INT 231- Ruth Hernández

History of Interiors, Art, and Furnishing  Ruth Hernández Silva  Prehistoric History  Prehistoric architecture is the collection of buildings made it at least 4,000 years before Christ and before the Egyptian pyramids appear. They are the first rudimentary structures created by humans, and thanks to them we know the first elements used construction. Prehistoric architectural constructions are studied from three periods of human evolution that make up what is known as the Stone Age: the Paleolithic, the Neolithic, and the Mesolithic. It was consisted of a series of constructions made of large stones. They were large, uncut blocks of stone found buried in the groun d. A menhir consists of a large stone stuck vertically into the ground. A dolmen is a structure made up of several menhirs and a large stone placed horizontally on top of them. A cromlech groups several menhirs together in a circle. A naveta is a structure shaped like an inverted ship made of large stone bloc...