BT1 MODULE 1

The human-like creature that lived in africa over 4 million years ago

• Paleolithic

• Australopithecus

• Neolithic

Also known as Middle Stone Age around 12,000-8,000 BC

• MESOLITHIC

• NEOLITHIC

• PALEOLITHIC

New Stone Age

8,000 BC – 3,000 BC

• NEOLITHIC

• PALEOLITHIC

• MESOLITHIC

wooden poles/animal bones as framework

• HUT

• COMMUNAL HOUSE

• TENT

broad leaves intertwined as covering

AND composite building materials were used (clay & wood)

• HUT

• COMMUNAL HOUSE

• STONE STRUCTURES

wooden post & lintel to support the ridge pole & rafters

• COMMUNAL HOUSE

• STONE STRUCTURES

• HUT

WHAT ARE THE 4 STONE STRUCTURES?

• dolmen

  Granaries

  temples

  cromlech

• temples

  cromlech

  cromlech

  Pyramids

• cromlech

  Pyramids

  temples

  cromlech

A circular arrangement of megaliths enclosing a dolmen or burial mound.

• CROMLECH

• STONEHENGE

• DOLMEN

FOUND IN SALISBURY PLAIN, SOUTHERN ENGLAND

Known in the 12th cent. as “Dance of the Giants” ✓ Known today as the “sarcen circle”

• STONEHENGE

• CROMLECH

Sumerian masonry was usually mortar less, BITUMEN was sometimes used

• Babylon

• MESOPOTAMIAN PERIOD

• EGYPTIAN PERIOD