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29 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Canyon de Chelly White House South Ledge in Arizona, Chinle, United States is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Newspaper Rock Petrified Forest Panel South in Arizona, Petrified Forest, United States is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Sinagua (c.1000–1400 CE) Southern Sinagua – Northern Sinagua transition · Sinagua
Tuzigoot (Apache Tó Ził Gogh – crooked water) is the best-preserved Southern Sinagua hilltop pueblo in the Verde Valley, Arizona, at 1,040 m (3,410 ft) on a limestone ridge above the Verde River.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Sinagua (c.1100–1400 CE) Southern Sinagua Classic · Sinagua
Montezuma Castle – neither castle nor Aztec – is North America's best-preserved cliff dwelling, inset 30 m up a vertical limestone cliff above Beaver Creek in Verde Valley, Arizona.
🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Late Prehistoric (Patayan II–III) · Patayan / Hakataya (Yuman)
9+ Patayan intaglios (880 BP–1500 CE) on La Posa Plain north of Bouse — Colorado River style.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Mogollon–Ancestral Puebloan 1260–1350 CE · Mogollon–Ancestral Puebloan
60-room basalt Great House 1260–1350 CE, Great Kiva solar calendar.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Classic (1150–1450 CE) · Hohokam (Tucson / Marana community)
Classic Hohokam platform 1150 CE — ballcourt & 150 m terrace rock-pile fields (Fish).
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Classic Hohokam 1150–1450 CE (Sedentary to Classic transition) · Hohokam (Ancestral Sonoran Desert, ancestors of O’odham)
Ancestral Sonoran Desert four-story Great House (18 m × 13 m, 4 storeys, 11 rooms, caliche clay walls 1 m thick, internal loopholes) – largest known Hohokam structure, preserved under 1932 modern…
🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Late Prehistoric (Patayan) · Yuman (Mojave/Quechan)
9-m Fisherman intaglio (900–1200 CE) on Plomosa piedmont — spearman with fish and sun.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pueblo IV (Ancestral Puebloan post-Mesa Verde, 1285–1400 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Hopi ancestor — Homolovi Cluster)
Homolovi I (Homolovi State Park — Sunset Mesa Pueblo) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Arizona, Navajo County, Winslow–Little Colorado, Homolovi State Park, United States — Largest Homolovi…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Sinagua (c.1100–1250 CE) Northern Sinagua – Cohonina transition · Northern Sinagua
Walnut Canyon National Monument preserves 300+ Northern Sinagua cliff dwellings (c.1100–1250 CE) set in shallow alcoves under the Kaibab Limestone rim of a 122m-deep canyon 12 km east of Flagstaff,…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Colonial to Classic (600–1450 CE) · Hohokam (Salt River)
Salt River Hohokam platform-mound barrio town (c.600–1450 CE, Colonial to Classic) now buried under central Phoenix Encanto — sister to Pueblo Grande 5 km east, controlling La Ciudad Canal (HoHo…
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Archaic to Ancestral Puebloan (3000 BCE–1300 CE) · Southern Paiute / Ancestral Puebloan
Parashant Nampaweap recorded by Peel 1970s, Puebloan pilgrimage trail markers to Grand Canyon.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Pueblo II–III 1120–1250 CE (post-Sunset Crater) · Sinagua / Ancestral Puebloan (Hisatsinom) with Mogollon/Hohokam influences
100-room red-Moenkopi sandstone pueblo with tower-kiva and Hopi-style ballcourt, outlier of Sinagua-Hisatsinom frontier after Sunset Crater eruption (1085 CE) improved farming.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Pre-Classic to Classic (450–1450 CE) · Hohokam (Salt River branch)
Classic Hohokam great-house platform-mound town (c.450–1450 CE) at heart of modern Phoenix — largest Hohokam platform mound in Salt River valley, controlling 30 km Grand Canal system irrigating 70…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Sinagua (1120–1250 CE) post-Sunset Crater · Sinagua / Ancestral Puebloan
Wupatki excavated by Hargrave 1930s, Sinagua pueblos linked to Sunset Crater ash mulching.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1150–1450 CE) · Hohokam Classic Period (Marana community)
Marana Hohokam Mound Phoenix Basin is the Los Robles platform mound community on the Santa Cruz River north of Tucson — Fish's Marana community (1150–1450 CE) showing Classic Hohokam platform…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Colonial to Classic (750–1450 CE; peak 1350 CE) · Hohokam (Gila–Casa Grande community, Ancestral O'odham)
Classic Hohokam Gila village 1350 CE — 60 ha compounds around Great House.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Kayenta Ancestral Pueblo (1250–1300 CE) plus earlier Basketmaker 300 CE · Kayenta Ancestral Pueblo (Hisatsinom)
Keet Seel excavated by Fewkes 1917 and Dean dendro 1970s, 155 rooms, trail 8 km.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Basketmaker to Pueblo III (300–1300 CE) plus Navajo later · Kayenta Ancestral Puebloan
Mummy Cave excavated by Fewkes and Morris 1920s, mummy found 1882 with slave.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Kayenta Ancestral Pueblo (1250–1300 CE) + inscriptions 1661 Nieves, 1930s cowboys · Kayenta / Navajo / Spanish
Inscription House closed since 1968, Kayenta 1270 pueblo with Spanish 1661 nieves inscription.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Early Agricultural Period–Early Ceramic (1200 BCE–500 CE; peak 1000–500 BCE) · Early Agricultural / Cienega phase (pre-Hohokam)
Early Agricultural metropolis 1000 BCE — 400 pithouses & 1 km canal before Hohokam.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Colonial to Classic (950–1350 CE; peak 950–1200 CE) · Hohokam (Tucson Basin)
Hohokam platform precursor 950 CE — 600 bedrock mortars & ballcourt (Bayman).
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1100–1450 CE) · Hohokam Classic Period (Pueblo Grande region)
Mesa Grande Hohokam Platform Mound Extension is the eastern lower terrace of Mesa Grande Ruin — the largest extant Hohokam platform mound in the Salt River Valley, within modern Mesa.
