🇸🇾 Syria · Earthwork
Harraat al-Harra Desert Kites
Neolithic to Chalcolithic, Badia Neolithic · Harra Neolithic hunters
34 basalt kite traps (4800-3200 BCE) on Harraat al-Harra plateau SE of Damascus, northwestern anchor of mega-kite province.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar de Huasco East Ridge Geoglyphs (Eastern Ignimbrite Spur)
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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Vitor Valley Pampa Geoglyphs (Corire–La Cano Sector)
Sihuas–Wari to Late Intermediate · Vitor–Sihuas valley people
Vitor pampa geoglyphs between Arequipa and Majes: 21 etched figures with radial avenues to spring wetland.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Earthwork
Jibal al-Khashabiyeh Kites
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Eastern Badia Neolithic pastoral-hunters
16 interlinked limestone kite traps (5000-3500 BCE) forming 1.2-km chain blocking wadi mouths on Jibal al-Khashabiyeh.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Sadd el-Kafara – Wadi Garawi Old Kingdom Dam
Early Old Kingdom (Djoser–Sneferu) · Old Kingdom Egyptians (Memphite)
World's oldest dam (2650 BCE)—110-m Old Kingdom embankment diverting Wadi Garawi floods.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Acre — Capixaba Ramal Geoglyphs Phase West (Western Acre Ramal)
Early to Late Pre-Columbian (400 BCE – 1000 CE) · Acre geoglyph culture / Arawak
Western Ramal triple geoglyph at Capixaba — 3× 120 m squares with 700 m avenue at –10.05S.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Toro Muerto Geoglyphs
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate Wari-Chuquibamba · Wari-influenced Chuquibamba/Majes
60+ volcanic-pavement geoglyphs (600-1200 CE) beside Toro Muerto petroglyphs, Majes Valley ritual plateau.
🇮🇱 Israel · Earthwork
Negev Central Desert Kites - Mitzpe Ramon
Late Neolithic Timnian to Early Bronze, plus Nabataean · Negev Timnian hunter-herders; Nabataean farmers
11 flint desert kites (4100-2900 BCE) on Negev plateau rim above Ramon Crater, later reused by Nabataean wine-presses.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
Upano — Kilimope Plateau North Gardens at Sangay (Upano North)
Formative to Regional Development (500 BCE – 600 CE) · Upano / Kilmope / Sangay
Upano north plateau Kilimope 400 platforms 10×20 m and 20 km road segments with garden ridges 600–980 m; Upano gardens.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
Upano — Kilimope Plateau North Gardens at Sangay (Upano North) — v2
Formative to Regional Development (500 BCE – 600 CE) · Upano / Kilmope / Sangay
Upano north plateau Kilimope 400 platforms 10×20 m and 20 km road segments with garden ridges 600–980 m; Upano gardens.
