🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Hydraulic System at North
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Hydraulic System at North in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Moche (100–800 CE) hydraulic attributed to Moche culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park
Fort Walton Mississippian 1050–1500 CE · Fort Walton (Apalachee) Mississippian
Mississippian chiefdom capital on Lake Jackson with 11 m platform mound and famed repoussé copper plates.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar del Sur Northeast Loma Geoglyphs (Loma Alta Terrace)
Middle Formative (400 BCE–400 CE) · Formative Atacama
Northeast loma terrace (2,320 m) 6 km NE of salar, with 180° view of central playa isle geoglyphs. Figures: 28-m stepped pyramid, 35-m ‘comb’ and 14-m camelid.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ojiyana (Ojhiyana)
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas (c.3000–1500 BCE) · Ahar-Banas
Hill-slope Ahar-Banas terraced village on Aravalli granite above Beawar — unique upland adaptation.
🇱🇾 Libya · Hillfort
Well Hillfort
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Well Hillfort in Fezzan, Libya is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) hillfort attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Castlerigg Stone Circle
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Cumbria / Langdale axe network
Late Neolithic flattened circle of 38 stones near Keswick with rectangular eastern enclosure and fells panorama.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Kizil Central Cave — Kuqa Muzat River Diamond Pattern Sanctuary
Eastern Han to Tang (200 – 800 CE) · Tocharian Buddhist Kucha with Gandhara influence
Central 30–80 of 339 Kizil caves with 3.2 m diamond-vault Buddha of Tocharian Kucha 3rd–8th c.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Rock Hawk Effigy Mound
Woodland–Archaic 1000 BCE–1000 CE · Woodland peoples
30-m quartz hawk effigy on Oconee River, paired with Rock Eagle.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Hovgården on Adelsö – Birka Royal Estate
Vendel Period to Middle Ages (c.600–1279 CE) · Scandinavian Viking Age to Medieval
Royal estate on Adelsö opposite Birka, with thing mound (Skansberget), harbour, cemetery and ruins of Magnus Ladulås' brick palace Alsnö Hus (1279).
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Nebelivka
Trypillia B2–C1 · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-site (approx 4100–3600 BCE, 260–300 ha, 1,000+ mapped houses) renowned for the burnt temple mega-structure (60×20 m, 1,200 m²) with seven altars, painted vessels, and a clay…
🇺🇸 United States · Necropolis
Syke-Bagh Necropolis
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Syke-Bagh Necropolis in Ohio, United States is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) necropolis attributed to Harappan culture.
🇵🇱 Poland · Fortified settlement
Wiślica Early Medieval Stronghold
Great Moravian to Piast (9th–12th century) · Vistulan / Piast Poland
Vistulan tribal hillfort and Piast stronghold at Wiślica on Nida (4 ha) with massive 9th c baptismal basin (4.5 m oval plastered tub debated as Great Moravian Methodius mission 880) under later…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tilbeşar Höyük
Neolithic–Iron (6000–600 BCE) · Halaf to Neo-Hittite
Neolithic–Iron (6000–600 BCE) Halaf to Neo-Hittite tell at Gaziantep Province – citadel on aleppo–carchemish road (dims Mound 25 m high, lower town 10 ha).
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Daura Kusugu Pondfield (Bayajida Well)
Medieval Hausa (Bakwai period, 9th–15th c. CE) · Hausa (Daura, Hausa Bakwai)
Sacred pondfield where Bayajida slew snake Sarki (Daura origin).
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Jaketown Site
Late Archaic–Poverty Point ca. 1700–1500 BCE · Poverty Point culture (Jaketown phase)
8-mound Poverty Point–related center, 1700–1500 BCE.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Tumulus
Ditch Stone Tumulus
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Ditch Stone Tumulus in Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) tumulus attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Earthwork
Torsburgen Hillfort (Gotland)
Early Iron Age to Viking Age (c.300 BCE–1100 CE) · Gotlandic Iron Age / Viking Age
Largest hillfort in Scandinavia at 1.2 km² plateau fortified by 2 km limestone wall across the narrow neck of a 67 m high limestone plateau.
🇨🇳 China · Tumulus
West Aber Burial Mound
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
West Aber Burial Mound in Henan, China is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) tumulus attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇳🇪 Niger · Rock art
Djado Plateau Rock Art
Neolithic to Medieval (6000 BCE–1500 CE) · Saharan pastoralists / Libyco-Berber / Kanem
Djado Plateau is an isolated sandstone cuesta 1,000 m² in Ténéré with rock art 6000 BCE–1000 CE, engraved cattle, giraffe and Libyco-Berber inscriptions in shelters, plus ruined ksar Djado fortress…
🇨🇦 Canada · Necropolis
Necropolis of Kala
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Necropolis of Kala in British Columbia, Canada is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) necropolis attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Rupnagar (Ropar)
Harappan to Medieval (c.3300 BCE–16th century CE) · Harappan → PGW → NBPW → Kushan → Gupta
First post-Independence Harappan excavation (1953) — 5000-year sequence from Harappan to medieval Punjab.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Talianki
Trypillia C1 (Cucuteni B2) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia mega-site phenomenon)
Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-settlement (c.3850–3700 BCE, 450 ha, perhaps 15,000 inhabitants) — largest city in Europe at that time, larger than Uruk contemporary — with concentric burnt houses (2,700…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Wijiji (Chaco Canyon)
Pueblo III; late McElmo revival · Mesa Verde McElmo → Chaco East Wash
Late McElmo eastern great house (30 rooms, 1105–1115 CE) at Chaco Wash narrows — single-wing McElmo revival after main canyon collapse, with check dams.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Temple complex
Akhan Kot? Actually Akhnoor? Let's use Akhnur? Replace: Bhamala Stupa Extension — Taxila West
Kushan to Hindu Shahi (150 BCE–1000 CE) Gandhara · Gandhara Buddhist (Kushan)
Akhan Kot? Actually Akhnoor? Let's use Akhnur? Replace: Bhamala Stupa Extension — Taxila West in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is a Kushan to Hindu Shahi (150 BCE–1000 CE) Gandhara temple-complex…