ARCH HISTORY Study Guide Unit 1

Stonehenge time period

3000 BCE to 1800 BCE

Stonehenge location

Near Salisbury, UK

Mjandra Temple time period

2000 BCE

Mjandra Temple location

Malta

Trabeation

System of construction that uses horizontal beams or lintels placed across vertical posts

Dolmen

Megalithic monument made of 2 or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone

Buttress

Exterior support projecting from a wall to reinforce and resist lateral forces

Vault

An arched ceiling

Vernacular

Architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings

Neolithic

The later part of the Stone Age when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed (New Stone Age)

Megalithic

Relating to or denoting prehistoric monuments made of or containing large stones

Relief sculpture

A work in which the figures project from a supporting background, usually a plane surface.

Mud brick

Sun dried clay or mud bricks, used as building materials