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🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Neolithic (PPNB to Late Neolithic) · Southern Jordan Neolithic
Southernmost Jordanian kite field on the Karak limestone plateau (620 m, 31°03′N 35°45′E) above Wadi al-Hasa gorge (tributary of Mujib).
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze (Kelteminar-Bozashy) · Ustyurt steppe Kelteminar
Central Asian steppe-kite province on the Ustyurt chalk plateau (160 m, 44°12′N 54°12′E) in the 40 m deep Karynzharyk karst depression (Ustyurt Biosphere).
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Early Holocene moist phase (Neolithic) · Hijaz Neolithic lava-field hunters
Volcanic-field kites (1,100 m, 27°24′N 37°16′E) of the Harrat ar-Rahah-'Uwayrid cluster (Global Volcanism Program 27.408N 37.279E, 1700 m cluster).
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Bronze Age → Early Iron Age 1100–500 BCE Gotland · Nordic Bronze Age Gotlandic (Gotland stone-ship tradition)
Gannarve — Gotland stone ship (skeppssättning) Late Bronze–Early Iron Age (c.1100–500 BCE) on Gannarve farm ridge 4 km NE Sandhamn, Fröjel, Gotland west coast, 25 km south Visby.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Fortress
Migration Period → Vendel 400–800 Gotland · Gotlandic Iron Age (Gutar, East Scandinavian)
Stavgard — Gotlandic ringfort (Migrations–Vendel Period 400–800 CE, with Iron Age reuse) on Stavgard farm ridge, Burs parish, southeastern Gotland, 35 km southeast Visby.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Archaic to Hellenistic (600–250 BCE) · Greek / Hellenistic
Abandoned c.250 BCE lagoon promontory synoecized to Berenice, preserved smash floors under sabkha.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Iron Age (Celtic) · Pre-Christian Celtic / Iron Age Ireland
Iron Age janus idols (1.2 m double-headed) in Boa Island cemetery, Lough Erne — most enigmatic Celtic stones in Ireland.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age · Shetland Bronze Age
Fetlar's 11-stone circle (~9 m) on moorland ridge — one of Shetland's few stone circles.
🇸🇰 Slovakia · Temple complex
Great Moravian (late 9th century, c.850–900) · Great Moravian Slavic
The oldest standing church in Slovakia (and possibly in Central Europe north of Danube) — small pre-Romanesque St. Margaret at Kopčany on the Morava floodplain opposite Mikulčice (5 km).
🇱🇻 Latvia · Fortress
Medieval (1205–1701) · Latgalian then Livonian Order
Episcopal stone castle at Koknese island fortress at confluence of Daugava and Pērse (Latgalian hillfort predecessor Kukonoyse), founded 1205 by Bishop Albert after grant by King Vetseke of Koknese,…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Unexcavated long barrow southeast of Silbury Hill, 100 m longest in Avebury group, landmark within WHS.
🇱🇹 Lithuania · Fortress
Medieval (1361–1441) · Grand Duchy of Lithuania / Teutonic
Oldest brick castle in Lithuania (1361) at strategic Nemunas–Neris island, first to use brick to resist Teutonic cannon; destroyed 1362 by Teutonic Knights (3-week siege), rebuilt by Vytautas 1409 as…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Miller culture 100–600 CE · Miller (Woodland)
Isolated conical mound 25 ft/7.6 m high, 70 ft/21 m diameter, tallest extant Woodland mound in north Mississippi.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Garamantian to Islamic (5th c. BCE–present) · Garamantian / Berber / Islamic
Herodotean palm grove oasis with foggaras and ksour granaries (200 chambers).
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Roman (Augustan–7th c. CE) · Roman (Tripolitania)
Syrtic frontier fort at Bu Grada lagoon terminus of limes road.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Kebbi Empire (15th–18th c.) · Kebbi / Zamfarawa
Chain of 4 hilltop outlier forts with 1.5 km walls each protecting Surame fields.
