🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Topper Site
Pre-Clovis (Topper) to Clovis · Pre-Clovis (Topper)/Clovis
Pre-Clovis chert quarry (15,000 BCE) with debated lower horizon below Clovis on Savannah River, South Carolina.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Leake Mounds
Middle Woodland to Early Mississippian (Swift Creek–Cartersville) · Woodland (Swift Creek) / Early Mississippian
Moated Swift Creek town (300 BCE–650 CE) with 3 mounds and circular ditch on Etowah River, Georgia.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Snaketown
Hohokam Pioneer–Sedentary (300 BCE–1150 CE) · Hohokam (Sonoran Desert tradition)
Hohokam type site (300 BCE–1150 CE) — pithouse village with 2 ballcourts and Gila River canals, Arizona.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Anzick Site
Paleo-Indian (Clovis, ~12,700 BP) · Clovis (Paleo-Indian)
Only Clovis burial (12,600 BCE) — 18-month child with 112 ochre-stained tools and first Paleo-Indian genome, Montana.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Shiloh Indian Mounds
Mississippian (Shiloh phase, 1000–1350 CE) · Mississippian (Western Tennessee)
Fortified Mississippian town (1000–1350 CE) with 7 mounds and 2 km palisade on Tennessee River bluff, Shiloh.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chimney Rock Great House Pueblo
Pueblo II (Chacoan, 925–1125 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Chacoan)
Northernmost Chacoan great house (925–1125 CE) aligned to 18.6-year lunar standstill between twin spires, Colorado.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Gault Site
Pre-Clovis to Clovis (16,000–12,700 BCE) · Pre-Clovis (Gault Assemblage) → Clovis
Pre-Clovis workshop (16,000 BCE) — 600k artifacts and engraved stones below Clovis at Buttermilk Creek, Texas.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Meadowcroft Rockshelter
Pre-Clovis to Late Woodland · Pre-Clovis (Meadowcroft) to Woodland
16,000-year stratified rockshelter (Miller lanceolate horizon) with basketry preservation, Pennsylvania.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Crystal River Mounds
Middle Woodland (Deptford–Weeden Island, 200 BCE–750 CE) · Deptford–Weeden Island (Florida Woodland)
Woodland plaza center (200 BCE–750 CE) with 6 mounds and Hopewell exotics on Crystal River estuary, Florida.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Stallings Island Mound
Late Archaic (Stallings phase, 3410–2730 BCE) · Stallings culture (Late Archaic, Southeastern US)
Type site of Stallings fiber pottery (3410–2730 BCE) — earliest ceramics in North America on Savannah River island.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Cactus Hill
Pre-Clovis to Clovis · Pre-Clovis (Cactus Hill)
Sandy terrace pre-Clovis site (16,000 BCE) with blades beneath Clovis on Nottoway River, Virginia.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Lubbock Lake Landmark
Paleo-Indian to Late Prehistoric (Clovis to Puebloan) · Clovis, Folsom, Plano, Archaic, Late Prehistoric
11,000-year stratified Paleo-Indian site — Clovis mammoth kill to Folsom bison beds on Yellow House Draw, Texas.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Grand Village of the Natchez
Plaquemine to Historic Natchez (1200–1730 CE) · Plaquemine / Natchez (Muskogean)
Natchez historic capital (1200–1730 CE) — 3 Plaquemine mounds and plaza where French witnessed 1725 sacrifice.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Paisley Caves
Pre-Clovis (Western Stemmed) · Paisley (Western Stemmed) / Pre-Clovis
14,500-year coprolite caves — oldest human DNA in Americas (14,300 BP) with Western Stemmed points, Oregon.