History of Architecture

Stone Age
Paleolithic

from Greek: palaios - old and lithos - stone

"old stone age"

Mesolithic

Neolithic

from Greek: mesos - middle and lithos stone

Middle stone age"
from Greek: neo - New and lithos - stone
New stone age"

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Stone Age

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Time Line
Stone Age - 2.5 million BCE to 2000 BCE
Paleolithic
Lower - 2,500,000-200,000 BCE
Middle - 200,000-30,000 BCE
Upper - 40,000-10,000 BCE
Mesolithic - In Europe, 10,000 - 4,000 BCE
Neolithic - In Europe, 4,000 - 2,000 BCE

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Paleolithic
Lower Paleolithic - 2,500,000-200,000 BCE
man was a food gatherer
crafting and use of stone tools
Mobile lifestyle

Acheulean Handaxes from SaintAcheul, France. - Lower Paleolithic,

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Paleolithic
Lower Paleolithic - 2,500,000-200,000 BCE
Dwelling units
Huts Terra Amata (Nice, France),
Molodova I (Ukraine)

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Huts Terra Amata
Size ranges from 8m (26ft) to 15m
(49ft) in length by 4m (13ft) to 6m
(19ft) by breadth.
Stakes- set as palisades
Braced on the outside by stones
Built around a central fireplace
Rebuilt every year

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Huts Molodova I
Size ranges from 8m (26ft)
in length by 5m (16ft)
breadth.
Wooden framework
covered by animal skin
and held in place by
mammoth bones
encloses 15 hearth
Rebuilt every year

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Paleolithic
Middle Paleolithic - 200,00030,000 BCE
Earliest anatomically
modern humans
appeared
developing religious
ideology
Inter-group trade may
have appeared during the
Middle Paleolithic
man was a food gatherer
crafting and use of stone
tools
Mobile lifestyle

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Paleolithic
Middle Paleolithic - 200,000-30,000 BCE
Dwelling units
Lean to - Cave of Le Lazaret (Nice, France)

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Lean to cave of Lazaret
measures 11m (36ft) by
3.5m (11ft)
Wooden framework
covered by animal skin
and held down by stones
Had an internal partition
Had 2 entrances on the
longer side.
the larger of the two
compartments had 2
hearth.

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Paleolithic
Upper Paleolithic - 40,00010,000 BCE
This period has the
earliest remains of
organized settlements in
the form of campsites,
some with storage pits
Artistic work blossomed,
with Venus figurines, cave
painting, and petroglyphs
man was a food gatherer
Invention of the bow and
arrow
Mobile lifestyle

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Paleolithic
Upper Paleolithic - 40,000-10,000 BCE
Dwelling units
Tents Magdalenian (Plateau Parain in France)
Tents Magdalenian (Poggenwisch in Germany)
Pit Houses - Pushkari, Russia

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Tents Magdalenian (Plateau
Parain in France)
Size 3m (10ft) by 3m (10ft)
animal hide tent was
suspended over a wooden
framework and held down
by stones.
It included a central
hearth.
Stone tools were fond in
the area around this site

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Tents Magdalenian (Poggenwisch)

Magdalenian double tent from This

structure was made by connecting
two tents, each with its own
hearth.

The structure was anchored with

stones.

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Pit houses Pushkari, Russia
2.5 m to 3.5m (8 ft -11ft) in
width by 5m to 8m (16ft
59 ft)
This hut was built over a
shallow depression
Mammoth hides were
drawn over the timber and
anchored with bones and
stones.
It had three internal
hearths.

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