🇧🇴 Bolivia · Geoglyph
Salar de Uyuni Hill Figures & Salt-Flat Geoglyphs
Formative to Middle Horizon (Lípez–Intersalar) · Lípez / Intersalar–early Tiwanaku
25+ hill and salar-margin geoglyphs (800 BCE–800 CE) guiding Lípez salt caravans at 3,656 m.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Pampa Dos Palmas Geoglyphs (Pica – Matilla Corridor)
Late Intermediate (Pica–Tarapacá) · Pica–Tarapacá oasis farmers
Pampa between Pica and Matilla: 24 rhombus and avenue figures aligned to puquio water galleries.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Siega Verde Rock Engravings – Águeda River
Upper Palaeolithic (Solutrean–Magdalenian) · Solutrean–Magdalenian hunter-gatherers of western Iberia
443 Palaeolithic figures on Águeda schist—UNESCO trans-frontier extension of Côa Valley (20–10k BCE).
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Talianki – Cucuteni-Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Chalcolithic, Trypillia BII Cucuteni A-B · Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
3850 BCE 450-ha burnt-house proto-city—6,000 inhabitants, Europe's largest Chalcolithic settlement.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Zuojiang Huashan North Ningming Rock Art
Warring States to Western Han · Luoyue / Zhuang ancestors
North Mingjiang tributary cliffs with 210 frog-men and scaffold postholes.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Wittmoor Bog Trackways I & II (Hamburg Rhineland)
Early Iron Age (Jastorf / La Tène) · North German Early Iron Age
Dual Iron Age bog trackways (25 m asl) southeast through Wittmoor (Moor 53°42′00″N 10°04′10″E 53.699984N 10.069399E per Wikipedia No II 1904 Wolff discovery) and parallel No I 500 m northeast.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Buraimi Aflaj System (Oman-UAE Border Oasis)
Iron Age to Modern (Hafit to Islamic) · Hajar oasis (Magan to Islamic)
Cross-border aflaj network (320 m, 24°15′N 55°45′E Buraimi) extending the UNESCO Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman (1207, 2006) from Nizwa-Sharqiyah to the Hajar-Buraimi piedmont.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Namazga-Tepe
Namazga I–VI 4000–1800 BCE (Chalcolithic to Bronze Age) · Anau–Namazga oasis civilization (Pre-BMAC Kopet)
Bronze Age mega-tell and type-site for Namazga chronology (c.4000–1800 BCE) near the Tejen River fan 100 km east of Ashgabat — 50 ha tepe (largest in Turkmenistan) with 30 m stratigraphy (Namazga…
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Archaeological wonder
Pesse Canoe – World's Oldest Boat
Mesolithic (Maglemosian/Boreal) · Northern European Early Mesolithic forest foragers (Maglemose)
8040 BCE Scots pine dugout—world's oldest preserved boat, fire-hollowed Mesolithic canoe.
🇸🇴 Somaliland · Rock art
Karinhegane Rock Art (Castellated Shelter)
Neolithic pastoral to Recent (2500 BCE–1000 CE) · Pastoral Cushitic → Somali
Gorge system of 10 shelters with Somaliland's most naturalistic pastoral bovines, giraffes and elongated humans.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Kostromskaya Kurgan – Maikop Iron Canopy Grave
Early Iron Age, Early Scythian (Kuban group) · Early Scythian (Kubano–Chernogorovka) proto-Scythian elite
7th-c. BCE 30-m Maikop-Mounded Scythian tent-canopy grave with iron-shod poles and 22 horse sacrifice.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Saimaluu-Tash West Valley — Fergana Range High Petroglyphs
Bronze Age to Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Wusun, Turkic
West cirque of Saimaluu-Tash at 3120 m with 1072 boulders, Andronovo ploughing and shaman processions.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Cemetery
Con Co Ngua Cemetery
Hoabinhian late 6000 BP → Da But Neolithic transition · Da But — Hoabinhian→Neolithic cemetery transition on Ma plain
Con Co Ngua Cemetery — Da But cemetery (6000–5500 BP, late Hoabinhian-Neolithic transition) on limestone knoll at Ha Trung 35 km N Thanh Hoa, excavated 1979–98 and 2013 by V.
