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🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic Hueco (6000 BCE) → Jornada Mogollon (1200 CE) → Tigua/Mescalero pictographs · Jornada Mogollon / Apache Comanche
El Paso huecos excavated by Jackson 1920s, 3000 pictographs, Comanche Cave masks 1000 CE.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Medieval (1221–1227 Amaghu church; 1339 Burteled 2-storey) · Armenian Orbelian princes medieval (Momik architect 1339)
Noravank Momik 1339 church narrow stairs two-storey 13 m with Momik relief self-portrait.
🇱🇾 Libya · Fortified city
Garamantian Early (900–500 BCE pre-Garma) · Early Garamantian hillfort → Garamantian state origin
Zinchecra excavated by Mattingly 1990s, earliest Garamantian fort prior to valley Garama.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Zakarian (1196 Gergol by Mkhitar Gosh; Surb Astvatsatsin 1191–96 with gavit 1203) · Zakarian medieval university (Mkhitar Gosh 1130–1213 law Datastanagirk code author, 13th c. Goshavank school)
Goshavank excavated Soviet, Mkhitar Gosh 1196 law code university, lace khachkar famous.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo IV to 1672 Spanish mission · Tompiro Pueblo / Salinas Spanish Missions (Franciscan)
Gran Quivira excavated by Vivian & Toulouse 1923, 1672 drought depopulation 16,000 to 0.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Bagratid (10th c. Horomos main church St John 1038; Ani near) · Armenian Bagratid Ani kingdom (King Abas 930, Gagik I 989 Ani rival)
Horomos Ani 930, excavated by Marr 1904, 1038 Zhamatun 400 m from Ani walls cross gorge.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Napatan (750–600 BCE) and Meroitic later · Kushite Napatan trade centre
Sanam excavated by Griffith 1923, Napatan treasury town opposite Barkal sacred mountain.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Jornada Mogollon (900–1400 CE) · Jornada Mogollon
Three Rivers recorded by Schaafsma 1960s, Jornada style linked to Mimbres–Casas Grandes.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Pastoral Neolithic (6000–1500 BCE) · Uweinat pastoralists (Garamantian ancestor?)
Uweinat documented by Frobenius 1933 and Menardi Noguera, 6000 BCE cattle pastoralists.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Ancestral Puebloan Pueblo III (1200–1300 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Hisatsinom)
Mesa Verde Mug House excavated by Rohn 1960s, 80 rooms, backcountry ranger permit only.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Epiclassic (500–950 CE Bajío, El Bajío classical) · Peralta culture (Bajío polities, parallel Teotihuacan)
Peralta excavated by INAH 1990s, Bajío classic polities contemporary Teotihuacan north.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Ancestral Puebloan (1000–1400 CE) and Spanish 1700s · Ancestral Puebloan → Rio Grande Pueblo
Albuquerque mesa excavated by Sundt 1970s, 24k peck basalt trail, NPS Mesa Prieta 1000.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo IV Glaze A (1350–1480 CE) · Ancestral Tano (Rio Grande Puebloan) Mogollon-influenced
Pottery Mound excavated by Hibben 1953–61, murals similar to Hopi kachinas 100 km west.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan (Rakhigarhi — largest Indus site 550 ha)
Haryana Harappan excavated by Nath & Shinde, largest Indus city exceeding Mohenjo-daro.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Fremont (900–1200 CE) · Fremont (San Rafael)
Emery Rochester recorded by Gunnerson 1960s, Fremont horned shaman and migration trail.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Moche (100-800 CE) · Moche
Huaca de la Luna Precinct in La Libertad, Peru is a Moche (100-800 CE) temple-complex.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Moche (100-800 CE) · Moche
Huaca de la Luna Precinct in La Libertad, Peru is a Moche (100-800 CE) temple-complex.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Late Kofun (6th c. CE) · Yamato influenced Hizen
Karatsu megalithic chamber exposed by erosion, excavated 1900, late Kofun island type.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Kofun (5th–7th c. CE) · Kii regional Kofun
Wakayama ridge 850 tombs excavated 1900s–now, rock-cut horizon tombs unique in Kansai.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Fremont (500–1300 CE) · Fremont (Uinta Fremont)
Utah's Nine Mile excavated by Manning 1910s, Fremont owl-eyes figures and hunt scenes.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Megalith
Tiwanaku (300-1000 CE) · Tiwanaku
Puma Punku South Platform in Tiwanaku, Bolivia is a Tiwanaku (300-1000 CE) megalithic.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Megalith
Tiwanaku (300-1000 CE) · Tiwanaku
Puma Punku South Platform in Tiwanaku, Bolivia is a Tiwanaku (300-1000 CE) megalithic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Early 4th Dynasty Sneferu (c.2620 BCE) Seila phase · Old Kingdom Sneferu
Seila excavated by Petrie and Swelim, Sneferu 4th Dynasty provincial 7 pyramids chain.
