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37 Cards in this Set
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People & Animals (Age)
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4,000 - 2,000 BCE
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People & Animals (Location)
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Lerida, Spain
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People & Animals (Medium)
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On the wall of a shelter rather than a cave
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People & Animals (Significance)
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Shows people tending to animals, representing the domestication of herds
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People & Animals (Style)
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Flying Gallop
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Cattle Being Tended (Age)
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5,000 - 2,000 BCE
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Cattle Being Tended (Location)
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Tassili-n-Ajjer, Africa (Present Day Algeria)
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Cattle Being Tended (Significance)
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Everyday life, herded animals,
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Cattle Being Tended (Medium)
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Rock Wall Painting
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Skara Brae (Age)
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3,100 - 2,600 BCE
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Skara Brae (Location)
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Scotland, Orkney Islands
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Skara Brae (Material)
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Stone
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Skara Brae (Style)
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Post and Lintel and Corbelling
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Skara Brae (Significane)
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Included built in beds, a hearth, grinding stones, fishing tanks, pottery with decorative lines, and walkways to other dwellings
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Stonehenge (Age)
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2,750 - 1,500 BCE
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Stonehenge (Location)
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Wiltshire, England
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Stonehenge (Materials)
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Sandstone, Bluestone
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Stonehenge (Significance)
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May have been used to keep time, Some type of gathering site
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Stonehenge (Style)
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Uses Mortise and Tenon Joints, Post and Lintel Construction
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Vessels (Age)
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3,000 BCE
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Vessels (Location)
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Denmark
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Vessels (Size)
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5-12 Inches
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Vessels (Material)
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Ceramic
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Vessels (Style)
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Incisions and Geometric Markings, Chalk Color
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Vessels (Significance)
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Found at Gravesite- used to honor the dead
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Horse and Sun Chariot (Age)
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1800 BCE
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Horse and Sun Chariot (Location)
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Denmark
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Horse and Sun Chariot (Size)
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23 1/4 Inches
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Horse and Sun Chariot (Material)
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Bronze with Gold
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Horse & Sun Chariot (Significance)
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Shows and Animal pulling the sun through the heavens
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Horse & Sun Chariot (Style)
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Patterns on the Horse are Geometric and Rectilinear. The Sun is continuous and curvilinear
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Openwork Box Lid (Age)
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1st Century BCE
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Openwork Box Lid (Location)
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Ireland
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Openwork Box Lid (Size)
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3 Inches in Diameter
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Openwork Box Lid (Style)
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Symmetry and Negative Space, Lattice Work
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Openwork Box Lid (Significance)
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Luxury Item
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Openwork Box Lid (Material)
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Bronze
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