prehistoric architecture
DESCRIPTION
Prehistoric Architecture Types of buildings and architectsTRANSCRIPT
PREHISTORY: refers to the time
period before people could write,
the time before written records.
•Objects are the documents of
record
•Challenge is to "read" the
nonverbal info found in objects.
•Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) c40,000-8,000 BCE
-- mostly nomadic hunters
•Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) c8,000-7,000 BCE
•Neolithic (New Stone Age) c7,000-2,300 BCE
-- began to settle year-round
LATIN TERMS TO KNOW
PALEO
MESO
NEO
LITH
MEGA
“old”
“middle / between”
“new”
“stone”
“large or great”