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| the belief that the forces of nature are inhabited by living spirits |
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| the practice of investing plants, animals, and natural phenomena with human form or attributes |
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| a fully enclosed burial chamber covered with earth |
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| the act of cutting or incising stone, bone, wood, or other material into a desired form |
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| a culture that possesses the ability to organize itself thoroughly and communicates through written language |
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| a story of a people's origin |
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| a circle of megaliths, usually surrounding a dolmen or mound |
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| the set of values, beliefs, and behaviors that governs or determines a common way of living formed by a group of people and passed on from one generation to the next |
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| a type of prehistoric megalithic structure made of two posts supporting a horizontal capstone |
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| a type of narrative that explains beliefs about a people's origins |
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| the earliest upright mammals, including humans, apes, and other related forms |
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| one whose primary method of subsistence depends on hunting animals and gathering edible plants and other foodstuffs from nature |
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| a Pueblo ceremonial enclosure that is usually partly underground and serves as the center of village life |
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| a horizontal architectural element |
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| literally, "big stones"; large, usually rough, stones used in a monument or structure |
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| a large single upright stone |
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| the use of shading in two-dimensional representation to give a sense of roundness and volume |
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| a story that a culture assumes is true. it also embodies the culture's views and beliefs about its world, often serving to explain otherwise mysterious natural phenomena |
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| in art, representations that imitate the reality in appearance of natural objects |
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| a culture that develops without writing and passes down stories, beliefs, values, and systems by word of mouth |
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| the use of techniques to show the relation of objects as they appear to the eye and convey a sense of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface |
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| a piece fixed firmly in an upright position |
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| a form of construction consisting of two posts (upright members) that support a lintel (horizontal member) |
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| existing in or relating to the times before writing and recorded history |
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| a three-dimensional work of art carved out of a flat backround surface |
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| a fully three-dimensional work of art |
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| a person thought to have special ability to communicate with the spirit world |
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| a type of megalithic structure composed of three stones: two posts and a lintel; served in prehistory as the basic architectural unit |
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