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Acropolis
Date Added: 12th Jun 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Acropolis submitted by Alun on 27th Jan 2004. The Acropolis at Athens is the big rock which all the temples sit on.
The temple you can see peeking over the fortifications is the Parthenon.
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Agua Fria National Monument - Badger Springs Wash
Date Added: 21st Aug 2023
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Mar 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Agua Fria National Monument - Badger Springs Wash submitted by bat400 on 21st Aug 2023. Panel at the Badger Springs Wash site.
Photo by bat400. Taken in March 2023.
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Log Text: I visited on a weekday morning in overcast conditions. In March the vegetation is not as thick as it appears to get later in the year. The trail from the trail head rapidly becomes the spring itself, and although there are places along the left hand bank heading down to the site, You are likely to get your feet wet if there has been recent rain in the area.
This is a beautiful site, with a large pool at the confluence. At this point the Agua Fria canyon is not particularly deep, but at other locations the river is cut deeply into the mesa.
Akrokorinthos
Date Added: 7th Apr 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Greece (Peloponnese Peninsula)
Visited: Saw from a distance. My rating: Ambience 5
Akrokorinthos submitted by Antonios on 24th May 2008. Site in Peloponnese Peninsula, Greece: Acrocorinth.
The walled gates of Acrocorinth from the west, as rebuilt by the Venetians.
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Log Text: Drive to the entrance of the fortress, but it was too late in the day to enter and visit.
Alligator Mound
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 7th Dec 2007
Alligator Mound submitted by bat400 on 7th Dec 2007. Alligator Mound. What you cannot tell from satellite views and most photos of the site is that there would have been a clear view of the effigy from higher ground immediately to the west of the mound. In this photo you can just make out the irregular lines of the mound through the recently planted trees in the upscale neighborhood that surrounds the mound.
Photo - bat400, 3 Nov 2007.
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Anasazi Indian State Park
Date Added: 25th May 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Anasazi Indian State Park submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Dec 2010. Pit house structure at Boulder Anasazi village.
Picture from a 1990 trip, and now faded and deteriorated.
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Ancient clam gardens on Quadra Island
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: Canada
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Ancient clam gardens on Quadra Island submitted by bat400_photo on 4th Apr 2014. Ancient clam gardens on Quadra Island, BC, Canada, are intertidal beach terraces built by humans by constructing a rock wall at low tide typically between 0.7–1.3 m above chart datum.
Quadra Island clam gardens range in size and shape but generally create shallow sloping intertidal terraces encompassing tidal heights of 0.9–1.5 m above chart datum.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0091235.g001
Citation: Groesbeck AS, Rowell K, Lepofsky D, Salomon AK (2014) Ancient Clam Gardens Increased Sh...
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Ancient Plataea
Date Added: 8th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Ancient Plataea submitted by Antonios on 16th Jun 2008. Site in Attica/Central Greece: Ancient Tower at Plataea.
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Log Text: The site is generally covered in unmowed grasses which makes for some small difficulty walking with uneven ground and loose stones underfoot. There is a very obvious oval on high ground (the acropolis?) with a wall, much broken, on it southern border. At the north border, you overlook the valley where the famous battle against the Persians took place At this northern point someone has set a modern column and a small metal shrine (which is empty).
The much better defined wall of larger, more intact stoves, on a NW - SE line, south of the oval described above. It crosses the main road east of the modern town, and is marked there with the typical "Archaeological Site" brown and yellow sign. This wall is very large and shows several towers in the fortification. I'm uncertain if this separate wall dates from the 5th Century BC, or is a later addition, perhaps when Phillip of Macedon is credited with refounding the previously destroyed city.
Angel Mounds
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 11th Apr 2006
Angel Mounds submitted by bat400 on 11th Apr 2006. Angel Mounds Historic Site, Newburgh, Indiana.
Middle Mississipian Village.
Map from Site website, www.angelmounds.org, by permission.
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Angel Mounds - Mound A
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2006
Angel Mounds - Mound A submitted by bat400 on 22nd Jun 2006. Mound A, the "Chief's" Mound, at Angel Mounds, Vanderburgh County, Indiana.
