Placemarks Download:

Archaeogeodesy Placemarks, Ancient Monuments in Google Earth v2024  
Spanning the globe, more than 15,000 placemarks of ancient monuments and anthropogenic features visible in satellite imagery, created during a decade of space archaeology applied to ancient monument research. This file includes the 7,500+ monuments with coordinates in the Excel applet. The current placemarks version no longer embeds the 5,000 Panoramio photos I selected for archaeological value. Google deleted the Panoramio domain. More photos have recently been restored or added using the Web Archive.

Download - 8.7 MB Google Earth file: jqjacobs.net/kml/archaeogeodesy.kml
 

ArchaeoGeodesy Applet v2024
Updated Excel application includes new sites from Amazon surveys and other recent research. This applet employs the terse, five digit site labels in the archaeogeodesy KML file to input the latitude and longitude of the monuments.

Download - 3.3 MB Excel file: jqjacobs.net/astro/xls/archaeogeodesy.xls
 

Updated KML Files

Machupicchu Sites KML has Panoramio photo embeds restored using the Web Archive versions of the file, updated coordinates, and more placemarks. This KML is sites only, linked below the version with results placemarks. Download jqjacobs.net/andes/kml/machupicchu.kml — 200 KB.

Southwest Archaeology KML v2020 is reformatted with larger photo embeds and includes all individual site KML files in one southwest folder. Download jqjacobs.net/kml/southwest.kml — 91 KB.

2021 updates  —  Amazon Geoglyphs  —  Poverty Point  —  France
 

Recent KML Files

The contents of placemarks balloons with research results will seem esoteric without the context of related articles. For those unfamiliar with the AeGeo code terms and my previous writings and KML files, a discussion in Casma-Sechin Archaeogeodesy is intended to help overcome the obstacle.

• Machupicchu Archaeogeodesy:  machupicchu.kml
• Chavin de Huantar Archaeogeodesy:  chavin.kml
• Casma-Sechin Archaeogeodesy:  sechin.kml
• Golden Mean Longitudes:  phi_golden_ratios.kml
• The Heart of Neolithic Orkney:  orkney.kml
• Three Monuments, Two Astronomy Ratios:  cahokia_3650.kml
• Emperor Qin and the Golden Mean:  qin.kml
• Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park:  pinson.kml
• Poverty Point Earthworks:  poverty_point.kml
• Tumichucua, Newark, and Pi:  tumichucua.kml
• Space Archaeology in the Amazon:  bolivia.kml  amazon_geoglyphs.kml

Further Reading

The archaeoastronomy and archaeogeodesy writings also provide context for the placemarks and research results.

• Machupicchu Archaeogeodesy
• Chavin de Huantar Archaeogeodesy
• Casma-Sechin Archaeogeodesy
• Ancient Monument Latitudes Evidence Accurate Astronomy
• Newark Archaeogeodesy Assessing Evidence of Geospatial Intelligence in the Americas
• Eclipses, Cosmic Clockwork of the Ancients includes fundamental astronomy and astronomy code terms.
• Hundreds of Geoglifos Discovered in the Amazon exemplifies how satellite imagery has revealed past cultures.

Panoramio and the Deprecated KML Files

• The Web Archive preserves my deprecated 2017.12.30 placemarks webpage: jqjacobs.net/archaeo/sites

You can also find the Panoramio photos Google deleted from the web in the Web Archive. If a photo no longer appears in one of my previous placemarks, click the link below it and copy the URL of the missing web page, then go to the Web Archive home page and paste the URL in the search bar. Be aware that you may need to click another link to arrive at the image when a Panoramio Page Not Found result is shown. Look for a text link stating the number of captures of the page and click that link, then click a highlighted date button. The pages are no longer fully functional, nonetheless they remain useful to archaeology researchers.