🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
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Middle Woodland (Hopewell) · Hopewell (Ohio Hopewell)
Hopewell earthworks (200 BCE–400 CE) on Little Miami — 300-m Great Enclosure and pipestone pipes at Cincinnati.
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3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Plaquemine–Mississippian (700–1500 CE) · Plaquemine-Mississippian (Yazoo Basin)
Major Yazoo Basin mound center (700–1500 CE) with 20+ mounds, plazas and bastioned embankment at Lake George.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Old Kingdom c.2700–2600 BCE (Third–Fourth Dynasty) · Old Kingdom Egyptian
Sadd el-Kafara (c.2700 BCE) – Old Kingdom's 113m-long, 14m-high masonry embankment dam with 98m base and 500,000 m³ rubble core in Wadi Garawi, 30 km south Cairo.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland (Hopewell) · Hopewell (Ohio Hopewell)
Hopewell earthworks (200 BCE–400 CE) on Little Miami — 300-m Great Enclosure and pipestone pipes at Cincinnati.