Archaeological Sites in USA
America's Stonehenge
A controversial archaeological site spread across 12 hectares in Salem, New Hampshire, formerly known as Mystery Hill. It consists of stone chambers, standing stones, walls, and a large flat stone…
Black Mountain (Pima County, Arizona)
A lava-capped mesa in Pima County, Arizona, rising 305 m above its base to an altitude of 1,128 m. Atop the mesa lie the ruins of an ancient Hohokam fortification dating to approximately AD 300-1500,…
Blythe Intaglios
The Blythe Intaglios are a group of giant geoglyphs near Blythe, California, in the Colorado Desert, comprising three human figures, two four-legged animals, and a spiral. The largest human figure…
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Cahokia Mounds is the largest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico, occupying roughly 5 square miles of the Mississippi River floodplain in southwestern Illinois. Flourishing from c. 950 to 1350…
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument in Coolidge, Arizona preserves the largest protected Hohokam site in the United States. The centerpiece is the four-story Great House, completed around 1350 AD…
Cocoraque Butte Archaeological District
The Cocoraque Butte Archaeological District is located in Ironwood Forest National Monument in Pima County, Arizona [1]. It features ancient Hohokam ruins, hundreds of well-preserved petroglyphs…
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
The Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve is a 47-acre nature preserve in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring over 1,500 Hohokam, Patayan, and Archaic petroglyphs carved onto 500 basalt boulders [1]. The rock art…
Dighton Rock
The Dighton Rock is a 40-ton glacial boulder composed of sandstone that originally sat in the riverbed of the Taunton River in Berkley, Massachusetts[1]. The carvings have generated controversy…
East Bay Walls
East Bay Walls (also called Berkeley Mystery Walls) are crude stone walls found throughout the hills surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area, extending as far as Chico, Red Bluff and Montague,…
Great Serpent Mound
The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-foot-long (411m), four-feet-high prehistoric effigy mound located in Peebles, Ohio[1]. It was built on the Serpent Mound crater plateau, running along Ohio Brush…
Hemet Maze Stone
The Hemet Maze Stone is a prehistoric petroglyph located in Reinhardt Canyon within the Lakeview Mountains just outside Hemet, California [1]. On April 16, 1956, Mr. and Mrs. Rodger E. Miller donated…
Honanki Heritage Site
Honanki ("Bear House" in Hopi) is a cliff dwelling and rock art site in Coconino National Forest, about 24 km west of Sedona, Arizona. The Sinagua people lived here from roughly 1100 to 1300 AD in an…
Huerfano Butte (Arizona)
Huerfano Butte ("Orphan Butte") is a prehistoric Hohokam archaeological site on the western flank of the Santa Rita Mountains in Pima County, Arizona, utilized from c. 1100 CE. The granite outcrops…
Judaculla Rock
Judaculla Rock is a curvilinear-shaped soapstone outcrop in Western North Carolina featuring ancient petroglyphs and carvings. The archaeological site occupies an 0.85-acre rectangular property owned…
Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark
The Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark is a stone structure in Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming. The large structure consists of local white limestone laid upon a limestone…
Miami Circle
The Miami Circle is a prehistoric timber circle site in Brickell, Miami, Florida, dating to 500 BC–1 AD [1]. It features a perfect circle 38 feet (11.5m) in diameter, defined by 600 postmolds…
Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument
(1st–5th c. AD) Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument is a Utah state monument featuring one of the largest and most dense collections of petroglyphs in North America [1]. The rock panel is located…
Northern Avenue Petroglyph Site
The Northern Avenue Petroglyph Site is a 0.2-acre archaeological site in Kingman, Arizona, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Also designated AZ F:12:22(ASM), the site…
Painted Rock Petroglyph Site
The Painted Rock Petroglyph Site near Gila Bend, Arizona, is the largest known petroglyph concentration in the region with approximately 800 images pecked onto weathered basalt boulders overlaying a…
Palatki Heritage Site
The Palatki Heritage Site is located in the Coconino National Forest near Sedona, Arizona. Named "red house" in the Hopi language, it features Sinagua cliff dwellings built into red sandstone alcoves…
Petroglyph Beach State Historic Park
Petroglyph Beach State Historic Park is an archaeological site on the shore of Wrangell, Alaska, featuring the highest concentration of Native American petroglyphs in southeastern Alaska [1]. Located…
Rock City
Rock City is a geological formation located just outside Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. Visitors traverse the 1,250-metre (4,100 ft) Enchanted Trail to view iconic formations including Mushroom Rock,…
Saguaro National Park
Saguaro National Park in southeastern Arizona preserves extensive rock art created by the Hohokam people, who inhabited the region from approximately 300 to 1450 AD. The Signal Hill site in the…
Tumamoc Hill
Tumamoc Hill is a prominent butte west of downtown Tucson, Arizona, considered the longest continuously inhabited site in the United States, with evidence of maize cultivation dating back 4,100…
Tutuveni
Tutuveni, meaning "Newspaper Rock" in Hopi, is the largest known collection of Hopi clan symbols in the American Southwest, containing over 5,000 petroglyphs across eight sandstone boulders at the…
V Bar V Heritage Site
The V Bar V Heritage Site, renamed Crane Petroglyph Heritage Site in 2024, is the largest known petroglyph site in Arizona's Verde Valley. Its sandstone bluff bears 1,032 petroglyphs in 13 panels,…
White Tank Mountain Regional Park
White Tank Mountain Regional Park, located 25 miles west of Phoenix in Maricopa County, Arizona, contains 11 archaeological sites attributed to the Hohokam, occupied between AD 500 and 1100. These…
Winnemucca Lake Petroglyphs
Winnemucca Lake is home to several petroglyphs dated to between 14,800 and 10,500 years ago. Either date would make them the oldest known petroglyphs found in North America.