Archaeological site, Pre-Columbian
Cahokia Mounds
Cahokia Mounds is the most comprehensive example Pre-Columbian civilizations in the Mississipi region, dating from 900-1600.
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Calakmul
Calakmul is one of the largest ancient Maya cities ever uncovered. It flourished between 400 BC to 900 AD, after which the center of Maya power shifted to the north.
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Chaco Culture
The Chaco were an autonomous group within the Anasazi, the dominant native people within the US southwest between 300 and 1500 AD and the ancestors of the modern Pueblo peoples.
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Chan Chan Archaeological Zone
Chan Chan is the largest Pre-Columbian city in South America. It was constructed by the Chimor (the kingdom of the Chimú).
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Chavin
Chavín de Huantar is an archaeological site containing ruins and artifacts originally constructed by the Chavin, a pre-Inca culture, around 900 B.
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Chichen-Itza
Chichen Itza is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, present-day Mexico.
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Copan
The ruins of Copán in western Honduras are one of the most important sites of the Mayan civilization from the Classic era (5th century - 9th century AD).
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El Fuerte de Samaipata
El Fuerte de Samaipata is an archaeological site situated in the eastern foothills of the Bolivian Andes.
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El Tajin
El Tajin is a pre-Columbian archaeological site, that was at its height between 800 and 1200 (after El Tajin
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump bears witness to a custom practiced by native people of the North American plains for nearly 6000 years.
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Joya de Ceren
The Mayan settlement Joya de Ceren was destroyed by volcanic ash around 600 AD. It was only rediscovered in 1976, and archeological excavations are still under way.
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Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu (Quechua: Old Mountain) is a well-preserved pre-Columbian Inca ruin located on a high mountain ridge, at an elevation of about 2,350 m Machu Picchu is located above the Urubamba Valley in modern-day Peru, about 70 km northwest of Cuzco.
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Mesa Verde
Mesa Verde is a testimony to the lost Anasazi civilization, consisting of rock-cut villages on a high plateau in Southwestern Colorado.
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Oaxaca and Monte Alban
The site actually consists of two sites: the historic town of Oaxaca and the nearby archeological site of Monte Alban.
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Palenque
Palenque is a fine example of a Mayan sanctuary of the classical period. The city was at its height between 500 and 700 A.
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Paquimé
Paquime or Casas Grandes is a pre-Columbian archaelogical site. It began as a group of 20 or more house clusters, each with a plaza and enclosing wall.
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Pueblo de Taos
Taos is the best preserved northern pueblo, a traditional type of architectural ensemble from the pre-Hispanic period of the Americas, and has been in continuous use for human settlement until now.
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Quebrada de Humahuaca
The Quebrada de Humahuaca is a narrow mountain valley located in the province of Jujuy in north-west Argentina, about 1,500 km from Buenos Aires.
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Quirigua
Quiriguá is an ancient Maya site. The ruins contain some outstanding 8th-century monuments, that were constructed during the reign of Cauac Sky.
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San Agustín Archaeological Park
San Agustín is a town and municipality in the southern Colombian Department of Huila, known for its pre-Columbian archaeological sites.
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SGaang Gwaii (Anthony Island)
SGaang Gwaii (Anthony Island), an island in the southern part of Gwaii Haanas, was declared a World Heritage Site for the historical importance of the Haida people's art and way of life.
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Teotihuacan
The major monuments at the holy city of Teotihuacan are believed to have been built around 200 AD. After that, the city flourished for 400 years, until a sudden collapse in the middle of the 7th century.
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Tierradentro
Tierradentro is a National archeological park well known for its pre-Columbian hypogea, which were found in several excavations, and are divided in many archeological places.
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Tikal National Park
In the jungle of Tikal, archaeologists discovered more than 3000 pre-Columbian monuments. Among them are palaces, temples, houses, streets and balplaygrounds.
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Tiwanaku
Tiwanaku is an archaeological site that was one of the most important precursors to the Inca Empire, flourishing as the ritual and administrative capital of a major state power for approximately five hundred years.
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Uxmal
Uxmal is a large pre-Columbian ruined city of the Maya civilization in the state of Yucatán, Mexico. Maya chronicles say that Uxmal was founded about 500 by Hun Uitzil Chac Tutul Xiu.
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Xochicalco
Xochicalco is a pre-Columbian archeological site from the transitional Epiclassic Period (ca. 700-900 AD).
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