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6000 BCE, Shaped mudbrick, connected city,
Catal Huyuk
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7000-6000 BCE, Stone, lime plaster floors and walls, walled city
Jericho, Jordan
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Greek megas: great + lithic: stone
Megalithic
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Trabeated construction, vertical uprights supporting beam, no mortar
post and lintel
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Dolmen tomb, 1500 BCE
Carnac, Brittany
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Successive cources of masonry project forward progressively from the wall to bridge the gap.
Corbeling
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A dolmen tomb earth cover
barrow
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Stand alone neolithic megalith
menhirs
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rows or circular groups of megalithic monuments
cromlechs
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3 types of Dolmens
Chamber tomb, Passage grove, Gallery grove
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1 roof and 2+ vertical supports, megaliths
Chamber tomb
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Rectangular or hexagonal approach, collective, neolithic
Passage grave
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Long rectangle divided, no entrance, neolithic
Gallery grave
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Passage grave, Tumulus 150' diameter, concentric retaining walls, central chamber w/ 6 side chambers w/ corbel roofing.
Quarterness, Orkney Islands, Great Britain. 3000BCE
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3 structures, post and lintel portals, hammer hole decoraction, corbelled roofs, alter apses, carved bas-relief
Hal Tarxien, Malta
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