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