Who are those four (4) Ancestors who live in
Pre-Historic Day?
The Success of the Human Race was
largely due to the developement of
what?
What are the Tools Used in Pre-Historic Times
Made of Stone
Made of Wood
Made of Rocks
Tools
Homo Habilis
Homo Erectus
Homo Sapiens
Homo Sapiens Sapiens
2.3 Million years ago..
Africa
What are the Four (4) Great Constructive
Principles
Post & Lintel Construction
Arch & Vault Construction
Corbel or Cantilever Construction
Trussed Construction
What are the Three (3) Classification of Early
Known Architecture
Dwellings
What are the Three (3) Pre-Historic
Dwellings
Rock Cave
Earliest from of dwellings
Tents
Made from tree barks, Animal skin & Plant Leaves
Huts
Usually made up of reeds, brushes and wattles
Huts Made up of Rocks & Stones
Religious Monuments
What are the Three (3) Pre-Historic Religious Monuments
Monolith
Isolated single upright stone also known as menhir
Menhir
It is a Memorial Victory of a tribe, Prototypes
of Egyptian Pyramid
Megalithic
Megalithic is most evidence on what countries?
France
England
Several numbers of stone?
What are the Two (2) Type of Megalithic
Dolmen
2 or more upright stones supporting a horizontal slab
Two (2) Standing Stones Usually
capped with a large horizontal slab
Cromlech
3 or more upright stones capped by an unchained
flat stone, Indicates place of religious rites, e.g.
Lanyon Cornwall
2 to 3 upright stones with one slab on top
Stone Circle or Stone Rows
Made-up of 3,000 Stones e.g.
"Stonehenge", Located at Wiltshire & on
Salisbury Plain
Stonehenge
"Stonehenge" located at what location?
Wiltshire
Salisbury Plain
Are made-up of Concentric Rings
Stonehenge compose of?
Outer Ring 106' in diameter
Isolated Blue Stone
Innermost Circle
Smaller Blue Stone
Most spectacular and imposing of monolithic
monuments. Outer ring, Inner ring, innermost
horseshoe-shaped ring with open end facing east.
Where can we found Stonehenge
England
What date Stonehenge Discover
2,800 - 1500 BC
lagest stone weigh 45 to 50 tons, came from wales
200km away stone transported by sea or river
then hauled on land with sledges and rollers by
hundreds of people, raised upright into pits,
capped with lintels
Stonehenge defines exterior spaces
Genuine Architecture
Stonehenge designed to
mark the sun's path during
sunrise on mid summer day
Solar Observatory
Burial Mounds
Tumuli
Earthen mounds use for
burials of several to couple
hundred of ordinary persons.
Other names for Tumuli
Barrows
Beehive huts
This burial structure has
protypes of Pyramid in Egypt
It is the Record of Mans effort to build beautifully. It
traces the origin, growth and decline of architectural
styles which have prevailed lands and ages.