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World Heritage places tagged “mound”

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork

Silbury Hill — Avebury Landscape

Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Wessex

Largest prehistoric artificial mound in Europe (c. 2400 BCE), 39.3 m high conical chalk mound in Avebury World Heritage Site.

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🇺🇸 United States · Mound

Poverty Point

Poverty Point culture

prehistoric site of the Poverty Point culture in northeastern Louisiana, United States

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🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Poverty Point (Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point)

Late Archaic 1700–1100 BCE (peak 1500–1200 BCE) · Poverty Point culture

Late Archaic earthwork complex (1700–1100 BCE) with six concentric C-shaped ridges (1.2 km outer diameter) and six mounds, including 22 m-high Mound A – one of largest Archaic earthworks in North…