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Title: 3 - Prehistory

Description: Chapter 3 Terms

Total Flash Cards: 13

Created: 12/19/2006 17:34:45

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Term
Paleolithic Age
Definition
Old Stone Age - 150,000 BC to 8,000 BC
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Mesolithic
Definition
Middle Stone Age - 8000 BC to 6000 BC
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Neolithic
Definition
New Stone Age - 6000 BC to 2000 BC / 1000 BC
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"Lithic"
Definition
of stone
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Menhirs
Definition
slightly shapen hewn upright stones, either individually or in clusters
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Dolmens
Definition
"table" - post and lintel construction - series made tombs or passageways
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Cromlechs
Definition
(First form of architecture) - menhirs in a circle or semicircle formation
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tenon
Definition
peg sticking up from post, fit into a carving in the lintel

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Term
trilithon
Definition
one pair of posts, one lintel

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Armature
Definition
skeletal inner structure
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Chalcolithic
Definition
copper stone age
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Term
register
Definition
analogous to comic strip frames, dividers that separate sections of an image
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Term
convention
Definition
a rule or tradition
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