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Tagsisland
5 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate (Atacameño 900–1400 CE) · Atacameño Likan Antai Sur-crossing caravans
14 halite-island figures on Sur central playa 2280 m: camelids + bisected arrow on gypsum isle amid brine sheet.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan to Meroitic and Christian (680 BCE–500 CE) · Kushite (Napatan/Meroitic)
Kushite temple mound on Argo Island (Taharqa, 700 BCE), 75.6 m Amun temple, 15 m high mound.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian Pensacola phase (1250–1550 CE) · Mississippian (Pensacola culture)
Pensacola-Mississippian island capital (1250–1550 CE) on low swamp island (0.4 sq km) in Mobile-Tensaw Delta: 18 platform and burial mounds (largest Mound A 11 m high 90×60 m) enclosing 5 plazas on…
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
Mississippian (Hiwassee Island / Dallas) · Mississippian (Tennessee Valley)
Type site Hiwassee Island phase (900–1400 CE) — 5 mounds at Tennessee-Hiwassee confluence.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
St Johns I–II 1000 BCE–1500 CE · St Johns (Mayaou Timucua)
Shell-midden island famous for 6 m buried wooden owl totem (600 CE) and snail-shell ridges.
