Prehistory and Early Cultures

• Paleolithic Era “Old Stone”

  Period marked by the predominance of stone tools, about 10,000 CE
• Hunter-Gatherer

  A type of subsistence lifestyle that relies on the hunting/fishing of animals and foraging for wild vegetation
• Tensile Structure

  A construction of elements carrying only tension and no compression or bending
• Stone Age

  Period of prehistory in which humans used primitive stone tools
• Neolithic Era

  Final division in the stone age. Saw the neolithic revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments–farming, domestication of animals, change from hunter-gatherer to settlements. Around 8,000-4,500
• Post and Lintel

  A building system where strong horizontal elements are held up by strong vertical elements with large spaces between them
• Dolmen

  A type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supported a flat large horizontal capstone or “table”
• Terra Amata 

  Nice, France, hunter-gatherers, ~400000 BCE 

  
• Chauvet Cave

  France, ~30,000 BCE

  
• Lascaux Cave

  Montignac, France, ~15,000 BCE

  
• Gobekli Tepe

  Anatolia, Turkey, 9500 BCE

  
• Jericho

  West Bank, Palestine, 7,500 BCE

  
• Catalhoyuk

  Anatolia, Turkey, 7100 BCE

  
• Stonehenge

  Wiltshire, England, ~3100 BCE

  
• Skara Brae

  Orkney, Scotland, 3180 BCE