🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Dolmen de Howe Ras
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Dolmen de Howe Ras in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Megalith
Dolmen de Wadi Settlement
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Dolmen de Wadi Settlement in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) megalithic attributed to Nazca culture.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Gavrinis Passage Tomb
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan megalithic / Chassey-Cerny
Island passage tomb in Gulf of Morbihan with 14 m passage lined with richly carved orthostats, c.4200 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Easter Aquhorthies Stone Circle
Late Neolithic (2500–1500 BCE) · Recumbent builders
Easter Aquhorthies Stone Circle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (2500–1500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Recumbent builders.
🇷🇺 Russia · Megalith
Great Salbyk Kurgan
Tagar culture, Scythian (~800–200 BCE; Salbyk 500 BCE) · Tagar (Scythian-Siberian, Khakass steppe)
So-called Siberian Stonehenge: a 71-m square enclosure of standing Devonian sandstone slabs weighing up to 50 tonnes enclosing a truncated pyramid kurgan 12 m high.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Hetty Pegler's Tump (Uley Long Barrow)
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Cotswold-Severn long barrow on Uley escarpment, 37 m with transepted chambers, c.3750 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn
Early–Middle Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Stalled cairn on Rousay with tripartite chamber, 29 burials, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Zennor Quoit
Early Neolithic · Penwith Early Neolithic
Ruinous 12.8 m mound dolmen on Zennor Hill with slipped 4.8 m capstone over 3.5 m chamber.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Callanish II (Cnoc Ceann a' Gharaidh)
Late Neolithic · Hebridean Late Neolithic
7-stone elliptical circle (21.6×18.9 m) on Loch Roag ridge south-east of Callanish I, with central ruined cairn.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Megalith
Dolmen de Kuma-Hinton
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Dolmen de Kuma-Hinton in Souss-Massa, Morocco is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) megalithic attributed to Harappan culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Shiloh Indian Mounds National Historic Landmark
Early to Middle Mississippian 1000–1350 CE · Mississippian (Shiloh phase)
Palisaded 8-mound Mississippi River town on Tennessee River, 1000–1350 CE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Dolmen des Pierres Folles (Commequiers)
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Vendée Atlantic
18 m gallery grave (allée couverte) near Commequiers, Vendée, Pierre Folle road, 3000 BCE.
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Megalith
Dolmen de Cave
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Dolmen de Cave in Magway Region, Myanmar is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) megalithic attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Pueblo de los Muertos
Late Intermediate 1100–1470 CE Chachapoya cliff-house · Chachapoyas
Most dramatic Chachapoyas cliff village: 30 structures (houses and mausoleums) fused to vertical sandstone wall via timber beams slotted into cliff, accessed via rope ladders 200 m above cloud forest…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Vinquoy Chambered Cairn
Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Maeshowe-type hilltop cairn on Eday with four side cells, c.3200 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Castlerigg Stone Circle
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Cumbria / Langdale axe network
Late Neolithic flattened circle of 38 stones near Keswick with rectangular eastern enclosure and fells panorama.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Er Lannic Stone Circles
Early to Late Neolithic · Morbihan Atlantic
Tidal double stone circle on Er Lannic island, Gulf of Morbihan, half-submerged, 4500 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Karajía Sarcophagi
Chachapoya Late Intermediate 1100–1480 CE · Chachapoya
2.5-m anthropomorphic sarcophagi on 2600-m cliff, 1100–1480 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Millbarrow (Winterbourne Monkton Long Barrow)
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Excavated Cotswold-Severn long barrow north of Avebury, 30 m, discrete façade, c.3750 BCE.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
El Zotz
Maya Late Classic 350–900 CE · Maya (Pa'Chan dynasty, Tikal–Teotihuacan linked)
Hilltop city with Diablos Pyramid sun-god masks, 300 BCE–900 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Callanish IV (Ceann Hulabhaig)
Late Neolithic · Hebridean Late Neolithic
Six-stone flattened circle (13.3×9.5 m) with central robbed cairn, 2.2 km south of Callanish I.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Rock Hawk Effigy Mound
Woodland–Archaic 1000 BCE–1000 CE · Woodland peoples
30-m quartz hawk effigy on Oconee River, paired with Rock Eagle.
🇦🇺 Australia · Archaeological wonder
Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
Gunditjmara continuous 6,600–6,000 BCE to present (dated 6,700 BP Muldoon trap) · Gunditjmara Aboriginal Australian
Gunditjmara aquaculture over 6,600 years on Budj Bim basalt lava flow (30,000-year-old volcano) with 750 m of stone channels, weirs and eel traps (kooyang) manipulating Lake Condah wetlands.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Dolmen de Black-Lake
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Dolmen de Black-Lake in Henan, China is a Moche (100–800 CE) megalithic attributed to Moche culture.