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A prehistoric monument consisting of an upright stone, usually standing alone but sometimes aligned with others in parallel rows. (single stones)
MENHIR or MONOLITH
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From the words daul, a table, and maen, a stone; A prehistoric monument consisting of two or more large upright stones supporting a horizontal stone slab or capstone, and usually regarded as a tomb. (multiple stones)
DOLMEN
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A circular arrangement of megaliths enclosing a dolmen or burial mound; Enclosure formed by huge stones planted on the ground in circular form. (multiple stones)
CROMLECH
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Three standing stones, two on the sides and one at the back.
Cove
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A structure consisting of two upright stones supporting a horizontal lintel.
Trilithon
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An artificial mound of earth or stone, especially over an ancient grave.
**TUMULUS**
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\- Use of natural stone/rock formations
\- Cliff dwellings
Rock caves
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Made of reeds, grass, leaves, tree branches, twigs, wattle and daub, etc. and covered or sheathed by animal skin
Huts
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Covered with rush mats and an animal skin door and use of wooden poles as a framework
Tents
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constructed of hard packed snow blocks built up spirally
Igloo
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Covered with split reed mats, built on a reed platform to prevent settlement
Iraqi Mudhif
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Built with timber and palm leaves with livestock underneath
Sumatran house
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One of the world’s oldest continually inhabited city and with plaster floors, surrounded by high walls and towers
Jericho
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One of the earliest Neolithic villages and utilized a complex architectural system built according to a preconceived plan, suggesting a structured social organization.
Khirokitia
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Largest and most well-preserved Neolithic village. It is consisted of rectangular flat roofed houses packed together into a single architectural mass and has no streets or passageways.
Catal Huyuk
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referring to the time before people recording history in writing
prehistory
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known as modern man who lives a longest period in the past
homo sapiens
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refers to the time after invention of writing
History
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It traces the origin, growth and decline of architectural styles which have prevailed lands and ages
History of Architecture
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Why did man seek shelter?
· Protection from elements of nature and wild animals
· Comfort to sleep and rest
· Food storage
· Perpetuation of human life
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3 stages in the cultural evolution of man
Stone age
Bronze age
Iron age
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What period when they used stone and bone as instruments?
Paleolithic or Old stone age
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What period when the livelihood is hunting and food gathering?
Paleolithic or Old stone age
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What period when they learned to make fire?
Paleolithic or Old stone age
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What period when they lived in caves and rock shelters?
Paleolithic or Old stone age
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What period when they fashioned stone tools like a bow?
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
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What period when they made body coverings from the animal hides?
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
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What period when they made the canoe for fishing?
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
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What period when they build huts made from bones, animal hides, reeds, and grass?
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
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What period when they polished stone tools for grinding, cutting & chopping?
Neolithic or New Stone Age
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What period when the pottery developed?
Neolithic or New Stone Age
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What period when they do agriculture and domesticated animals?
Neolithic or New Stone Age
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What period when they sew clothing from animal hides using fish bones as needles?
Neolithic or New Stone Age
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What period when they build huts of stones and mud with thatched roofing?
Neolithic or New Stone Age
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What period when they practiced burial rituals and built tombs?
Neolithic or New Stone Age
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The packed clay walls of earlier times were replaced by those constructed of prefabricated units
Mud bricks
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Structures such as tombs used for rituals and burial for the dead
Funerary buildings
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Usually associated with ritual ceremonial activities and activities may be related to religion
Ritual buildings
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Evidence of the first practices of religion and buildings used for rituals related to worship and religion
religious buildings
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Structure served as places for the dead and places for tracking the course of time and understanding the cosmos
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