According to Gozitan folklore, Ġgantija was built by a giantess with child hanging from her shoulder

What is Neolithic Architecture

Stonehenge is in the south of England. It has captivated the curiosity and imagination of people for centuries.

After being discovered less than 25 years previous. Goseck Circle was recalibrated on Dec 21, 2005. During Winter solstice. Using 1675 2.5m high oakpoles.

Between 4700 and 2900 BC. Hongshan Neolithic culture refers to an ancient culture that existed in northeastern China during the neolithic period

Maeshowe or Maes Howe; is Orkhaugr, in old Norse

During the neolithic. Byblos became important location for paper like material, papyrus

The prehistoric archaeology of South Asia, specific of the Indian subcontinent. Has two distinct periods. The south Asian stone age; and, the Neolithic age.

Las Vegas culture takes place 10,000 years ago. when Ecuadors ocean was 30 meters or 100 feet lower than present

Eremotherium, ἔρημος “steppe or desert” and θηρίον, or “beast” was an extinct giant ground sloth from the family megatheriidae.

The Mousterian industry is named after the sites of Le Moustier in France, where these stone tools were first identified.

“Rockshelter” and “saint” in Portugese. The site of Lapa do Santo, is beneath a 30m-high limestone massif in the tropical savannah of central-eastern Brazil

Uan Muhuggiag is home to the oldest known mummy from between 56 and 5400 years ago

Haua Fteah is Arabic: ‫ح‬ ‫ي‬ ‫ط‬ ‫ف‬ ‫ا‬ ‫و‬ ‫ه‬ ; and, Romanized: Hawā Fṭiyaḥ. One of the most important archaeological sites in north Africa

Archaeozoologist struggle to find morphological criteria that allow them to reliably distinguish between the bones of sheep and goats. Two closely related taxa. So they created Ovicaprids or Caprines.

The ‘fertile crescent’ is a semi-circle. Surrounded by a ocean, mountains, highlands, and desert. There are rivers and a big neolithic history within.

early neolithic buildings & architecture

The paleolithic type site(s) name Solutrean, comes from “Cros du Charnier” near Geneva and Macon. Around 20,000 years ago.

Management of the populations of Mangrove Clams were critical during prehistoric and neolithic times

Calathea Allouia or Goeppertia allouia (scientific name) is lerén or lairén in Spanish. And, in English, Guinea arrow root, or sweet corn root. It has been known since ancient times.

Neolithic Mesopotamia is ‘land between rivers’ in greek. It is the area between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, centered north northwest of Baghdad, in Iraq

Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, also known as Tripolye, was a neolithic civilization that flourished in present-day Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine. Approximately 7500 to 4750 years ago.

The term “Iberia” comes from the Ancient Greek word “Iberes,” which was used to refer to the people who lived in the region.

Jeffersons sloth, megalonyx or “giant claw” is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family megalonychidae.

Venus figurines are recognized as some of the earliest forms of art

No wonder everyone wanted a woolly mammoth

Established during the neolithic period. One of the largest archaeological sites on Crete, is Knossos. What some say is also called Europe’s oldest city.

Grapes are a type of fruit. Grown in clusters 15 to 300. They can be crimson, black, dark blue, yellow, green, orange, and pink

Because of the giant whirlpool in front of it, Lepenski Vir is cyrillic for ‘Lepena Whirlpool’ or Лепенски Вир

Crete is roughly the shape of Long Island; lies half way between Peloponnes and north Africa; and, with steep mountains, became popular in Neolithic times

Beginning with the spread of farming, neolithic Greece started around 9000 to 8500 years ago.

Carnac can refer to different things. Mostly the town located in Brittany, France. Famous for its neolithic & megalithic monuments

A group of 5 neolithic barrow exist. Tumulus Bougon. In Nouvelle Aquitaine, France

St Michel is a Tumulus in NW France. A part of megalithic structures in the area. Known as Carnac stones.

Dolmen de Bagneux is great covered stone.

Barnenez is a cairn mapped by Napoleon in 1807. Used partially as a quarry. That stopped in 1950. When several additional chambers were discovered

Michelsberg culture (4400 to 3500bc) is characterized by undecorated pointy based tulip beakers.

Bottle gourds are calabash (/ˈkæləbæʃ/; or lagenaria siceraria

Gavrinis contains the Gavrinis tomb, a megalith comparable to some in Breton, Ireland and Orkney.

Chalcopyrite was the mineral upon which copper & bronze age civilizations were built

Circular enclosures from the neolithic age are found in central Europe

The neolithic flint mines at Spiennes Mons is one of the most culturally significant centres of world heritage

Across many past and current cultures, caribou, reindeer or rangifer tarandus are mythical creatures

Varna Necropolis has the oldest gold treasures and jewelry in the world dating from 4200 to 4600bc

Hisarlik is Turkish for ‘place of fortresses’, and to many the site of ancient Troy

Akrotiri (prehistoric city) was destroyed in the Theran eruption, in the 16th century BC, and buried and preserved in ash

To many, neolithic Kefalari or Κεφαλάρι was spring, lit, or abundant gushing water

Franchthi Cave was used for around 35,000 years, and is one of the thoroughly studied sites from southeast Europe.

