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🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Iron Age · Iron Age
Iron Age megalithic at Haryana.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Neolithic agro-pastoral (2000–500 BCE Tichitt Tradition) · Tichitt Tradition (Soninke antecedent, Ghana Empire ancestor)
Tichitt excavated by Munson 1971, 400 Dhar sites 2000–500 BCE, Ghana Empire antecedent, UNESCO tentative.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–600 CE) · Lycian → Roman
Lycian cliff city excavated by Bayburtluoğlu 1971–, tombs of Arykanda princes and basilica with mosaics.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Pyramid
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite pyramid at Orkney.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Kofun (early 5th c. CE) · Yamato
Mozu Itasuke excavated periphery 1980s, scallop shape intermediate between round and keyhole, moat eels.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic (300 BCE) · Olba Teukrid
Olba acropolis cliff excavated by Keil & Wilhelm 1910s, linked to Diokaisareia valley 4 km via aqueduct.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Middle to Late Bronze Age (1500–500 BCE) · Nuragic
Barumini type-site excavated by Lilliu 1949–56, with Iron Age village over Bronze Age bastion, restored.
🇮🇳 India · Geoglyph
Classical · Classical
Classical geoglyph at Haryana.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Harappan · Harappan
Harappan megalithic at Aomori.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon ancient-city at Haryana.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200–2300 BCE) · Grooved Ware
Major Ness excavated by Card 2004–, Grooved Ware centre linking Stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Tiwa Pueblo (1000–present; North House c.1450) · Tiwa Pueblo (Taos) continuously occupied
Taos Pueblo occupied 1000–, UNESCO 1992, 5-storey North House 1450, Taos Revolt 1680 mission destroyed.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Iron (3000–500 BCE) · Northwest Syrian (Ebla-Mari-Amuq)
Orontes survey and Dornemann 1983–99 deep sounding revealing 5000 years without hiatus to Early Bronze.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Classical · Classical
Classical geoglyph at Huanuco.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Classical · Classical
Classical rock-art at Huanuco.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic shaft-tomb tradition to Postclassic (400 BCE–400 CE shafts; pyramid 700–900 CE Aztatlán) · Western Mexico Shaft Tomb → Aztatlán (Teuchitlán borrowing)
Ixtlán excavated by Corona Núñez 1940s, circular shaft tomb pyramid link to Teuchitlán guachimontones.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic rock-art at Huanuco.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Paquimé Phase (1200–1400 CE) Medio period · Casas Grandes (Paquimé) Mogollon
Chihuahua Paquimé excavated by Di Peso 1958–61, Medio period 1200–1400, macaw pens and cast turquoise.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Idrisid to Almoravid (c. 800–1071 CE capital before Marrakech 1071) · Masmuda Berber Almoravid origins (Abu Bakr, Yusuf ibn Tashfin)
Aghmat excavated by Messier 2000s, Mu'tamid ibn Abbad exile tomb 1095, Almoravid origin stratigraphy.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Great Basin archaic to Numic (12000 BCE–1850 CE rock; peak 4000–1000 BCE Coso Representational) · Great Basin Coso (Northern Uto-Aztecan?) predecessors
China Lake Coso excavated by Grant & Farley 1960s, UCLA bighorn sheep style 4000 BCE, navy protected.
🇮🇳 India · Geoglyph
Harappan · Harappan
Harappan geoglyph at Haryana.
🇨🇳 China · Tumulus
Koguryo/Goguryeo (3rd–5th c. CE c. 400 CE) · Goguryeo/Koguryo Korean-Chinese
Jilin Koguryo pyramid excavated 1900, tomb of General as tradition, UNESCO 2004 Koguryo cross-border.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan (700–300 BCE Napatan kings → early Meroitic) · Kushite Napatan
Nuri excavated by Reisner 1917 and Dunham, 21 kings, Taharqa 690–664 BCE, vaulted chamber 10 m shaft.
