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    The document discusses prehistoric architecture from the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods. During the Paleolithic period, from 40,000 to 8,000 BCE, humans were mostly nomadic hunters. In the Mesolithic, from 8,000 to 7,000 BCE, humans began settling year-round. By the Neolithic, from 7,000 to 2,300 BCE, agriculture developed and more permanent structures like stone homes and villages emerged. The document provides examples of early shelters and structures from different regions, like cave dwellings, brushwood huts, and stone monuments.

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    The document discusses prehistoric architecture from the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods. During the Paleolithic period, from 40,000 to 8,000 BCE, humans were mostly nomadic hunters. In the Mesolithic, from 8,000 to 7,000 BCE, humans began settling year-round. By the Neolithic, from 7,000 to 2,300 BCE, agriculture developed and more permanent structures like stone homes and villages emerged. The document provides examples of early shelters and structures from different regions, like cave dwellings, brushwood huts, and stone monuments.

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    The document discusses prehistoric architecture from the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods. During the Paleolithic period, from 40,000 to 8,000 BCE, humans were mostly nomadic hunters. In the Mesolithic, from 8,000 to 7,000 BCE, humans began settling year-round. By the Neolithic, from 7,000 to 2,300 BCE, agriculture developed and more permanent structures like stone homes and villages emerged. The document provides examples of early shelters and structures from different regions, like cave dwellings, brushwood huts, and stone monuments.

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    The document discusses prehistoric architecture from the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods. During the Paleolithic period, from 40,000 to 8,000 BCE, humans were mostly nomadic hunters. In the Mesolithic, from 8,000 to 7,000 BCE, humans began settling year-round. By the Neolithic, from 7,000 to 2,300 BCE, agriculture developed and more permanent structures like stone homes and villages emerged. The document provides examples of early shelters and structures from different regions, like cave dwellings, brushwood huts, and stone monuments.

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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 Art
    32000yrs ago
    Ice Age
    Lascaux Cave, France
    Paleolithic 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, Scotland
    Stone 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
    Druids celebrating summer solstice

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