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  2. Neolithic architecture - Wikipedia

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    Neolithic architecture refers to structures encompassing housing and shelter from approximately 10,000 to 2,000 BC, the Neolithic period. In southwest Asia, Neolithic cultures appear soon after 10,000 BC, initially in the Levant ( Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B ) and from there into the east and west.

  3. History of early and simple domes - Wikipedia

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    Drawing of an Assyrian bas-relief from Nimrud. Small domes in corbelled stone or brick over round-plan houses go back to the Neolithic period in the ancient Near East, and served as dwellings for poorer people throughout the prehistoric period, but domes did not play an important role in monumental architecture. [17]

  4. Neolithic long house - Wikipedia

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    This type of architecture represents the largest free-standing structure in the world in its era. [3] Long houses are present across numerous regions and time periods in the archaeological record. The long house was a rectangular structure, 5.5 to 7 m (18 to 23 ft) wide, of variable length, around 20 m (66 ft) up to 45 m (148 ft).

  5. Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps - Wikipedia

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    These settlements are a unique group of exceptionally well-preserved and culturally rich archaeological sites, which constitute one of the most important sources for the study of early agrarian societies in the region. [1] Contrary to popular belief, the dwellings were not erected over water, but on nearby marshy land.

  6. Puye Cliff Dwellings - Wikipedia

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    The Puye Cliff Dwellings are the ruins of an abandoned pueblo, located in Santa Clara Canyon on Santa Clara Pueblo Reservation land near Española, New Mexico.Established in the late 1200s or early 1300s and abandoned by about 1600, this is among the largest of the prehistoric Indian settlements on the Pajarito Plateau, showing a variety of architectural forms and building techniques.

  7. Timeline of North American prehistory - Wikipedia

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    The Four Corners area of the American Southwest suffered severe droughts late in the century, causing many Pueblos to abandon their cliff dwellings for irrigable settlements along the Rio Grande in southern New Mexico. 1300: Cliff Palace is abandoned. [20] [21] 1200–1400: Middle Mississippian culture in the Eastern Woodlands

  8. Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen - Wikipedia

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    Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen (German for 'Stilt house museum') is an archaeological open-air museum on Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Unteruhldingen, Germany, consisting of reconstructions of stilt houses or lake dwellings from the Neolithic and Bronze Age.

  9. The Primitive Hut - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of the primitive hut by Charles Dominique Eisen was the frontispiece for the second edition of Laugier's Essay on Architecture (1755). The frontispiece was arguably one of the most famous images in the history of architecture; it helped to make the essay more accessible and consequently it was more widely received by the public.