Sites

Public, interpreted archaeological sites: what was found, who manages them, and the rule that nothing may be collected.

A

Agrigento Valley of the Temples— Ancient Greece, Roman, 580 BCE–400 CE
Alibates Flint Quarries— Plains Village, Clovis, 11000 BCE–1500 CE
Altamira— Magdalenian, Solutrean, 36000–13000 BCE
Angel Mounds— Mississippian, 1100–1450 CE
Anyang (Yinxu)— Imperial China, 1300–1046 BCE
Athens Agora— Ancient Greece, Roman, 600 BCE–600 CE
Avebury— 2850–2200 BCE
Aztalan— Mississippian, Cahokia, 1050–1250 CE
Aztec Ruins— Ancestral Puebloan, 1100–1300 CE

B

Babylon— 1900 BCE–100 CE
Bandelier— Ancestral Puebloan, 1150–1550 CE
Bibracte— La Tène, Roman, 200–20 BCE
Blackwater Draw— Clovis, Folsom, 11050–8000 BCE

C

Cahokia Mounds— Cahokia, Mississippian, 1050–1350 CE
Calakmul— Maya, 400 BCE–900 CE
Canyon de Chelly— Ancestral Puebloan, 350–1300 CE
Caracol— Maya, 600 BCE–900 CE
Carnac— 4500–3300 BCE
Casa Grande Ruins— Hohokam, 1150–1450 CE
Chaco Canyon— Ancestral Puebloan, 850–1250 CE
Chan Chan— 900–1470 CE
Chavín de Huántar— Chavín, 1200–500 BCE
Chichén Itzá— Maya, 600–1200 CE
Copán— Maya, 400–850 CE

Ç

Çatalhöyük— 7400–5600 BCE

D

Delphi— Ancient Greece, 800 BCE–400 CE
Dickson Mounds— Mississippian, Woodland (Eastern), 800–1250 CE

E

Effigy Mounds— Woodland (Eastern), 500–1200 CE
Ephesus— Ancient Greece, Roman, 1000 BCE–600 CE
Epidaurus— Ancient Greece, Roman, 600 BCE–400 CE
Etowah Indian Mounds— Mississippian, 1000–1550 CE

F

Fishbourne Roman Palace— Roman, 43–280 CE
Flint Ridge— Hopewell, Adena, Archaic (Eastern), 8000 BCE–1600 CE
Folsom Site— Folsom, 10800–10200 BCE

G

Gila Cliff Dwellings— Mogollon, 1275–1300 CE
Giza— Dynastic Egypt, 2600–2450 BCE
Göbekli Tepe— 9500–8000 BCE
Grave Creek Mound— Adena, 250–150 BCE

H

Hadrian's Wall— Roman, 122–410 CE
Hallstatt— Hallstatt, La Tène, 1300–400 BCE
Hattusa— Hittite, 1650–1180 BCE
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump— Plains Archaic, 3800 BCE–1800 CE
Herculaneum— Roman, 600 BCE–79 CE
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park— Hopewell, 100 BCE–400 CE
Hovenweep— Ancestral Puebloan, 1200–1300 CE

K

Karnak— Dynastic Egypt, 2000–30 BCE
Knossos— 1900–1350 BCE

L

L'Anse aux Meadows— Viking, 990–1050 CE
La Venta— Olmec, 900–400 BCE
Lascaux— Magdalenian, 17000–15000 BCE

M

Machu Picchu— Inca, 1450–1572 CE
Masada— Roman, 37 BCE–74 CE
Meadowcroft Rockshelter— Archaic (Eastern), Clovis, 14000 BCE–1700 CE
Mesa Verde— Ancestral Puebloan, 550–1300 CE
Mohenjo-daro— 2500–1900 BCE
Monte Albán— Zapotec, 500 BCE–900 CE
Moundville— Mississippian, 1120–1450 CE
Mycenae— 1600–1100 BCE

N

Nazca Lines— Nazca, 500 BCE–500 CE
Newark Earthworks— Hopewell, 100 BCE–400 CE

O

Ocmulgee Mounds— Mississippian, 900–1150 CE
Ollantaytambo— Inca, 1440–1540 CE
Olympia— Ancient Greece, 800 BCE–400 CE
Ostia Antica— Roman, 400 BCE–500 CE

P

Paestum— Ancient Greece, Roman, 600 BCE–500 CE
Palenque— Maya, 400–800 CE
Persepolis— 518–330 BCE
Petra— Roman, 300 BCE–700 CE
Pinson Mounds— Woodland (Eastern), Hopewell, 1–500 CE
Pompeii— Roman, 600 BCE–79 CE
Poverty Point— Poverty Point, 1700–1100 BCE

R

Roman Baths, Bath— Roman, 60–400 CE

S

Saqqara— Dynastic Egypt, 2900–30 BCE
Serpent Mound— Adena, Fort Ancient, 300 BCE–1100 CE
Sipán— Moche, 100–700 CE
Skara Brae— 3180–2500 BCE
Spiro Mounds— Caddo, Mississippian, 900–1450 CE
Stonehenge— Bell Beaker, 3000–1600 BCE
Sutton Hoo— Anglo-Saxon, 590–650 CE

T

Tarquinia necropolis— Etruscan, Villanovan, 700–200 BCE
Teotihuacan— Teotihuacan, 100–650 CE
Terracotta Army— Imperial China, 246–206 BCE
Tikal— Maya, 600 BCE–900 CE
Toltec Mounds— Woodland (Eastern), 650–1050 CE
Troy— 3000 BCE–500 CE

U

Ur— Sumerian, 3800–500 BCE
Uxmal— Maya, 700–1000 CE

V

Vindolanda— Roman, 85–400 CE

W

Wupatki— Ancestral Puebloan, 1085–1250 CE