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 “old”
MESO “middle / between”
NEO “new”
LITH “stone”
MEGA “large or great”
Cave Dwellings, Turkey
32000yrs ago
Ice Age
Chauvet Cave Art
Paleolithic Era
13000 BC Lascaux Cave, France
 Caves of Lascaux (France)

The most extensively decorated caves

Altamira, Spain
 Brushwood Hut

Wood framed
huts
Round House, Israel

Stilt House
Stone Age Skara Brae, Scotland
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