Timeline and Neolithic Period

Timeline of Architectural Styles

Ancient:

Neolithic or “Stone Age” – 7000 – 3000 B.C.

Egyptian – 3000 – 30 B.C.

Greek – 1200 – 30 B.C.

Roman – 200 B.C. – 500 A.D.

Middle Ages:

Romanesque – 900 – 1150 A.D.

Gothic – 1120 – 1500 A.D.

Renaissance – 1350 – 1500 A.D.

Baroque – 1600 – 1750 A.D.

Romantism – 1750 – 1850 A.D.

Neoclassical – 1850 – 1900 A.D.

Modern:

Art Nouveau – 1850 – 1940 A.D.

Art & Crafts – 1870 – 1960 A.D.

International Style – 1910 A.D. - present

Bauhaus – 1925 – 1950 A.D.

Post Modern – 1925 – 1980 A.D.

This timeline comes from http://www.seemydesign.com/livingroom/elementsideas/archtrim/architectstyle.htm, but on other sites, most of these styles were apparent and commonly mentioned.

Neolithic Period; “Stone Age”: 7000 – 3000 B.C.

An example from this period, which is known by many, is the famous Stonehenge. Other stone circles and the begining of British Castles are also examples of Neolithic Architecture. Huge stones called Megaliths, weighing up to 4 tons, and Trilithons weighing about 45 tons were used in Neolithic architecture. (http://www.castles.me.uk/neolithic-architecture.htm) Other materials used are wattle and daub and mud-brick. Wattle and daub is used for making walls and is a woven lattice of wooden strips (the wattle) is (daubed) with a sticky material that is most commonly made of a combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung, and straw. Mud-bricks are just bricks made of a mixture of mud, sand, clay, water, and held together by a binding material of rice husks or straw. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_and_daub) The structure of houses in the Neolithic times were huts, earlier on walls made of posts, and later on made of mud bricks, all built independently from each other. (http://www.fhw.gr/chronos/01/en/nl/housing/nl_arch.html)