Stone age

Question 1

a stone usually standing vertically on the middle of a field.

Answer 1

Menhir

Question 2

Is an assemblage of giant stones in Southern England. It came from henge, the Anglo-Saxon word for “hanging”

Answer 2

Stonehenge

Question 3

It makes up the earliest chunk of the Stone Age

Answer 3

PALEOLITHIC or OLD STONE AGE

Question 4

______ is coined in late 19th century CE by the Danish scholar _________ who came up with a framework for the study of the human past, known as the “Three Age System”. ​

Answer 4

Stone age, Christian J. Thomsen

Question 5

​​has 2 rows of columns that run the length of the building.

Answer 5

Basilica of Saint Praxedes

Question 6

a stone structure forming a table. It consists of 2 huge standing stones that support a horizontal giant stone.

Answer 6

Dolmen

Question 7

Circle of standing stones.

Answer 7

Cromlech

Question 8

_______ begins at the end of a period known in geology as the “Younger Dryas stadial”, the last cold snap, which marks the end of Ice Age, about 9,600 BCE.​

Answer 8

MESOLITHIC OR MIDDLE STONE AGE:​

Question 9

Begins with the introduction of farming. This age succeeds the Mesolithic or middle stone age.

Answer 9

NEOLITHIC OR NEW STONE AGE​

Question 10

The Mesolithic period ends when agriculture starts. This is the time of the _________

Answer 10

Late hunter gatherers