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Neolithic to Stonehenge
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Architecture
Undergraduate 2
12/31/2008

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Neolithic
Definition
New Stone Age
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Paleolithic
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Old Stone Age
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Catal Huyuk
Definition
Located in Turkey; accessed the house by the roof, early settlement, 8,000 years ago
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cromlech
Definition
stone circle
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menhir
Definition
standing stone
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megalith
Definition
great stone
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passage grave
Definition
normally an earthen mound decorated with boulders with an entryway or passage into the tomb
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trilithons
Definition
two uprights capped by a single lintel
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dolmen
Definition
Celtic Word meaning table
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Stonehenge
Definition
Built in concentric rings in three phases, consisting of trilithons and continuous post and lintel system
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barrow
Definition
In the British Isles, Dolmens are referred to as this.
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corbelling
Definition
successive courses are made to project inward , narrowing the circumference of a chamber until the space is totally sealed off.
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Aubrey Holes
Definition
Circle of 56 equally spaced pits at Stonehenge
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megalithic tombs
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A place where a body was placed ; the space was created by massive stone blocks and then covered with a mound of earthen materials
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Lascaux
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Five boys found this cave that has many beautiful paintings of bison, horses, and elk on it's walls from 25,000 years ago
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