NORTH AMERICA

Cave-In-Rock and America’s river pirates

Cave-In-Rock, also known as Murrell's Cave and Potato Cave, is a 17-metre-wide riverside cave located in the town of Cave-in-Rock, State of Illinois, United States.

La Quemada – The Mysterious Mesoamerican Complex

La Quemada is a Mesoamerican complex located on a small, central mountain in the Malpaso Valley of central Zacatecas, Mexico.

Los Guachimontones

Los Guachimontones was a ceremonial centre attributed to the Teuchitlán Culture, located near the present-day town of Teuchitlán in the state of Jalisco, Mexico.

Cuicuilco – The Mesoamerican City Destroyed by a Volcano

Cuicuilco is a Mesoamerican city that was located on the southern shores of Lake Texcoco, in what is now the present-day borough of Tlalpan in Mexico City.

Tzintzuntzan – The City of Rounded Pyramidal Yácata

Tzintzuntzan meaning “place of hummingbirds” was the capital of the Purépecha state (also called the Tarascan state), located adjacent to Lake Pátzcuaro in the municipality of Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico.

The Great Serpent Mound

The Great Serpent Mound is a large mound effigy representing a snake with a curled tail, that was constructed on the site of a classic astrobleme formed from the impact crater of an eroded meteorite that impacted less than 320 million years in the state of Ohio in the United States.

Moundville – The Mound Metropolis of the Mississippian Culture

The Moundville Archaeological Site is an ancient tribal centre of the Mississippian culture, that built a large settlement comprising of raised mounds in the present-day state of Alabama near the banks of the Black Warrior River, in the United States.

The Etowah Mounds Metropolis of the South Appalachian Mississippian Culture

The Etowah Mounds is an ancient tribal centre of the South Appalachian Mississippian culture, that built a large settlement comprising of raised mounds located on the shore of the Etowah River, in the present Bartow County, Georgia, of the United States.

Kincaid Mounds – The Mound Metropolis of Illinois

The Kincaid Mounds is an ancient tribal centre of the Mississippian culture that built a large settlement comprising of raised mounds, in the present-day state of Illinois near the banks of the Ohio River, in the United States.

Brunswick Town – The Abandoned Colonial Town in North Carolina

Brunswick Town was a major colonial trading port in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina, that was abandoned during the on-set of the American Revolutionary War in 1775.

L’Anse aux Meadows – The Viking Settlement in Canada

L'Anse aux Meadows is an archaeological site, and the remains of a Norse settlement in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The Ancient Mound & Ridge Complex of the Poverty Point Culture

Poverty Point, named after a 19th-century plantation, is an archaeological site and an ancient ceremonial mound and ridge complex, located on the Bayou Macon in present-day Louisiana in the United States.

Chetro Ketl – The Great House

Chetro Ketl is an archaeological site, and the ancient ruins of an Ancestral Puebloan settlement, located in the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, United States of America.

The Gila Cliff Dwellings

The Gila Cliff Dwellings is an archaeological site, and ancient settlement constructed by the pueblos Mimbres branch of the Mogollon, located in southwest New Mexico of the United States of America.

Pueblo Bonito – The Great House

Pueblo Bonito is an archaeological site and Puebloan “Great House”, located in modern-day New Mexico, in the United States.

Cahokia – North America’s First City

Cahokia was the largest urban settlement to develop from the Mississippian culture, a mound-building pre-Columbian civilisation that developed in the Midwestern, Eastern, and South-eastern United States.

The Sinagua and Montezuma Castle

The Sinagua was a pre-Columbian civilisation from AD 500 to 1425 that lived primarily in what is now Arizona, USA.

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