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Every place in the atlas labelled enclosures.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Hunter-gatherer (PPN A/B)
🇦🇷 Argentina · Hypothetical site
Holocene natural / possibly Late Holocene human (unvalidated) · Unassigned Huarpes / Comechingón? / Jesuit?
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland (Hopewell) · Hopewell (Ohio Hilltop)
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Early Neolithic Ireland (Céide Ware)
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland / Late Woodland debated · Hopewell tradition or Fort Ancient tradition
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell 100–400 CE · Hopewell tradition (Turner phase)
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Hunter-gatherer (PPN A/B)
Hilltop Pre-Pottery Neolithic sanctuary with 8+ circular enclosures defined by T-shaped limestone pillars up to 5.5 m, carved with foxes, vultures, aurochs.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Hypothetical site
Holocene natural / possibly Late Holocene human (unvalidated) · Unassigned Huarpes / Comechingón? / Jesuit?
Erosive 4000 ha Potrero de la Aguada amphitheatre inside Quijadas range — 40–80 m low stone walls bracketing stream forks, culture debated.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland (Hopewell) · Hopewell (Ohio Hilltop)
Hopewell hilltop enclosure (100 BCE–400 CE) on Baker Fork gorge — 2.4-km wall with 33 gates.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland (Hopewell) · Hopewell (Ohio Scioto)
Hopewell circular enclosure (100 BCE–400 CE) near Bourneville — 120-m ring and 5-m log-tomb mound at Chillicothe.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Early Neolithic Ireland (Céide Ware)
10 km² Neolithic field walls and tombs preserved under blanket bog — world's oldest enclosed landscape, c.3500 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell 100 BCE–500 CE · Hopewell tradition
Hopewell 22 ha circle-square with 321 m Great Circle, UNESCO 2023 unit-of-measure type-site.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland / Late Woodland debated · Hopewell tradition or Fort Ancient tradition
Hilltop stone-walled enclosure 42 ha above Paint Creek; Hopewell vs Fort Ancient debate.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell 100–400 CE · Hopewell tradition (Turner phase)
Hopewell enclosure-mound group source of copper effigies and mica tombs on Little Miami terrace.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell 100–350 CE · Hopewell tradition
Hopewell square 320 m with corner circles and Liberty Mound, Chillicothe cluster component.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell 50–350 CE · Hopewell tradition
Scioto bluff Hopewell enclosure triplet (circle-square-irregular) 45 km south of Chillicothe core.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Taş Tepeler PPN
Major Taş Tepeler sister site to Göbekli Tepe, ~15 ha with quarries, 266 T-pillars and special building with 11 pillars and phallic/human-head statuary. Reveals 12-site hilltop sanctuary network.
