Search places, or jump to a section
Tagscontact-era
2 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Postclassic to Contact (900–1697 CE, capital 1350–1697) · Maya Itzá (Yukatekan-Itza’)
Last independent Maya kingdom (Nojpetén) of the Itzá, final surrender to Spanish 1697 after 195 years resisting conquest: peninsula-town on Lake Petén Itzá's northern arm 300 m out, with causewayed…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Plaquemine–historic Natchez (1200–1730 CE, observed 1682–1729) · Natchez (Plaquemine descendant – Muskogean)
Historic Natchez capital (1682–1729) directly observed by French colonists (Iberville, Le Page du Pratz), linking archaeology to eyewitness chiefdom: two platform mounds—Great Sun's Mound A (3.5 m,…
