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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Eneolithic to Early Bronze Age · Sredny Stog, Yamnaya
East plateau of Kamyana Mohyla with 18 grottoes, Eneolithic stag and foot-sole pecked slabs.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pueblo III (McElmo/Chacoan late, 1125–1170 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (McElmo-Chacoan late)
Kin Kletso (Yellow House / Chaco McElmo Great House) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in New Mexico, San Juan County, Chaco Canyon, north mesa below Pueblo Alto, United States — McElmo-phase…
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village
Early Neolithic, Cardial–Epicardial (5300 BCE) · Cardial Neolithic fisher-farmers (Iberian Early Neolithic)
5300 BCE Cardial pile dwelling on Lake Banyoles—earliest lake village in Mediterranean with bows and dairy.
🇺🇬 Uganda · Rock art
Later Stone Age to Early Iron Age (2000 BCE – 500 CE) · Later Stone Age Twa and early Ateker (Nilotic) groups
Ugandan inselberg 3 panels 16-m concentric circle rain art 2000 BCE–500 CE.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Early Medieval (Rashtrakuta) · Rashtrakuta Shaivite Brahminical (Kannarid influence)
Urban Deccan basalt 8th-c Shiva quarry-temple 40×28 m with circular Nandi mandapa, unfinished Rashtrakuta.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.4200–4000 BCE) · Armorican Early Neolithic (Barnenez tradition)
Tidal-islet stepped cairn (25 m) with three radiating passage graves — early Neolithic (c.4200 BCE) off Ploudalmézeau.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Bronze Age (Ewart Park, 1300–900 BCE) · Fenland Late Bronze (Deverel–Rimbury, 1300–900 BCE)
380-m southern Flag Fen causeway extension (1220–1120 BCE) — double-post drove way to Whittlesey.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600-8800 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Gobekli Tepe Karahan Quarry Outlier in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600-8800 BCE) ancient village attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (550 BCE – 260 CE) · Sindian / Bosporan Kingdom
Central city harbour of Gorgippia in Anapa Bay — 110 m quay at –2 m and salting vats.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Aceramic Neolithic through Early Bronze (6200–3000 BCE) · Central Anatolian Neolithic → Early Chalcolithic (Bor Plain)
Köşk Höyük (Bor Plain Neolithic Mound) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Niğde Province, Bor District, Central Anatolian plateau, Turkey — Neolithic-Chalcolithic village mound with plastered…
🇺🇸 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.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Archaic to Formative (Tarapacá) · Alta Ramírez–Tarapacá caravan
South-fan geoglyphs at Salar de Huasco: 18 camelid/avenue figures on altiplano pavement at 3,815 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE – 600 CE) · Seleucid / Roman / Byzantine
Antioch's silted harbour basin 600×400 m now meadow at Çevlik with 1.4 km Roman flood tunnel.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age (5000–1000 BCE) · Neolithic Syunik pastoralists, Kura-Araxes, Trialeti, Lchashen-Metsamor
Armenian volcanic lake at 3300 m with 10,000 basalt ibex-chariot petroglyphs.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Pala Period (750–1161 CE) · Pala Mahayana/Vajrayana Buddhist (Bengal)
Great Pala university (770–1200 CE)—330×330 m quadrangle, 208 cells, cruciform temple with 3-m Buddha.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic through Byzantine (Chalcolithic, EBA Karum, Hittite, Phrygian, Byzantine) · Anatolian Chalcolithic → Assyrian Colony (karum) → Hittite → Phrygian
Alişar Höyük (Alişar Village Mound) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Yozgat Province, Sorgun District, Kanak Su valley, Turkey — Fortified karum-colony and Hittite administrative centre on…
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Pseudoarchaeology 1953–2010 (claimed 1600 BCE mega 100m) vs Bronze Thera 1600 moderate · Santorini–Minoan Atlantis pseudexcess
100-m mega-tsunami Atlantis claim on Santorini — cores prove 9 m at Crete versus 100 m.
🇺🇸 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.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Epiclassic (c.500–900 CE); Classic 500–650 CE, Epiclassic fortified 700–900 CE · Northern frontier Chalchihuites–Tunal–Bajío (Mesoamerican northern periphery; Chichimec interaction)
Bajío frontier mesa pyramid (c.500–900 CE) with ballcourt-terrace and copper bells — INAH Cóporo Tunal outpost.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Lower Palaeolithic, Cromerian Complex · Homo antecessor pioneer groups at northern limits of hominin range
850,000-year Homo antecessor family footprints—152 tracks exposed for 14 days before tide erased them.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Mesolithic to Bronze Age · Kukrek, Sredny Stog, Yamnaya and Catacomb
South ridge of Kamyana Mohyla sandstone hill with 30 grottoes, Mesolithic–Bronze Age pecked aurochs and horse-heads.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom (12th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
12th-Dynasty pyramid of Senwosret III at Dahshur North — 105 m base c.1878 BCE, 78 m high, famous for queens' jewellery and hidden entrance.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Serra da Capivara Boqueirão Sítio Central North Ledge in Piauí, Serra da Capivara, Brazil is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Mauryan 3rd c BCE → Sunga 2nd c BCE → Gupta 5th c · Mauryan Buddhist sangha → Sunga
Sanchi mandala outlier 10 km SW — 8 stupas (Stupa 2 relic casket, Brahmi) on Betwa ridge.
