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Sculpture in the round?
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Free-standing sculpture, sculpture that is surrounded on all sides, except the base, by space. It is also known as sculpture "in the round", and is meant to be viewed from any angle
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Relief Sculpture?
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A relief is a sculptured artwork where a modelled form is raised, or, in a sunken-relief, lowered, from a plane from which the main elements of the composition project (or sink)
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Post and Lintel Construction
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Post and lintel (or Post and beam) is a simple architrave where a horizontal member (the lintel—or header) is supported by two vertical posts at either end.
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Dolmen?
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type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone
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Henge
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it is a nearly circular or oval-shaped flat area over 20 metres (65 feet) in diameter that is enclosed and delimited by a boundary earthwork that usually comprises a ditch with an external bank.
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Menhir
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a large upright standing stone
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Amphora
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a type of ceramic vase with two handles and a long neck narrower than the body.
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Contrapposto
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human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs
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Citadel
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a fortress for protecting a town, sometimes incorporating a castle
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Tholos tomb
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a burial structure characterised by its false dome created by the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones
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