🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Cerro Unita Giant
Late Intermediate Pica-Tarapaca 900-1450 CE · Tarapaca caravan and Pica oasis
86-m Atacama anthropomorphic giant (900-1450 CE) on Cerro Unita, largest prehistoric figure in Americas.
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🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate Pica-Tarapaca 900-1450 CE · Tarapaca caravan and Pica oasis
86-m Atacama anthropomorphic giant (900-1450 CE) on Cerro Unita, largest prehistoric figure in Americas.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate (Arica / Tarapacá) · Tarapacá / Arica caravan tradition
Westernmost Tarapacá geoglyph cluster on the southern flank of Quebrada Tiliviche (1,070 m), 2 km west of the Pan-American bridge. Camiña commune.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Paracas (800–200 BCE) to Topará (200 BCE–200 CE) to early Nazca · Paracas and Topará–Nazca
1,000 hill-crest geoglyphs (1000 BCE–800 CE) — the Paracas predecessor to Nazca on Palpa terraces.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative to Late Intermediate (Tarapacá 400 BCE–1400 CE) · Tarapacá caravan (Alto Ramírez–Pica)
East-ridge geoglyphs 1.8 km east of Salar de Huasco: 22 ignimbrite figures including caravan llamas and solstice avenue at 3,835 m.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Geoglyph
Late pre-Hispanic Agrelo-Viluco · Huarpe-Pehuenche
30 austral basalt geoglyphs (900-1500 CE) on Sierra Pintada, southernmost Andean desert lines at 37S.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate Period, Paracas to Nazca culture · Paracas / Nazca
Over 300 geometric and figurative geoglyphs etched by removing dark desert pavement to reveal light subsoil across 450 km² of arid Pampas, including 1.8 km hummingbird, monkey, spider, and trapezoids…
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Archaic to Formative (3000 BCE–800 CE) · Tarapacá altiplano foragers to caravan
North bofedal geoglyphs 6 km north of Huasco lagoons: 16 salt-crust figures including rayed anthropomorphs and Collacagua arrow at 3,810 m.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Late to Pottery Neolithic (7200–6200 BCE) · Black Desert PPNB pastoral hunters (Wisad Pools group)
11 central plateau kites 730 m: funnel walls 280–620 m to star pens with chert anvil, highest packing density on Wisad.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
El Molle to Diaguita–Inca · Choapa–Diaguita agropastoralists
Southern fringe geoglyphs at Choapa (31°S): 12 transitional figures marking trans-Andean pass to Argentina.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate (Tarapacá / Pica) · Tarapacá / Atacameño caravan
16 Tarapacá hilltop geoglyphs (900–1400 CE) on Cerro Sombrero mesa NW of Pintados.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Nasca-Huari Transition to Middle Horizon · Huarpa–Wari (Lucanas)
Chaviña south pampa: 20 spiral/camelid figures on Lucanas ignimbrite fan at 3,280 m.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Formative to Late Intermediate (700–1500 CE) · Atacameño, Tarapacá and Altiplano caravan cultures
400 Atacama caravan geoglyphs (700–1500 CE) etched in desert varnish above the Tamarugal pampa.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB–Late Neolithic (7000–5500 BCE) · Black Desert hunters
Interfluve plateau between north and south arms of Wadi al-Qattafi 5 km north of Qa' al-Qattafi playa (680 m).
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Inca) · Atacameño–Inca caravan
Salar del Sur east corridor: 20 paired Avenues forming 1.4 km converging system toward playa.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Archaic–Formative (1000 BCE–500 CE) · Alto Ramírez
Flat pampa surface (1,350 m) 8 km east of classic km 60 Alto Ramírez slope, with extensive pavement (gobi texture).
🇫🇷 France · Geoglyph
Iron Age · Iron Age
Iron Age geoglyph at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB Late to Late Neolithic (7200–5000 BCE) · Qattafi basin pastoral trappers (Wadi al-Qattafi group)
10 south mesa kites 695 m: 320–780 m walls using 40% natural escarpment as barrier, mesa-lee pens with burial cairn cutting wall.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate (Atacameño 900–1400 CE) · Atacameño Likan Antai Sur-crossing caravans
14 halite-island figures on Sur central playa 2280 m: camelids + bisected arrow on gypsum isle amid brine sheet.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative to Middle Horizon (Alto Ramírez–Cabuza 400–800 CE) · South bank Camarones gorge groups
23 inverted south escarpment figures 480 m: head-downhill giants + pelican and open trapezoid across from north terrace binocular.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate (Alto Ramírez–Cabuza 600–1100 CE) · Lluta Alto Ramírez–Cabuza–Maitas
27 western Cardones ravine figures 3.5 km from Lluta confluence: bow-legged giants plus feline and trapezoid avenue to puquios.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Middle to Late Intermediate (Camiña) · Camiña–Camiña culture (highland enclave)
Precordillera hillside geoglyphs at Camiña: 16 ladder-body figures linking Nama petroglyphs to valley terraces.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative to Late Intermediate (Alto Ramírez–San Miguel) · Azapa–Cabuza agropastoralists
Eastern Azapa extension at La Portada pass: 18 additive cobble figures beyond Cerro Sombrero.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative Alto Ramirez to Late Intermediate San Miguel · Azapa (Alto Ramirez, Cabuza, San Miguel)
40+ Azapa Valley terrace geoglyphs (500 BCE-1350 CE) viewed at short range, bridging Formative to Late Intermediate.
🇨🇱 Chile · Hydraulic works
Formative to Modern (Alto Ramírez to Colonial) · Tarapacá / Pica-Tarapacá / Hispanic oasis
Pica (1,350 m, 20°29′21″S 69°19′46″W) is the only living oasis of the Atacama with active filtration galleries (socavones) tapping the Pica Aquifer; study by Lictevout et al.