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.

Found in Europe and Asia, the woolly rhino is paying homage to greek and Europeon tradition as ceolodonta antiquitatis or “hollow-tooth of antiquity”

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

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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.

The Khiamian culture is named after Khiam and the El Khiam point. An archaeological site with lithic technology discovered in southern Lebanon

God questions Job regarding the onager in the bible. A asiatic wild ass is native to Asia. With speed close to 70 km/h

Neolithic grains include emmer, einkorn wheats; barley; Millet; Oats; and rice

A type of round neolithic, often beehive-shaped, stone structures exist. Called tholoi. That dates back to 10,000 years ago.

In the west bank of the Jordan valley, Gilgal I had stored caches of fig, barley, oat, and acorn seeds. From 11,200 years ago

With some of the earliest signs of plant cultivation. And, brushwood dwellings. Ohalo II is an 23,000 year old archaeological site

Mureybet was archaeological. Located near the Euphrates river, in northern Syria

Tell Abu Hureyra is Arabic: ‫ة‬ ‫ر‬ ‫ي‬ ‫ر‬ ‫ه‬ ‫و‬ ‫ب‬ ‫أ‬ ‫ل‬ ‫ت‬. Evidence of a cosmic impact occured here 10800 years ago

Scientifically known as sus scrofa. Domestication of the pig, refers to a process. Wild boars were selectively bred and tamed by humans. 15,000 years ago

Ganj Dareh is treasure valley in Persian. It was excavated by a Canadian in the 60s & 70s. And, the site of the oldest site goat domestication in world

Tell Aswad is situated on the banks of an ancient lake in a rich natural setting

ʿAin Ghazal or “Spring of the Ghazal” maybe the site of the oldest largest statues ever discovered

The Sorcerer is 13000BC cave art. From ‘the sanctuary’ room. At 3 brothers cave, in mid-France

Know for burials with skulls missing there teeth. Ali Kosh is located in the Susian basin of SW Iran

Kitchens were alot different. PPN is pre-pottery neolithic

Ever since the remains of ten neanderthal men, women and children were found. Shanidar cave has been an important archaeological site in Iraqi Kurdistan

One of the most important consequences of the neolithic period. Was the domestication of cattle (b. taurus), from wild aurochs (b. primigenius). It occured in SW Asia