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2 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Ancient city
Zimbabwe Culture Period IV (Late Iron Age; Khami Phase 1450–1683) · Kalanga (Torwa/Karanga) / Rozvi
Post-Great Zimbabwe Torwa capital 1450–1683 with 6 m checkerboard terrace walls on hilltop and Ming porcelain imports.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chaco Late Bonito to Post-Chaco San Juan · Chaco (ancestral Pueblo) → Mesa Verde–San Juan reoccupation
Isolated Chacoan great house outlier (c.1050–1110 CE core, Late Pueblo II, Classic Bonito phase + San Juan reoccupation c.1150) 26 km SW of Chaco proper — closest great house to Chaco that captures…
