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| circular monuments such as Stonehenge |
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| large stone structures (Menhir: single standing stone) - megalith tombs in Ireland associated with graves |
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| family burial places? often contained skeletons when excavated |
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| Buff-colored pottery (Hohokam) |
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| early pre-classic A.D. 200-750 first pottery |
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| Basket maker III A.D. 600-750 first truly well made pottery in the southwest |
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| Pit House period A.D. 200-1,000 |
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| Poverty point site 1,500-700 B.C. used for cooking |
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| areas where there is evidence of stone firepits and controlled ash deposits |
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| Native American paintings on rock |
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| symbolic rock carvings, made with stone tools |
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| semi subterranean house- rock art |
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| used by Moche people for irrigation and to connect rivers to fields |
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| Aztecs had them, had to get a ball through a small hoop using hips, legs anything except their hands or feet-it was a game of life and death |
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| used more elaborate symbolism (Classic Hohokam) |
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| man-made mesas, made by mound builder societies |
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large, round subsurface ceremonial structures; mogollon area pueblo period
Have benches, Vertical structures to hold up a roof, Modern day church-used for rituals
Pueblos |
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large, round subsurface ceremonial structures; mogollon area pueblo period
Have benches, Vertical structures to hold up a roof, Modern day church-used for rituals |
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| above ground architecture, anasazi pueblo I period |
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| pueblo bonito of pueblo II 900-1150 AD |
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| Advanced road system between anasazi cities |
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| Pueblo II period A.D. 900-1150 |
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| human bones that have been processed (evidence of cannibalism?) |
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| 5,000 ya; system of recording info in knots tied together in a net |
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| stone structure representing a God at Chavin de Huantar |
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| 3rd largest prehistoric structure in the New World (Cahokia) |
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| giant wall protecting the outer limits of a city from anything on the outside |
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| Native American paintings on rock |
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| symbolic rock carvings, made with stone tools |
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| used by the Aztecs, picture writing/glyphs before Spanish influence (not real writing) |
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| used by Moche people for irrigation and to connect rivers to fields |
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| Aztecs had them, had to get a ball through a small hoop using hips, legs anything except their hands or feet-it was a game of life and death |
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| secondary trait of civilization, ex: ziggurats, pyramids of giza |
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| man-made mesas, made by mound builder societies |
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| rectangular shape pyramid typically with flat top |
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| found in mayan stairway, depicted soldiers and sacrifices |
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| Mayans used glyphs, others used pictographs |
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| in mayan culture lord donned god-masks (Ch'ul Anau) |
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| system of calendars of pre-columbrian mesoamericasystem of calendars of Pre-Columbian Meso-america. Mayan calendar starts 3,114 B.C. |
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| largest pyramid in Teotihuacan |
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| main axis of city. stretches to citadel and temple of the moon |
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| second largest pyramid in Teotihuacan |
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| fortress on high ground protecting a city |
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| method of ancient Meso-american agriculture |
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| in egypt. logograms representing words |
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| consisted of Greek, Egyptian, and another language= allowed us to read Egyptian hieroglyphics bc it was the same passage |
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| oldest of 3 in Egypt. in Giza. built for tomb for pharaoh Khufu |
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| earliest known forms of written expression |
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