Famous Archaeology Sites?

Question

what do you think are the most famous archaeology sites in the world and the US?

Answer 1

L'Anse aux meadows

look at my non-correct hat and I think you will know why...lol

Answer 2

and add:

Clovis, New Mexico

Folsom, Ca

Wenatchee Clovis cache

Cactus Hill, Va

Kenniwick, Wa Kenniwick Man

Answer 3

You have a great list of Amazing sites so far listed - just doing a quick correction for you though - Cahokia is actually in IL - just over the river from St. Louis.

Answer 4

There are too many to list, but here is a short list off the top of my head:

Catal Huyuk - Turkey

Port Au Choix - Newfoundland, Canada

L'anse Aux Meadows - Newfoundland, Canada

Ur - Iran

Cahokia- MS, USA

Tikal - Guatemala

Chichen Itza - Mexico

Machu Pichu - Peru

Ozette - WA, USA

Jamesburg - VA, USA

The Great Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe

Teotihuacan - Mexico

Folsom - NM, USA

Shanadar Cave - Kurdistan

Monte Verde - Chile

Monticello - VA, USA

Abbott Farm - NJ, USA

Etowah - GA, USA

Meadowcroft Rockshelter - PA, USA

Spiro - OK, USA

Moundville - Alabama, USA

Giza, and a few dozen more in Egypt

Several dozen in and around Rome and Athens.

Several dozen (mostly now destroyed) in Iraq and Iran.

Answer 5

Some great ones listed so far.  I would also add...

US:

Topper - South Carolina

Mesa Verde - Colorado

Chaco Canyon - New Mexico

Jamestown - Virginia

Cactus Hill - Virginia

Blackwater Draw - New Mexico

Danger Cave - Utah

Others:

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump - Alberta, Canada

Petra - Jordan

'Ain Ghazal - Jordan

Dmanisi - Georgia

Terra Cotta Army - China

Answer 6

There are many and it's not because we don't hear about them that they are not famous. You could check the link. It has many archaeological sites in it and they are all famous enough to get a place in the Unesco World Heritage....I guess that must mean something ;O)

Answer 7

Macoupin County, Illinois.

Answer 8

There are many....

Most famous--Troy, Ephesus, Mycenae, Pyramids,Abu simbel,Parthenon,Delphi,Knossos,the Coloseum in Rome,Stonehenge, easter Island figures

also up there-Carnac in Brittany,the Malta megalithic temples such as Gigantija,Tarxien, the Nile temples such as Karnak & Luxor,avebury UK, Callanish stone circle, Scotland,Newgrange neolithic burial chamber,Ireland

  I am afraid I am not that up on US/Canada sites--though there is a very eerie World Heritage site on the Queen Charlotte islands in BC (ruined native village from 150 years ago.)

Answer 9

Add to that list a few from Asia:

Jericho (Israel) - world's oldest permanent settlement

Uruk (Iraq) - largest of the early Sumerian city-states

Parsagardae (Iran) - ancient capital of Achaemenid Iran

Mohenjo-daro (Pakistan) - largest metropolitan center of the Indus River Valley civilization

Pengtoushan (China) - China's earliest permanently settled village

Erlitou (China) - sites of one of the earliest Bronze Age cultures in East Asia

Qin Mausoleum (China) - site of the famous Bingma Yong, army of terra cotta soldiers interred with the s**+ Huangdi, the first Qin emperor

Angkor (Cambodia) - early center of civilization in Southeast Asia

Answer 10

Pompeii, Machu Picchu, Stonehenge, Colonial Williamsburg, and Giza.