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Paleolithic Period
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35,000 - 9,000/8,000 BCEOld Stone Agehunter-gatherersmall family groups and clans
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Neolithic Period
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New Stone Age9000/8000 BCEAgriculoute, domestication of animals, settled village life
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Mudbrick (sun-dried brick)
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Quick drying mudhardened with sun but deteriorates with waterused for walls
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Megalithic
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Large scale constructionuse of large stones and boulders
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Corbeling
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No use of mortarstones stacked jutting out a little more each layer
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Intramural burial
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Bodies burried togetherCatal Huyuk burried beneath the floorused for several generations for family members
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Post and lintel
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Type of construction with two up right pillars (posts) capped with one flat pillar (lintel)
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Mortise and tenon
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Mortise (holes beneath lintels) and tenon (pegs on top of posts)secured the joint
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Mammoth-bone houses
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Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age)earliest huts constructed in Russian Plain 14,000 BCE
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Lascaux Cave, France 15,000 BCE
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Jericho, Israel 8,000 BCE
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Catal Huyuk , Turkey, 6500 - 5700 BCE
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Newgrange Passage Grave, Ireland 3100 BCE
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Stonehenge, England, 2900 - 1400 BCE
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Jerricho
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8000 BCefortified by thick walls, ditch and tower10 acrestwo room houses, sun-dried brick, lime plaster walls stained red, smooth and shiny
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