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Kickapoo Village (Mexico), 20th century, Mexicans (Kikapu)
Sig: They had tensile frames and grass mat roofs. |
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Kickapoo Village (Mexico), 20th century, Mexicans (Kikapu)
Sig: They had tensile frames and grass mat roofs. |
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Kickapoo Village (Mexico), 20th century, Mexicans (Kikapu)
Sig: They had tensile frames and grass mat roofs. |
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Lascaux Cave (France), 10,000 B.C.E., Paleolithic
The oldest known paintings. |
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Lascaux Cave (France), 10,000 B.C.E., Paleolithic
The oldest known paintings. |
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Lepenski Vir (Yugoslavia) 6300-4800 BCE, Paleolithic
Sig: A large settlement by a river, compression frame structures that suggest less nomadic people. |
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Lepenski Vir (Yugoslavia) 6300-4800 BCE, Paleolithic
Sig: A large settlement by a river, compression frame structures that suggest less nomadic people. |
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Terra Amata, (France), 400,000 B.C.E - paleolithic
Sig: Oldest evidence of architecture. |
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Sittard (Netherlands), 4000 BCE, neolithic
Sig: Longhouses that were one of the earliest permanent structures. |
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Sittard (Netherlands), 4000 BCE, neolithic
Sig: Longhouses that were one of the earliest permanent structures. |
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Skara Brae (Scotland), 2000 B.C.E., neolithic
Sig. Built in stone furniture. |
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Skara Brae (Scotland), 2000 B.C.E., neolithic
Sig. Built in stone furniture. |
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New Grange (Irland) 2500 BCE, Neolithic
Sig. Had a passage grave and a corbelled vault. |
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New Grange (Irland) 2500 BCE, Neolithic
Sig. Had a passage grave and a corbelled vault. |
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Stonehenge (England), 2750-1500 BCE, Neolithic
Sig. Is a megalith that contains trilithons. (first lintel siting) |
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Jericho (Israel/Palestine) 7000 BCE, Neolithic
Sig. First city ever known. |
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Jericho (Israel/Palestine) 7000 BCE, Neolithic
Sig. First city ever known. |
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Catalhoyuk (Turkey) 6000 BCE, Neolithic.
Sig. Use cob and half-timbering to build homes. Worshipped bulls. |
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Citadel and royal palace of Sargon II, Korsabad, (Iraq), 740 BCE, Neolithic
Sig. Palace constructed of different sized rooms. Also had robust exterior walls. |
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Mortuary Complex of Zoser, Saqqara, 2680 BCE, Imhotep
Sig. Imhotep is known as the first architect in history. |
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Mortuary Complex of Zoser, Saqqara, 2680 BCE, Imhotep
Sig. Imhotep is known as the first architect in history. |
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Pyramids of Giza Egypt, (Khufu, Khafra, and Mekaura), 2500 BCE, Egyptians
The Great Pyramid of Giza (Khufu’s) was the tallest building in the world until the Eiffel Tower. |
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Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahri, 1500 B.C.E Senmut
Sig. The structure had statue columns and the structure presents more of its self as you approach it. |
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Troy [Hisarlik] (Turkey), 3000-1300 BCE, (Troy VI, Homeric Troy) Hittites
Sig. Was a large city state that was built over and over again on top of itself. |
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Palace of Minos, Knossos (Crete), c. 3000-1300 BCE, Minoan
Sig. The people would perform bull-vaulting in court yards. |
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Palace of Nestor, Pylos (Greece) c. 1300 BCE Mycenaean
Sig. Had a megaron palace. |
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Treasury of Atreus (Tomb of Agamemnon), Mycenae (Greece), c. 1400 BCE Mycenaean
Sig. Was a tholos (beehive) tomb. |
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Second Temple of Hera, Samos (Greece) 538 BCE, Dorians (Greeks)
Sig. Is a hexastyle doric temple. |
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Temple of Artemis, Ephesos (Turkey), c 550 BCE, Ionians
Sig. Was a peripteral ionic temple |
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Bouleuterion, Miletus (Turkey), c. 170 BCE, Greeks
Sig. It was a city council chamber. |
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Stoa of Attalos II, Athens, (Greece) 150 BCE Greek
Sig. It has a mix of doric and ionic columns. |
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Propylaea, Akropolis, Athens, 425 BCE, Kallikrates
Sig. Slightly separated in the middle to create a gate. |
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Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, (Greece) 440 BCE, Iktinos and Kallikrates
Sig. Is slightly curved upward to be more appealing to the eye. |
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