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    This document provides information on various prehistoric sites in Europe, including Catal Huyuk in Turkey between 6300-5400 BC which contained figurines and bull skulls in shrines; Little Woodbury, an Iron Age roundhouse in Britain from around 600 BC; Maeshowe, a large Neolithic chambered cairn in Scotland from 3000-2800 BC; and Stonehenge, a stone circle monument in England built between 3000-1520 BC in stages, consisting of standing stones and connecting lintels.

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    This document provides information on various prehistoric sites in Europe, including Catal Huyuk in Turkey between 6300-5400 BC which contained figurines and bull skulls in shrines; Little Woodbury, an Iron Age roundhouse in Britain from around 600 BC; Maeshowe, a large Neolithic chambered cairn in Scotland from 3000-2800 BC; and Stonehenge, a stone circle monument in England built between 3000-1520 BC in stages, consisting of standing stones and connecting lintels.

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    This document provides information on various prehistoric sites in Europe, including Catal Huyuk in Turkey between 6300-5400 BC which contained figurines and bull skulls in shrines; Little Woodbury, an Iron Age roundhouse in Britain from around 600 BC; Maeshowe, a large Neolithic chambered cairn in Scotland from 3000-2800 BC; and Stonehenge, a stone circle monument in England built between 3000-1520 BC in stages, consisting of standing stones and connecting lintels.

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    This document provides information on various prehistoric sites in Europe, including Catal Huyuk in Turkey between 6300-5400 BC which contained figurines and bull skulls in shrines; Little Woodbury, an Iron Age roundhouse in Britain from around 600 BC; Maeshowe, a large Neolithic chambered cairn in Scotland from 3000-2800 BC; and Stonehenge, a stone circle monument in England built between 3000-1520 BC in stages, consisting of standing stones and connecting lintels.

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    PREHISTORIC PERIOD

    • Catal Huyuk
    • Little Woodbury
    • Maes Howe, Orkney Islands
    • Stonehenge, Wiltshire
    • Stone Alignments of Carnak, Brittany
    CATAL HUYUK
    LOCATION 
    • Neolithic monument in the present
    day of Turkey.

    • It aged between 6300BC to 5400BC

    • 32 acre Neolithic site in South-


    Central Turkey near modern city of
    Konya.
    SHRINES IN CATAL HUYUK
       They made figurines of clay
    and stone, which may have been
    gods and goddesses. They also
    mounted bull skulls on the walls
    of some buildings and covered
    them in plaster to resemble
    living heads. It is believed these
    buildings were shrines. Catal
    Huyuk was abandoned about
    5,000 BC.
    CATAL HUYUK DWELLINGS
    • Catal huyuk is mostly
    made of mud bricks

    • Houses were built


    touching against each
    other.

    • Houses were built


    touching each other the
    must have acted as
    streets.
    LITTLE WOODBURY
    The Little Woodbury
    roundhouse, like
    many of the
    buildings of this
    type, dates from the
    Iron Age, which
    started around
    600BC, and ‘ended’
    with the arrival of
    the Romans.
    MAESHOWE
    Maeshowe (pronounced `maze-ow' or `maze-oo') is a large Neolithic chambered cairn
    from between 3000-2800 BCE, Located in Stenness parish of Orkney, Scotland.

    name means `Meadow Mound’

    considered to be one of the finest architectural achievements of prehistoric in Europe.

    The whole impression is based to the idea of a "Neolithic cathedral and craftsmanship..

    The cairn was declared as a World Heritage site in 1999.

    It is now one of the tourist spot in Scotland.

    The site was first excavated in July 1861 CE by the antiquarian James Farrer.
    CHARACTISTIC:
    The mound has 35m in diameter and 7m high, consists
    mostly of packed stones and clay, with an inner layer of
    stones around the chamber itself.

    *The chamber is 4.5m square and about the same in


    height.

    *The entrance passage, 14.5m long and 1.4m high, is


    lined with huge slabs, the largest weighing over 3 tonnes.

    *It is surrounded by a trench 40 feet (12 metres) wide,


    and varying in depth from 4 to 8 feet (1-2 metres).

    *Farrer found the entrance passage blocked with rubble.


    STONEHENGE
    • Stonehenge is perhaps the world’s most famous prehistoric monument.

    • The name of the monument probably derives from the Saxon stan-hengen, meaning
    “stone hanging” or “gallows.”

    • Stonehenge was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1986.

    • Stonehenge was built in six stages between 3000 and 1520 BCE, during the transition
    from the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age) to the Bronze Age.

    • It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0
    m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting
    horizontal lintel stones.
    Suggested Purpose of the
    Monument:
    • Druid temple or (Professors temple.)

    • *“computer” to predict lunar and solar eclipses.

    • *Center of confederation.

    • * The stone represent the eternal afterlife.

    • * A place of healing.

    • *Tracking of time and season.

    • (explination)...

    • *English antiquarian John Aubrey and archaeologist William Stukeley believed


    that the structure to be a Druid temple or (Professors temple.)
    • *American astronomer Gerald Hawkins proposed that Stonehenge had been
    constructed as a “computer” to predict lunar and solar eclipses.

    • *Archaeologist Colin Renfrew hypothesized that Stonehenge was the centre


    of a confederation of Bronze Age chiefdoms.

    • *In 1998 Malagasy archaeologist Ramilisonina proposed that Stonehenge


    was built as a monument to the ancestral dead, the permanence of its stones
    representing the eternal afterlife.

    • *Achaeologists Tim Darvill and Geoffrey Wainwright suggested that


    Stonehenge was used in prehistory as a place of healing because ther found
    bones and has a injury.

    • *Studies of Stonehenge as a way of tracking time and seasons stretch back


    centuries, but until now it's remained unclear exactly how this might have
    worked.

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