Archaeological Sites in USA
Petroglyphs in USA (15)
Cocoraque Butte Archaeological District
The Cocoraque Butte Archaeological District is located in Ironwood Forest National Monument in Pima County, Arizona. It features ancient Hohokam ruins, hundreds of well-preserved…
Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
The Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve, formerly known as the Deer Valley Rock Art Center, is a 47-acre nature preserve featuring over 1500 Hohokam, Patayan, and Archaic petroglyphs…
Dighton Rock
The Dighton Rock is a 40-ton boulder composed of sandstone, originally located in the riverbed of the Taunton River at Berkley, Massachusetts, formerly part of the town of…
Hemet Maze Stone
The Hemet Maze Stone is a prehistoric petroglyph. It is just outside Hemet, in Reinhardt Canyon, within the Lakeview Mountains, in Riverside County, California. The stone and its…
Honanki Heritage Site
Honanki 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…
Judaculla Rock
Judaculla Rock is a curvilinear-shaped outcrop of soapstone known for its ancient carvings and petroglyphs. The petroglyph boulder occurs within a man-made bowl-shaped depression.…
Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument
Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument is a Utah state monument featuring a rock panel carved with one of the largest known collections of petroglyphs. It is located in San Juan…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Tutuveni
Tutuveni is a prehistoric petroglyph site at the base of Echo Cliffs in Coconino County, Arizona. The Hopi refer to it as "Tutuveni" meaning "Newspaper Rock". The site was used by…
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…
White Tank Mountain Regional Park
The White Tank Mountain Regional Park is a large regional park located in west-central Maricopa County, Arizona. The bulk of the White Tank Mountains range is located within the…
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.
City/town/settlement in USA (2)
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…
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument (O'odham: Siwañ Waʼa Ki: or Sivan Vahki) is a United States national monument preserving a group of Classic Period (1150–1450 CE) Hohokam…
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