This view is from the south west. Stairs have been installed to allow a visitor to climb to the top of the mound while still preventing errosion. The main excavation at Angel was done by Glenn Black in the 1930's and 40's. He felt that differences in vegetation indicated that a wooden stairway had once existed in the mound on this face.
Photo copyright by bat400, June 2006.
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Angel Mounds - Mound E
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2006
Angel Mounds - Mound E submitted by bat400 on 29th Jun 2006. Mound E - Angel Mounds, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
Earthwork Mound. Platform Mound.
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Angel Mounds - Mound F
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2006
Angel Mounds - Mound F submitted by bat400 on 24th Jun 2006. Angel Mounds - Mound F. Vanderburgh Co., Indiana.
The temple mound. At one time the mound had an ornate high status building on it. Indications are that the building had ritual use.
Photo by bat400.
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Angel Mounds - Mound G
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2006
Angel mounds - Mound G submitted by bat400 on 27th Jun 2006. Mound G - Angel Mounds, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
Conical Earthwork Mound from the Woodland period.
This mound is part of the Angel property but lies outside the town site and was created by people of the Woodland period, well before the Angel Mounds town was built. Its directly on the city street opposite the entrance to the Angel site.
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Angel Mounds Museum
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2006
Angel Mounds Museum submitted by bat400 on 24th Jun 2006. Angel Mounds Historical Site Museum and Visitor's Center.
A view of the exterior. Directly behind the museum building is the footbridge to the large town site.
The building includes the museum, gift shop, WCs, and all you'd expect. But in a twist there are meeting rooms and a kitchen you can rent. Have your wedding and reception at a prehistoric site? You can do it!
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Anokhin Museum
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: Russia
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Anokhin Museum submitted by bat400 on 16th Oct 2013. Princess Ukok/Princess of the Altai: A mummy that was found in 1993 in a kurgan in the remote Ukok Plateau in the Altai Republic in Russia.
Date 2007-01-29 (original upload date,) ru.wikipedia.
Photo uploaded by Kobsev at ru.wikipedia. "This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Kobsev at the wikipedia project. This applies worldwide."
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Archaia Korinthos
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Greece (Peloponnese Peninsula)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st May 2011
Archaia Korinthos submitted by Bjorn on 29th May 2007.
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Arizona Museum of Natural History
Date Added: 13th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2010. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
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Avebury
Date Added: 13th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 1987. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Avebury submitted by h_fenton on 4th Aug 2009. Avebury, Oblique Kite Aerial Photograph
12 July 2009
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Aztalan State Park
Date Added: 31st Mar 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Aztalan State Park submitted by bat400 on 31st Mar 2013. The largest mound at Aztalan is a "stepped" pyramidal structure in the southwest corner of the stockade surround.
This is a partial reconstruction of the site as found in the early 1800's. By the 1920's there had been substantial plowing of the site and significant damage by "pot hunters" and those simply "quarrying" the mounds for fill dirt and the remains of burnt wattle and daub from the original stockade.
Photo by bat400, July 2010.
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Log Text: A Cahokia in miniature. Site interpretation is quite good considering that the park is not monitored for much of its opening times (basically dawn to dusk, daily.) At the parking area, a brief guide to the site is available at an honesty box. Placards around the site describe the ruins and reconstructions visible, as well as archaeological findings.
When I visited (late in the day on a Sunday) the small museum was unmanned.
Aztec Ruins National Monument
Date Added: 25th May 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 27th Apr 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Aztec Ruins National Monument submitted by Creative Commons on 22nd Dec 2018. Aztec Ruins National Monument is located in Northern New Mexico. It was home to the Ancestral Puebloans, who built and lived in the great houses here beginning in the mid 11th century until the late 13th century. The West Ruin, also called the Aztec West Great House, was three stories tall and contained over 500 rooms. Image copyright: Jasperdo, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Badger Hole (Oklahoma)
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: United States (The Plains)
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Badger Hole (Oklahoma) submitted by bat400 on 9th Jul 2012. Bison antiquus, La Brea Tar Pits
7 August 2007
Photo - David Monniaux
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