🇴🇲 Oman · Archaeological wonder
Ubar (Ubaruq) Mustatil Field — Rub al Khali eastern edge (Shisr–Mudayy)
Neolithic (Arabian Humid Period, 5300–5000 BCE) · East Arabian Neolithic (Ubar–Wusta pastoral, Humid Period)
30 large mustatils (5300–5000 BCE) at Ubar — easternmost Rub al Khali cattle-cult province.
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Ak-Alakha Plateau Frozen Kurgans (Ukok Extension)
Early Iron Age (Pazyryk) · Pazyryk (Siberian Ice Maiden horizon)
Southern flank of Ukok Plateau World Heritage 768 (2,200 m, 49°21′N 87°30′E) Ak-Alakha River valley palsa permafrost where Molodin 1993 Princess of Ukok site (Ak-Alakha-3) and 6 new kurgans form…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Boxgrove Palaeolithic Site – Eartham Pit
Lower Palaeolithic, MIS 13 interglacial (Boxgrove interglacial = Cromerian-ish) · Homo heidelbergensis hunter-scavengers
500,000-year Homo heidelbergensis butchery floor with refitted Acheulean axes and tibia.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Harrat Uwayrid Mustatil Extension — Northern Al-Ula frontier (Uwayrid North)
Neolithic (Late Pottery Neolithic, 5300–5000 BCE) · Northwest Arabian Neolithic (Uwayrid pastoral)
52 Uwayrid North mustatils (5320–5070 BCE) — northernmost and only bichrome-basalt–sandstone variants.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Pampa del Tamarugal Central Geoglyphs (Tamarugal Core Field)
Late Intermediate Tarapacá–Pica · Pica–Tarapacá caravan
Tamarugal core flat geoglyphs: 32 avenues on deflation pampa between Humberstone and Pintados.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Taosi
Late Longshan Taosi phase 2300–1900 BCE → Erlitou transition · Longshan (Taosi culture) → Early Xia? (Yao/Shun legend)
Late Longshan (Taosi phase) walled regional capital (c.2300–1900 BCE) at Tao Temple basin near Linfen, Shanxi — 280 ha enclosure (largest Longshan city in Yellow River basin) with rammed-earth outer…
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Earthwork
Engaruka
Iron Age Iraqw / Sonjo (15th–19th c intensive agricultural) · Iraqw / Sonjo (Datoga/Maasai pressure oral)
3,000 ha irrigated stone terrace and furrow system with 500+ compounds and 5 km canals on Rift escarpment – irrigation without state.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Shushtar Band-e Kaisar — Roman Bridge-Dam Caesar's Dam
Sassanian (Roman capture) · Sassanian Persian, Roman legion engineers
Karun 500-m Roman arch bridge-dam by Valerian's legion 260 CE with Gargar mills, core of UNESCO Shushtar system.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Sinai Nawamis Road (Route of the Nawamis — Serabit to Ain Huderah)
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I (Ghassulian–Arad, Maadi–Buto) · Sinai–Negev Chalcolithic (Ghassulian, South Sinai pastoral)
25-km Sinai nawamis beehive road (3800–3200 BCE) with 15 mustatil-like platforms linking coast to Serabit mines.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Burzahom Archaeological Site
Neolithic I Aceramic (3000–2800) → Neolithic II Ceramic (2800–2000) → Megalithic II (2000–1500) → Early Historic III · Kashmir Neolithic (Burzahom culture)
Northernmost Neolithic settlement in India (c.3000–1500 BCE) on Karewa lacustrine terrace near Srinagar — aceramic to ceramic Neolithic (Period I pits) → megalithic (Period II).
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Huara Geoglyph Field
Late Intermediate Tarapaca phase · Tarapaca and Arica caravan cultures
120+ Huara pampa geoglyphs (800-1400 CE) featuring unique 5-m footprint effigies on salar silt.