
Lanyon Quoit — Madron in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic (3500 BCE), collapsed 1815 re-erected megalithic attributed to Cornish Neolithic.
🇮🇱 Israel · Hydraulic works
Nabataean to Byzantine (100 BCE–600 CE) · Nabataean–Christian monks
Ein Avdat — Nabataean Canyon Dam and Monastery in Southern District, Israel is a Nabataean to Byzantine (100 BCE–600 CE) hydraulic attributed to Nabataean–Christian monks.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Roman (Hadrian to Diocletian) · Roman (Numidia, Fossatum)
Fossatum Africae southern rampart and ditch bastion south of Gemellae.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Fortress
Urartian (c.685–590 BCE Rusa II) · Urartu → post-Urartian Scythian
Huge fortress (300 × 200 m) with massive ashlar rampart, beer brewery vats, inscribed bronze shields, Teisheba tower and a lower town archive of cattle tribute.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Jezirah I–III (c.3000–2200 BCE) · Ninevite-5 → Early Dynastic Jezirah
30-ha EB town with nine-phase Ninevite-5 through ED III defensive wall, gate with corbel vault, “Animal House” kitchen with fauna scatters, eye-idol temple and Soviet-Polish plan 7 stratified ED…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Formative to Early Classic 350 BCE–600 CE · Maya (Komchen formative)
Formative slate-ware town before Dzibilchaltun, 350 BCE–600 CE.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Mizpe Zohar Tumulus in Khuzestan, Iran is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) pyramid attributed to Medieval culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tomb
Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (4500–3000 BCE) · Sinai Chalcolithic Nawamis (Tamna?)
Nawamis — Sinai Stone Burial Houses in South Sinai, Egypt is a Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (4500–3000 BCE) tomb attributed to Sinai Chalcolithic Nawamis (Tamna?).
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Punic / Roman (Tripolitana)
Causeway waystation over sebkha between Zarzis and Gigthis.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Nabataean to Byzantine (300 BCE–600 CE) · Nabataean (Aretas)
Avdat Highland Annex — Negev Nabataean Town Extension in Southern District, Israel is a Nabataean to Byzantine (300 BCE–600 CE) ancient-city attributed to Nabataean (Aretas).