ARCH 2210 Module 1

Vocabulary practice flashcards generated from Module 1 quiz notes on ancient architectural sites, structures, and chronological terms.

The image shows

A temple at Gobekli Tepe, Turkey

The image shows

Great Bath of Mohenjo-daro, Indus Valley Civilization

A Native American tent structure like the one in the image is called

Tipi

Which ancient culture built extensive infastructural projects, but almost no large monuments and palaces?

Harappan

Order the following sites by age from oldest to the most recent

Mohenjo Daro

Jericho

Blombos Cave

Cahokia

Blombos Cave

Jericho

Mohenjo Daro

Cahokia.

Single upright megalith like the one in the image is known as a

Menhir

The wall paintings belong to the ___ site in today’s ___

Catalhoyuk, Turkey

Which of the ancient settlements had a wall around it

Jericho

The houses in ancient Catalhoyuk were entered

From the roof

The image shows a reconstruction of ancient ___ dating back to ___

Jericho, 7000 BCE

The inhabitants of Lepenski Vir on the river Danube constructed

Trapezoidal huts based on a modular triangular geometry with a single interior hearth

The image shows a museum reconstruction of a ___ constructed by the ___ people

Longhouse, Iroquois

The Kostyonki site in Russia contains some of the oldest remnants of human inhabitation with structure consisting of

Mammoth bones

Which of the following types of structure is NOT found at Stonehenge

Corbel arch

A dolmen is a type of

Megalithic structure

The image shows the plan of the ___ site in ___ Louisiana

Poverty Point, Louisiana

The type of structure consisting of two upright posts and a horizontal beam at the top is known as

Post and lintel

The image above shows ___ in ___

The Nazca Lines, Peru

A kofun is an ancient artificial mound found in

Japan

Match the site and their features

Sites: Carnac, Stonehenge, Lepenski Vir, Gobekli Tepe, Cahokia

Features: trapezoidal plan huts, mounds, trilithons, t-shaped columns, alignments of menhirs

Carnac —— alignments of menhirs

Stonehenge —— trilithons

Lepenski Vir —— trapezoidal plan huts

Gobekli Tepe —— T-shaped columns

Cahokia —— mounds

Order the ancient North American sites listed by age from the oldest to the most recent

Great Serpent Mound, Ohio

Watson Break, Louisiana

Cahokia Mounds, Illinois

Watson Break, Louisiana

Great Serpent Mound, Ohio

Cahokia Mounds, Illinois

Identify the structure in the image

Stonehenge

A very large, usually rough stone used among First Societies as a monument or building block is called

A megalith

Large designs inscribed into the surface of the landscape, sometimes on an enormous scale, are called

Geoglyphs

The image shows the reconstruction of

Cahokia Mounds Historic Site in Collinsville, Illinois

The cave containing the famous drawings shown in the photo is called

Lascaux

The natural pigment ranging from yellow to red and widely used among first societies across the world is called

Ochre

In the past 100 years, the human population on Earth

Quadrupled

The proposed geological epoch defined by the human action on the environment on Earth is called

Anthropocene

Our current geological epoch, which started with the end of the last ice age more than 11,000 years ago, is called the

Holocene

In many parts of the world the arrival of humans appears to correlate with

The extinction of large mammals, such as the woolly mammoth

Which of the following sites does NOT belong to the Indus Valley Civilization: Jericho, Dholavira, Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa

Jericho

Humans last reached

South America

The principle material that gave rise to the building type known as the longhouse is

Timber

According to current scientific finds, our own species, Homo sapiens, first emerged around

315,000 years old

What is the predominant material used in the construction of cities in the ancient Indus Valley Civilization

Brick waterproofed with bitumen (asphalt)

The image shows

A plan of the Neolithic settlement at Catalhoyuk, Turkey

The huts with elaborate trapezoidal plans and rectangular fireplaces, shown in the picture, belong to

The archeological site of Lepenski Vir, Serbia, 9,500-6,000 BCE

Humans first emerged

In east africa