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Prehistoric Architecture Types of buildings and architects
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prehistoric architecture
PREHISTORY: refers to the time
period before people could write,
the time before written records.
•Objects are the documents of
record
•Challenge is to "read" the
nonverbal info found in objects.
•Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) c40,000-8,000 BCE
-- mostly nomadic hunters
•Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) c8,000-7,000 BCE
•Neolithic (New Stone Age) c7,000-2,300 BCE
-- began to settle year-round
LATIN TERMS TO KNOW
PALEO
MESO
NEO
LITH
MEGA
“old”
“middle / between”
“new”
“stone”
“large or great”
Cave Dwellings, Turkey
Chauvet Cave Art32000yrs ago
Ice Age
Lascaux Cave, FrancePaleolithic Era
13000 BC
Caves of Lascaux (France)
The most extensively decorated caves
Altamira, Spain
Brushwood Hut
Wood framed
huts
Round House, Israel
Stilt House
Skara Brae, ScotlandStone Age
Tepees of American Indians
trullo: Southern Italy
yurts : Mongolia
Settlement, Catal Huyuk, Turkey
Woman from Willendorf, Austria
tumulus
menhir
Carnac Megaliths
dolmen
cromlech
Stonehenge, Salisbury Plains
