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A geoglyph is a large design or motif – generally longer than 4 metres (13 ft) – produced on the ground by durable elements of the landscape, such as stones, stone fragments, gravel, or earth.
The Cerne Abbas Giant chalk figure, near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England, is made by a turf-cut. The Uffington White Horse at Uffington, Oxfordshire The 18th-century Westbury White Horse near Westbury, Wiltshire. A hill figure is a large visual representation created by cutting into a steep hillside and revealing the underlying ...
This is a list of hillside letters (also known as mountain monograms), large geoglyphs found primarily in the Western United States. [1] [2] [3] There are about 600 in total, but the status of many of these symbols are uncertain, due to vagueness in sources. The states with the most hillside letters are: Montana: 86 monograms; California: 83 ...
The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric hill figure, 110 m (360 ft) [1] long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk.The figure is situated on the upper slopes of Whitehorse Hill in the English civil parish of Uffington in Oxfordshire, some 16 km (10 mi) east of Swindon, 8 km (5.0 mi) south of the town of Faringdon and a similar distance west of the town of Wantage; or 2. ...
Geoglyphs look like massive line drawings carved into the ground, photos show. The newly discovered drawings are about 2,000 years old, dating between 100 B.C. and 300 A.D., researchers said. A ...
755±65 – 890±65: likely dates of the Blythe Geoglyphs being sculpted by ancestral Quechan and Mojave peoples in the Colorado Desert, California [4] 700–800: Ancestral Pueblo people of the American Southwest or Oasisamerica transition from pit houses to multi-story adobe and stone apartments called pueblos.
Black Mountain (Pima County, Arizona) Cocoraque Butte Archaeological District; Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve; Honanki; Huerfano Butte (Arizona) Keyhole Sink
Sacred Places North America: 108 Destinations. CCC Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-1-888729-13-9. von Werlhof, Jay, Harry Casey, Ronald I. Dorn, and Glenn A. Jones. AMS 14 C Age Constraints on Geoglyphs in the Lower Colorado River Region, Arizona and California. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 10:257–73. 1995. Welfare, Simon and Fairley ...