🇱🇹 Lithuania · Earthwork
Asveja Lake Hillfort and Dubingiai Castle Complex
Middle Ages (14th–17th c. with Iron Age hillfort predecessor) · Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Vytautas, Radvila family)
Asveja Lake Hillfort and Dubingiai Castle Complex in Vilnius County, Molėtai–Dubingiai, Asveja lake bridge area, Lithuania is a Middle Ages (14th–17th c.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Nafud Desert Kites - Hail Fringe
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Neolithic, Nafud Neolithic · Northern Arabian Neolithic hunters
22 sand-edge desert kites (5500-4200 BCE) at Nafud-Hail fringe with pit-traps cut into calcrete, oryx drive along dune corridors.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Sintashta–Arkaim Barrow Graves (Sintashta Cemetery & Arkaim Necropolis)
Middle Bronze Age (Sintashta–Petrovka) · Sintashta (Country of Towns)
40+ Sintashta chariot kurgans (2050–1800 BCE) — earliest spoke-wheeled chariot graves, Indo-Iranian horizon.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Cantona
Epiclassic to Early Postclassic 600–1100 CE (peak 600–950 CE, Teotihuacan–Tula interstice) · Unclassified central Mexican (earlier linked to early Nahua/Chichimeca? distinctive not Teotihuacan nor Toltec)
Largest pre-Hispanic city on Mexican highlands by area and most elaborate urban fortification: 12 km² (1,215 ha) city on 500 m-wavy basaltic lava field (malpaís) with 7,500+ patios, 24 ballcourts…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Fewkes Mounds
Middle Mississippian (c.1000–1450 CE) – Thruston phase Middle Cumberland · Mississippian (Middle Cumberland culture)
The Fewkes Group (Boiling Springs, 40Wm1) is a fortified Middle Mississippian town on the Harpeth River near Brentwood, Tennessee, at 210 m.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Earthwork
Armenian Desert Kites – Mount Aragats & Syunik
Bronze Age to Early Iron Age · Kura-Araxes to Trialeti pastoralists
20 high-altitude kites on Mount Aragats (3000–800 BCE)—Caucasus extension 1,200 km from Levant.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Lindholme Neolithic Trackway & Platform (Hatfield Moors, South Yorkshire)
Late Neolithic (2900–2500 BCE) · British Late Neolithic (Humberhead fen communities)
45-m Late Neolithic corduroy trackway (2900–2500 BCE) over Hatfield pool to platform — earliest in Britain.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Novozavedennoye Kurgan Field – Stavropol Steppe
Maikop to Sarmatian (3600 BCE–300 CE) · Maikop / Yamnaya / Catacomb / Sarmatian
Stratified Maikop–Catacomb–Sarmatian kurgan cemetery (3600 BCE–300 CE) — Caucasus-steppe anchor.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village
Derryoghil & Tin Tab Bog Trackways (Derryoghil–Derragh Bog, Co. Longford)
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (2750–2280 BCE) · Irish Neolithic–Early Bronze (Beaker transition, 2500 BCE)
700-m stacked bog road (2750 BCE brush under 2280 BCE oak plank) — only Neolithic→Bronze stacked reuse in Ireland.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village
Keenagh (Corlea 2) Bog Trackway (County Roscommon–Longford border)
Iron Age (Late Iron Age, La Tène D, 148 BCE) · Irish Iron Age (La Tène, Uisnech kingship)
Iron Age 1-km oak causeway (148 BCE) — Keenagh's in situ twin to Corlea 1, part of 5-trackway Shannon bog field.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Enez Krno Bog Causeway (Île aux Moines–Medreac Moor, Brittany)
Hallstatt C (Iron Age I Armorican) · Armorican Hallstatt (Brittany enclos community)
Armorican bog causeway to islet settlement in Enez Krno mire: 52-m Iron Age plank–hurdlehybrid (620 BCE).
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Kelermes Royal Kurgan — Ciscaucasian Scythian Chieftain (Adygea, Kuban)
Early Scythian (pre-Kelermes to Kelermes phase, 8th–7th c BCE aftermath of Near Eastern campaign) · North Caucasian Scythian–Meotian (Cimmerian substrate + returning Scythian)
Adygean Scythian–Cimmerian kurgans (670–640 BCE) with Assyrian mirror and earliest gold-scabbard akinakes.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar de Huasco Geoglyphs (Huasco Salt Flat Lines)
Late Archaic to Formative (Late Archaic–Alto Ramírez–Tarapacá) · Tarapacá caravan / Alto Ramírez
30+ altiplano caravan geoglyphs (1000 BCE–600 CE) at 3,800 m around Salar de Huasco, Tarapacá.
🇨🇳 China · Hydraulic works
Dujiangyan Irrigation System
Warring States, Qin to Qing continuous · Qin state engineers under Li Bing (later successive dynasties maintenance)
256 BCE Qin weir still irrigating 5,300 km²—world's oldest dam-less hydraulic system.