Stallings Island (Georgia, United States)
Stallings Island is the type site of the Stallings culture, a Late Archaic culture of the Middle Savannah River Valley of South Carolina and Georgia in the American Southeast, dated between approximately 5500 and 3000 years ago. The culture, and the type site in Georgia, contains the earliest recorded pottery in the Americas.Tlachuachero (Chiapas, Mexico)
Tlachuachero is a Chantuto phase shell midden site in Chiapas state, Mexico, that provides evidence for Archaic period shellfish cooking techniques, and the use of shell mounds as occupation locations during the Archaic. Dates from Tlachuachero fall between 3600-2500 BC.
Watson Brake (Louisiana, United States)
At 5500 years old, Watson Brake is the oldest mound recorded in North America; but it is one over a dozen earthworks in the lower Mississippi valley that date between 6000 and 5000 years ago.
Windover Bog (Florida, United States)
The Early Middle Archaic Windover Bog site is a pond cemetery on Florida's Atlantic coast near Cape Canaveral, where nearly pristine preservation allowed the recovery of at least 168 human burials.Xihuatoxtla Shelter (Guerrero, Mexico)
The Xihuatoxtla Shelter is located in the Rio Balsas valley in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, and it has evidence of the earliest maize agriculture to date, as long ago as 9,000 cal BP. The Rio Balsas valley is thought to be the original homeland of teosinte, the progenitor crop for domesticated maize.
