Pre Historic Archi

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A record of man's efforts to build beautifully

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HISTORY OF ARCHI

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Polished stone tools for grinding, cutting & chopping

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NEOLITHIC

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Used stone and bone as instruments

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PALEOLITHIC

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Development of pottery

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NEOLITHIC

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Fashioned stone tool like the bow

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MESOLITHIC

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Used stone and bone as instruments

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PALEOLITHIC

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Learned to make fire

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PALEOLITHIC

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Practiced burial rituals & built tombs

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NEOLITHIC

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Built huts from bones, animal hides, reeds & grass

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MESOLITHIC

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Livelihood from hunting & food gathering

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PALEOLITHIC

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Built huts of stones & mud with thatched roofing

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NEOLITHIC

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Made canoe for fising

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MESOLITHIC

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Made body coverings from animal hides

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MESOLITHIC

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Lived in cave & rock shelters

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PALEOLITHIC

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Agriculture and Domesticated animals

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MESOLITHIC

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Sew clothing from animal hides using fish as needles

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NEOLITHIC

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Made body coverings from animal hides

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MESOLITHIC

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Most advanced metal working with copper

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BRONZE AGE

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Cutting tools and weapons were mainly made of iron or steel

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IRON AGE

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A large stone used to construct a structure either alone or together with other stones, utilizing an interlocking system without the use of mortar or cement

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MEGALITH

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2 or more upright stones supporting a stone slab

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DOLMEN/CROMLECH

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One of the most famous sites in the world & composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones

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STONEHENGE

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Indicates that the stonehenge served as a burial ground from its earliest beginnings

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

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An earthen mound burial

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BARROW OR TUMULUS

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Wedge tomb is an ex. of...

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DOLMEN

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Portal tomb is an ex. of...

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DOLMEN

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A shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff

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ROCK SHELTER

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Were rectangular, single-roomed with mud plastered walls & floors.

Access was by ladder from the roof. No roads but everybody walked on each other's roof

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KATAL HUYUK, TURKEY

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A portable shelter, as of canvas, stretched over a supporting framework of poles with toped and pegs

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TENT

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How many stones are in maenhir?

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1

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These materials made up the prehistoric huts in ukraine

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MAMMOTH BONES

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These huts consist of round structures huddled close together and the dead were buried under the floors

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KHIROKITIA

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A stone much favored by the aztecs for wall facing

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TEZONTLE

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Construction principle used in meso-america

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POST AND LINTEL

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In maya architecture, this lattice of stone added on top of the roof

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ROOF COMB

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It was an outstanding example of pre columbian ceremonial centre

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TEOTIHUACAN

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It was pre columbian 15th cent inca settlement sited 2430 m above sea level

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MACHU PICCHU

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This ancient gate is the place of congregation for bolivians celebrating the winter solstice

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GATE OF THE SUN

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This was a fortress built of yucay limestone to protect Cuzco, the sacred city of the Incas

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SACSAHUAMAN

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Believed in blood sacrifice to keep the cosmos in balance

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TOLTEC & AZTEC

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Children were sacrificed in an ancient inca practice

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CAPACOCHA

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Most important building type in Mesoamerican

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TEMPLE PYRAMID

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Stone facing carved w/ reps of jaguars, cayotes & eagles

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TOLTEC ARCHI

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Has no keystone making it triangular

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CORBEL VAULT

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Features the roof comb

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MAYA ARCHI

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Lining the immense avenue of the deads ("Place of the Gods")

Largest city in pre columbian western hemisphere

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TEOTIHUACAN

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"The symbolic descent of kukulkan" during equinox

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TEMPLE OF KUKULKAN/ EL CASTILLO

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Largest ball court in ancient mesoamerica

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GREAT BALL COURT, CHICKEN ITZA

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Most important religious center of zapotec culture

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PALACE BUILDINGS, MITLA

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Center of the aztec world; Venice of the new world bc of canals

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TENOCHTITLAN

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Center of the universe according to aztec beliefs

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TEMPLO MAYOR, TENOCH.

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Basic building material

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ADOBE BRICK

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Major materials in central andea

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Black andesite, yucay limestone, dorite porphyry, adobe brick

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Terraced structure; walls were patterned with geometric forms

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COASTAL REGION

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Buildings were built of rubble bonded with clay

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HIGHLANDS

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Capital of the chimu empire

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CHANCHAN

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Capital of the inca empire

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CUZCO