🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Chiza Valley Geoglyphs
Late Intermediate San Miguel-Gentilar · Tarapaca-Arica-Altiplano caravan continuum
70+ Chiza quebrada geoglyphs (800-1300 CE) with 25-m marine fish 90 km inland, encoding coast-mountain ideology.
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🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate San Miguel-Gentilar · Tarapaca-Arica-Altiplano caravan continuum
70+ Chiza quebrada geoglyphs (800-1300 CE) with 25-m marine fish 90 km inland, encoding coast-mountain ideology.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Mound
Iron Age to Historic Kanem · Chad Basin (Gajiganna → Kanem-Bornu)
7 m deep tell preserving 3000-year fishing-pastoralist sequence; fish bones, cord roulette ceramics and copper imports show trans-Saharan contact before Arab records.