Classes/Spring 2025/ARTH 105/Notes 1:10:25.md

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Slide 2:
Shows the spread of agriculture
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Town called carnac
Monolithich sstones set upright
words to describe
monolith: single stone
megalith: big stone
menhir: individual standing stone
Found on every contentint
4000-1000 BCE
Intintial Modification of the landscape
Stronger connection to the landscape.
Prehistoric: Pre-History
before the advent of writing
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The stones are weathered granite
Dragged from outcroping because they are so big
All we have left
Stone left in natural condition
Maybe left that way out of reverence to nature?
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What is the function?
Maybe commermorative?
diffuclty of moving the rocks is part of the meaning
We call them monuments ^
They are perpinductar to the earth and are similar to the human figure
For posterarity
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Placed in long parallel lines
go for over a mile
Collective
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How?
Most likely used the use of ropes, log leavers, and ramps of earth
Collective effort
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Other Pre-Historic stone structures
Dolmen:
stone tomb
Trilithon:
three-stone assembly
Post and Lintel:
two uprights holding up a horizontal beam
Trabeation:
The us of beams in architectural construction
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Beam or lintal on two upright posts
the distance between posts is the span
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Vocab
Structure:
How loads are carried
Tectonics:
The art of assembly
In this basic era hard to differenciate, but as time goes on they get more different
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Passgage Grave in Nwegrange Ireland
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Builder defined the outer circle with megaliths
then marked the stone passage way
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Small stones to hold earth
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The passageway gently rises and leads to a vaulted central chamber
Vaulted: Fully enclosed space
use corbaling
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Corbeled:
Succesive stone courses projecting outward from those below, reducing unsupported loads
More effecient way to build in stone
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Now we have decrotave patterns carved into the stone
Ornamented surfaces
Way to emblish structure
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Window over the entrance
beam of light hits back of chamber
Is it more than a tomb?
maybe a way to mark astronomical cycles
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The passage grave has lots of ties to other geography
Later structures in places like northern italy build similar structures
Then find them in the aegean then syria
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Etruscan chamber tombs
Domos:
Entrance walkway
Tholos:
Circular burial
Tumulus:
Mound of earth over a tomb
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Also used corboled vaulting
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Last place Stonehenge in Salisbury, England
3000-1500BCE
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Also shaped earth mounds surronding it
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Trilithons use lotsof post and lintel system
Shaped and smoothed into unifor heights
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Uses Mortise and tenon joints to join the trilithons
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How?
Posts were mostlikely dragged and levered into place
Lintels were lifted with temporaty structures of wood then removed once ontop
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Why?
Was likely used as a astronomical observatory
Has collective importance
Wasnt a tomb
Stones came from 300 miles away
The healstone came from scotland
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Still attracts lots of visitors