Theopetra Cave has the oldest example of a man made structure dated to around 21000bc

Cyclops Cave (Yioura)

Cave bear are ursus spelaeus. 40-24,000 years ago. They were displaced, similar to modern pests.

Megaloceros giganteus had 88lb antlers. They are known as irish elk, or in greek: μεγαλος megalos “great” κερας keras “horn, antler”

Monte d’Accoddi may have been a product of a migration event from Mesopotamia based on its ziggurats, buildings, pottery and agriculture

The neolithic age came rather late to different regions of earth. Especially in the north.

Tell Sabi Abyad is Arabic: ‫ض‬ ‫ي‬ ‫ب‬ ‫أ‬ ‫ي‬ ‫ب‬ ‫ص‬ ‫ل‬ ‫ت‬ or ‘mound of the white boy’

Knap of Howar maybe the oldest preserved stone house in northern Europe

In greek, teratornis merriami, teratornis woodburnensis and maybe even a teratornis olsoni from Cuba are known as “wonder birds”

In 1867, in a field in Denmark, a little boy discovered something magical. Hindsgavl Dagger is Hindsgavldolken

In local Inuktitut language, the arctic ground squirrel is known from the thril it emits when being threatened “t’sik-t’sik”

Discovered around 1904, nothrotheriops shastensis is the Shasta ground sloth. Giving you the fancy name and statistics you see here today.

Font-de-Gaume is a well known cave in south west France

Cap Blanc rock shelter is a limestone rock shelter with sculptures, and magdalenian women. It is in the west of France.

In the environment surrounding Eyzies-de-Tayac Sireuil village. Lascaux is located some distance from the major concentrations of decorated caves and inhabited sites. With cave drawings estimated to 16 or 17 thousand years.

Altamira cave is in Spain, and very well known.

Grotte Chauvet-point d’arc is Chauvet Cave located in SE France with cave drawings more than 30,000 years ago.

Плейстоценовый парк, is Pleistocene Park. In NE Siberia, an attempt to re-create subarctic steppe grasses is taking place. To help reduce greenhouse gases, climate change & to create a better more significant planet.

Dolmens. Are a type of single chamber megalithic tombs.

Wattle & daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings.

Phytoliths or plant stones are microscopic silica bodies formed within and between cells in many plants, from absorption of silica from the soil

Paul Schultz Martin

Cave of El Castillo

Roca dels Moros is a famous prehistoric cave with the Dancers of Cogul in Cantabria

La Garma cave complex has prehistoric art in Cantabria

Abri de la Madeleine is a rock shelter with cave art in SW France

In the northern section of Spain, Tito Bustillo Cave has unique, even ceremonial cave art

The Franco-Cantabrian region was named from its rich archeological history, region above the Cantabrian Sea; and, spreading into regions of southern France

Santimamiñe has mural paintings of the Magdalenian period, depicting bisons, horses, goats and deer

The cave of Chufín is a unique cave art site in northern Spain

La Pasiega can be taken as a good example of the “Cave as Sanctuary”

Tim Flannery has written more than 27 books including Future eaters & Topics on climate change. He was awarded Australian of the year in 2007.

Cave of the Trois-Frères is a cave in southwestern France famous for its cave paintings from 13,000 years ago.

Kapova Cave, known as Shul’gan’tash. A limestone karst cave in the southern Urnal mountains. It’s known for 16,000 year cave drawings.

A gault age archaeology find in NE New Mexico sets unprecedented records for the area and continent: 37,000 years

Doggerland: 8247-8192 years ago, the storegga slide, was a landslide, that involved an estimated 180 mile length of coastal shelf in the Norwegian Sea. Which caused a large tsunami and flooding.

Panthera onca augusta, commonly known as the ‘giant jaguar’, is a species of jaguar that survived almost 2 million years ago, until about 11,700 years ago.

Giant short faced bear: arctodus simus

Solnitsata is Солницата or ‘salt works’. A neolithic settlement dating to almost 7000 years ago

Bonu Ighinu culture, is a 7100 to 6500 year old neolithic culture from the north west of Sardinia

Cromlechs are megalithic structures. Consisting of a circle of standing stones, arranged in a particular pattern or formation

Neolithic Architecture, Newgrange, Ireland

Snowmastodon: Oct 14, 2010, fossils were discovered by accident during the construction of a reservoir to supply Snowmass ski village with water.

New Mexico white sands fossilized footprints – 21,000-23,000 years ago

Neolithic Architecture, 300 million years of Beetles

Sabre tooth cats, most recognized from the giant find at Los Angeles La Brae tar pits, has a genus name that comes from Brazilian fossils in 1842.

Neolithic architecture article on Dolmens in Japan, Popular Mechanics 1880, By Edward Morse

Neolithic Architecture Masterpiece: Dolmen of Menga, Antequera, Spain

Neolithic Site: El Fin del Mundo (‘End of the Earth), Sonora, Mexico

Hamangia culture is big in Dobruja (Romania and Bulgaria)

Karanovo culture is Карановска култура. Romanized: Karanovska kultura. A neolithic culture named after the village.

Durankulak is Дуранкулак is a neolithic archaeological site