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3.1 KiB
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117 lines
3.1 KiB
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Slide 2:
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Shows the spread of agriculture
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Slide 3:
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Town called carnac
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Monolithich sstones set upright
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words to describe
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monolith: single stone
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megalith: big stone
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menhir: individual standing stone
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Found on every contentint
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4000-1000 BCE
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Intintial Modification of the landscape
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Stronger connection to the landscape.
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Prehistoric: Pre-History
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before the advent of writing
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The stones are weathered granite
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Dragged from outcroping because they are so big
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All we have left
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Stone left in natural condition
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Maybe left that way out of reverence to nature?
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What is the function?
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Maybe commermorative?
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diffuclty of moving the rocks is part of the meaning
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We call them monuments ^
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They are perpinductar to the earth and are similar to the human figure
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For posterarity
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Placed in long parallel lines
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go for over a mile
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Collective
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How?
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Most likely used the use of ropes, log leavers, and ramps of earth
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Collective effort
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Other Pre-Historic stone structures
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Dolmen:
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stone tomb
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Trilithon:
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three-stone assembly
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Post and Lintel:
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two uprights holding up a horizontal beam
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Trabeation:
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The us of beams in architectural construction
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Beam or lintal on two upright posts
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the distance between posts is the span
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Slide 10:
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Vocab
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Structure:
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How loads are carried
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Tectonics:
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The art of assembly
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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
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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
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Vaulted: Fully enclosed space
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use corbaling
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Corbeled:
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Succesive stone courses projecting outward from those below, reducing unsupported loads
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More effecient way to build in stone
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Now we have decrotave patterns carved into the stone
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Ornamented surfaces
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Way to emblish structure
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Window over the entrance
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beam of light hits back of chamber
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Is it more than a tomb?
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maybe a way to mark astronomical cycles
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The passage grave has lots of ties to other geography
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Later structures in places like northern italy build similar structures
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Then find them in the aegean then syria
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Etruscan chamber tombs
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Domos:
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Entrance walkway
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Tholos:
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Circular burial
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Tumulus:
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Mound of earth over a tomb
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Also used corboled vaulting
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Last place Stonehenge in Salisbury, England
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3000-1500BCE
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Also shaped earth mounds surronding it
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Trilithons use lotsof post and lintel system
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Shaped and smoothed into unifor heights
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Uses Mortise and tenon joints to join the trilithons
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How?
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Posts were mostlikely dragged and levered into place
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Lintels were lifted with temporaty structures of wood then removed once ontop
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Why?
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Was likely used as a astronomical observatory
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Has collective importance
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Wasnt a tomb
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Stones came from 300 miles away
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The healstone came from scotland
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Slide 29:
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Still attracts lots of visitors |