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Cantilevered

A long projecting beam or girder fixed at only one end, used chiefly in bridge construction.

Carbon 14 Dating

A method of measuring the decay rate of carbon isotopes in organic matter to determine the age of organic materials such as wood and fiber.

Composite View

A method in which artists depict the human form in its most recognizable form using a combination of profile and frontal features together.

Composition

The way in which an artist organizes forms in an artwork, either by placing shapes on a flat surface or arranging forms in space.

Conceptual Representation

The representation of the fundamental distinguishing properties of a person or object, not the way a figure or object appears at a specific moment.

Cong

A tubular object with a circular hole cut into a square-like cross section.

Contour line

A continuous line defining the outer shape of an object.

Courses

A horizontal row of stone blocks in masonry construction.

Incise

To cut into a surface with a sharp instrument, especially to decorate metal and pottery.

Landscape

A picture of a natural setting without any narrative content.

Life-size

Actual or full size.

Megalith

A large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures.

Menhir

A large uncut stone erected as a monument in the prehistoric era; a standing stone.

Mortar

The glue in stone wall construction, used in dry masonry.

Mural

A wall painting.

Neolithic

The "new" Stone Age.

Passage Grave

A prehistoric tomb with a long stone corridor leading to a burial chamber covered by a great tumulus.

Paleolithic

The "old" Stone Age, during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings.

Post-and-lintel

A system of construction in which two posts support a lintel.

Relief

In sculpture, figures projecting from a background of which they are part, designated by high, low/bas, or sunken relief.

Representation

To stand for or symbolize; to depict or portray subjects a viewer may recognize as having a likeness.

Shaman

A person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and North America.

Strict profile

A method in which artists depict an animal in its most recognizable form using a combination of profile and frontal features together.

Therianthrope

Any mystical being which is part human, part animal.

Trilithons

A pair of vertical monoliths topped with a lintel; literally means three & stone.