Chumash Painted Cave

Small sandstone cave with red, white and black paintings that depict the cosmology of Chumash people. Age is unknown, between 200 and 1000 years.

Blythe Intaglios

Large geoglyphs (gigantic figures on flat surface). The largest geoglyph is 52 m long depiction of a human. In this area are located several dozen such figures and also a labyrinth – Topock Maze. Age is unknown.

Swan Point

One of the oldest dated archaeological sites in Alaska, from 12,300 BC. Finds have cultural similarities to Siberian cultures.

Petroglyph Beach

Some 40 different signs and symbols have been hewn in the boulders and rock outcrops at the sea. It is possible that these symbols are even 8000 years old.

Onion Portage Archaeological District in Alaska

Prehistoric settlement at the caribou migration river crossing point. This site has been inhabited by numerous cultures from 6500 BC to 1700 AD and its research has helped to build the cultural chronology in this region.

Broken Mammoth

One of the oldest archaeological sites in Alaska, inhabited in 9,000 – 10,000 BC. It is possible that inhabitants of this village hunted mammoths.

Adamagan

Ancient centre of Aleuts. Around 1 100 BC – 100 AD there lived up to 1000 people. There were built more than 250 subterranean houses and numerous storage pits.

Fig Island shell rings

A group of shell rings – ring-shaped shell middens that are up to 6 meters high. The largest ring has a diameter of some 40 m. These mounds were made some 4400 – 3600 years ago. This might be the most complex system of shell rings in North America.

Rano Raraku quarry

One of the visually most impressive megalithic monuments of the world. Rano Raraku in 1200 – 1700 AD served as a mine of moai. 397 sculptures are still located in situ, half-made, or left on the way to their destinations. Here is located the largest moai weighing 270 tons and 21.6 m tall, many times larger than any transported moai.

Terracotta Army

Unique monument of culture: buried terracotta sculptures – army soldiers near the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, made roughly at 210 BC. In total there have been buried more than 8,000 sculptures of soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses, and 150 cavalry horses, all made in live size and bigger, all depicting individual people.