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8 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 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 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 · Geoglyph
Late Prehistoric (Patayan) · Yuman (Mojave/Quechan)
9-m Fisherman intaglio (900–1200 CE) on Plomosa piedmont — spearman with fish and sun.
🇺🇸 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 · Archaeological wonder
Mogollon–Ancestral Puebloan 1260–1350 CE · Mogollon–Ancestral Puebloan
60-room basalt Great House 1260–1350 CE, Great Kiva solar calendar.
