Corbeled Arches
Post and Lintel
- çatalhöyük Excavation
- 7,400 BCE
- people were buried under houses, a lot of artifacts from it (people started focusing more on ancestors, first started settling down)
- Homes made of mudbrick and wood, no place for waste so illness rates rise
- no formal door, just entrance hatches on top for people to go into + let smoke rise out from
- all buildings connected
- çatalhöyük landscape detail
- 6,150 BCE
- one of the first landscapes, possibly depicts volcano or animal skin (nearby volcano active at the time)
- people cared about more than just nature
- Human Skull Portrait
- 7200-6700 BCE
- platser, paint, and seashells
- çatalhöyük, ancestor or spirit worship
- Man Taunting a Deer
- c. 6000BCE
- Pigment on plaster wall
- çatalhöyük, still no groundline and a twisted view
- Humans shown more in art, scale is off
- still hunting, partially nomadic
- Exterior view of Newrange
- 3000-2500BCE
- Stone
- Interior view of Newrange
- 3000-2500BCE
- Stone carvings
- probably a burial space and afterlife meaning
- Spiral=never ending, on winter solstice, the sun goes straight through passageways
- Stonehenge
- c.2900-1500BCE
- Stone, 24' high. Posts and lintels
- Blue stones carried from miles away, og function is assumed to be a burial space. Religion + sacred spaces
- Stone wall at Jericho
- 8000-7000BCE
- First documentation of walls, one of the oldest neolithic cities
- Human Figure
- likely represents spirits because genderless, eyes wide open indicate life