https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h Notes from Neolithic period en-us 2017-11-15 12:23:49 UTC 2017-12-13 12:35:35 UTC hello@padlet.com 17olacki https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/207148274 Pollen is a fine to coarse powdery substance comprising pollen grains]]> 2017-11-15 12:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/207148274 17olacki https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/207150263 The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC.]]> 2017-11-15 12:37:46 UTC https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/207150263 17olacki https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/213658334 Porcellanite is a hard, dense rock somewhat similar in appearance to unglazed porcelain]]> 2017-12-06 12:20:39 UTC https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/213658334 17olacki https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/213659107 Wattle and daub is a composite building material used for making walls, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw.

]]> 2017-12-06 12:23:59 UTC https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/213659107 17olacki https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/213660389 Quern-stones are stone tools for hand-grinding a wide variety of materials. They are used in pairs. The lower, stationary, stone is called a quern, while the upper mobilestone is called a handstone. They were first used in the Neolithic to grind cereals into flour.

]]> 2017-12-06 12:29:02 UTC https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/213660389 17olacki https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/213661322 a large stone that forms a prehistoric monument (e.g. a standing stone) or part of one (e.g. a stone circle).]]> 2017-12-06 12:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/213661322 17olacki https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/215748522 Ireland has a number of megalithic monuments, typically comprising one of four types of megalithic tombs: court cairns, passage tombs, portal dolmens and wedge tombs.]]> 2017-12-13 12:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/215748522 17olacki https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/215748992 The court cairn or tomb is a megalithic type of chamber tomb and gallery grave, specifically a variant of the chambered cairn, found in western and northern Ireland, and in mostly southwest Scotland (where it may also be called a horned cairn or Clyde-Carlingford tomb), around 4000–3500 BC]]> 2017-12-13 12:09:00 UTC https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/215748992 17olacki https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/215750158 A dolmen is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more vertical megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone ("table"), although there are also more complex variants. Most date from the early Neolithic(4000–3000 BC). Dolmens were typically covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus. In many instances, that covering has weathered away, leaving only the stone "skeleton" of the burial mound intact.]]> 2017-12-13 12:14:15 UTC https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/215750158 17olacki https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/215751821 The Megalithic Passage Tomb at Newgrange was built about 3200 BC. ... The passage and chamber of Newgrange are illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise.]]> 2017-12-13 12:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/215751821 17olacki https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/215752325 2017-12-13 12:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/215752325 17olacki https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/215753240 A corbel arch (or corbeled / corbelled arch) is an arch-like construction method that uses the architectural technique of corbeling to span a space or void in a structure, such as an entranceway in a wall or as the span of a bridge. A corbel vault uses this technique to support the superstructure of a building'sroof.]]> 2017-12-13 12:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/17olacki/xd830oq65u5h/wish/215753240