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I. Prehistoric Notes

The document summarizes prehistoric architecture and its influences, structures, and cultural stages. It discusses how geography, geology, climate, religion, social politics, and history influenced design. Structures included rock cave dwellings, tents and huts, religious monuments like menhirs and megaliths (like Stonehenge), and burial mounds. Cultural stages progressed from the Stone Age to Bronze Age to Iron Age, with construction principles of post and lintel, arch and vault, corbel or cantilever, and trusses.

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I. Prehistoric Notes

The document summarizes prehistoric architecture and its influences, structures, and cultural stages. It discusses how geography, geology, climate, religion, social politics, and history influenced design. Structures included rock cave dwellings, tents and huts, religious monuments like menhirs and megaliths (like Stonehenge), and burial mounds. Cultural stages progressed from the Stone Age to Bronze Age to Iron Age, with construction principles of post and lintel, arch and vault, corbel or cantilever, and trusses.

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PREHISTORIC ARCHITECTURE

INFLUENCES:
- Geographical
- Geological
- Climatic
- Religious
- Socialpolitical
- Historical

PREHISTORIC STRUCTURES:
CULTURAL STAGES:
I. Stone Age
Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
II. Bronze Age
Covered the Minoan Period of the Crete & Greek Period
III. Iron Age
25 to 50 years Before Julius Caesar

4 Constructive Principles
A. Post and Lintel
B. Arch and Vault
C. Corbel or Cantilevered
D. Trussed
3 Classifications of Early known types of Architecture
1. Dwellings
a. ROCK CAVE- Earliest form of dwellings
3 stages of evolution of cave:
1. Natural Cave
2. Artificial Cave
3. Cave above the Ground

b. TENTS & HUTS – Made from TREE BARKS, ANIMAL SKINS, PLANT LEAVES.
i. HUTS – made up of REEDS, BRUSHES, & WATTLES
2. Religious Monuments
a. MONOLITH – isolated single upright stone also known as “MENHIR”.
i. MENHIR – memorial of victory over one tribe.
- prototype of Egyptian pyramid.
b. MEGALITH – Several number of stones
i. Dolmen – 2 or more upright stones supporting horizontal slab.
ii. Cromlech – 3 or more upright stones capped by an unchain flat
stone, indicates place of religious rites,
1. E.g. Found at LANYON Cornwall
iii. Stone Circle or Stone Row – made up of 3000 stones spaced upright
1. E.g. “STONEHENGE”, located at Wiltshire & Salisbury Plain
STONEHENGE – made up of Concentric Rings:
 Outer Ring 106 ft. In Diameter
 Isolated Blue Stone
 Innermost Circle
 Smaller Blue Stone

3. Burial Grounds/Mounds
a. TUMULI or “Barrows” – earthen mounds use for burials of several to
complete hundred of ordinary persons.
 Prototypes of pyramids in Egypt, also of the beehive
huts.

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