Readily-available; do not require time and effort

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Represents nomadic lifestyle

Built with limited investment in time and energy

Represents sedentary lifestyle

Practiced farming and domestication of animals

Designed in direct response to lifestyle, local materials, and climate

It is located in the northwest of Bulgaria and contains a collection of cave paintings, painted with bat excrement dated from 8000-4000 years ago.

It is located in Patagonia, southern part of Argentina, and contains cave paintings of hundreds of stenciled hands that were created between 13,000 and 9,000 years ago.

It is a collection of rock shelters, located in central India and contains over 600 paintings that span the prehistoric paleolithic and mesolithic periods, the oldest of which dates from at least 12,000 years.

It is a national park in Brazil which has the largest and the oldest concentration of prehistoric paintings in the Americas. Stone tools are also found in this cave dated to as early as 22,000 years ago.

These are cave formations on the rural outskirts of Hargeisa, Somaliland, situated in the Woqooyi Galbeed region of the country. They contain some of the earliest known cave paintings in the Horn of Africa. The cave's rock art is estimated to date to somewhere between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago.

It is a mountain range, located in the Sahara Desert of Western Libya that contains rock art dating from 14,000 years ago.

It is a cave in southern France that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world.

The dates have been a matter of dispute but a study published in 2012 supports placing the art in the Aurignacian period, approximately 32,000–30,000 years BP. Hundreds of animal paintings have been cataloged, depicting at least 13 different species, including some rarely or never found in other ice age paintings. Rather than depicting only the familiar herbivores that predominate in Paleolithic cave art, i.e. horses, aurochs, mammoths, etc. The walls of the Chauvet Cave feature many predatory animals, e.g., cave lions, leopards, bears, and cave hyenas.

It is a group of rock outcrops in the Kakadu National Park, a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia. There several large rock overhangs that would have provided excellent shelter to Aboriginal people over thousands of years.

Some of the paintings are up to 20,000 years old and depict e barramundi, catfish, mullet, goanna, snake-necked turtle, pig-nosed turtle, rock-haunting ringtail possum, and wallaby and thylacine (Tasmanian tiger).

The Kakudu National Park contains a vast amount of Aboriginal rock paintings; over 5000 art sites have been discovered there. The Aboriginals not only painted the exterior of their subjects, but also the skeletons of some animals.

It is located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. It is renowned for prehistoric parietal cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands.

The earliest paintings were applied during the Upper Paleolithic, around 36,000 years ago. The site was only discovered in 1868 by Modesto Cubillas.

The setting of a complex of caves near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne in southwestern France. Over 600 parietal wall paintings cover the interior walls and ceilings of the cave.

The age of the paintings is estimated at around 17,000 years (early Magdalenian).

Conical Indian dwelling made of barks and animal skins.

American Indian dwelling, usually of round or oval shape, formed of poles overlaid with bark, rush mats, or animal skins.

A Navaho Indian dwelling constructed usually of earth and logs and covered with mud and sod.

A traditional stone dwelling in Apulia, where square chambers are roofed with conical vaulted roofs.

Uses a prehistoric building technique of mortar-less construction still in use in southern Italy.

General term for ancient stone monuments.

Single massive upright stone/rock used as a monument.

Large monolithic simple upright stone.

large stones set on end with a large covering slab

more than 3000 large granite stones lines up for several kilometers with ten to thirteen rows running east by north east towards a circle.

huge stones were arranged in a circle and partially covered with horizontal slabs of stone

a mound of earth or stone protecting a tomb chamber or simple grave

one of the world's continually-inhabited city in Jordan

one of the earliest Neolithic village in Cyprus with circular houses built from mud-brick and stone flat roofs

largest and most well-preserved Neolithic village consisting of rectangular flat-roofed houses packed together into a single architectural mass.

Hut at Terra Amata, France; earliest known sample of temporary shelters using available materials; oval in shape and constructed of tree branches.

Iraqi marshland mudhif covered with split reed mats; built on a reed platform to prevent settlement.

American cabin of stripped logs sealed with clay, with a clay-lined chimney and roof of bark or shingles.

Indian house for an entire village in British Guiana; built of poles with palm-leaf thatch.

Kickapoo Indian wigwam of rush mats over a wooden frame, with animal-skin door.

Sumatran house for several families, built of timber and palm leaves; the fenced pen underneath is for livestock.

Eskimo igloo of hard packed snow blocks built up spirally.

Nigerian hut with mud walls and roof of palm leaves.

Cornish cottage with granite walls and chimney and thatch roof.

Annamese wooden-framed hut with woven bamboo walls and roof of leaves; built on stilts to prevent tigers clawing through walls.

Brazilian Indian hut of palm leaves and wood with shaded veranda.

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has no streets or passageways