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| a type of megalithic structure composed of three stones, two posts and a lintel, served in prehistory as the basic architectual unity |
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| a fully three-dimensional work of art |
sculpture in the round |
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| a three-dimensional work of art carved out of a flat background surface |
relief sculpture |
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| in art, representations that imitate the reality in appearance of natural objects |
naturalism |
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| a large or upright stone |
menhir |
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| literally "big stones", large, usually rough, stones used in a monument or structure |
megaliths |
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| one whose primary method of subsistence depends on hunting animals and gathering edible plants and other foodstuffs from nature |
hunter-gatherer |
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| a type of a prehistoric megalithic structure made of two posts supporting a horizontal capstone |
dolmen |
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| a story of a people's origin |
creation myth |
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| the practice of investing plants, animals, and natural phenomena with human form or attributes |
anthropomorphism |
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| a pyramidal temple structure consisting of successive platforms with outside stairscases and a shrine at the top |
ziggurat |
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| a view that depicts several consecutive actions at once |
synoptic |
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| an upright stone slab carved with a commemorative design or inscription |
stele |
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| in ancient mesopotamia, government leaders who acted as intermediaries between gods and people and established laws |
priest-kings |
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| a scriptural father of the hebrew people |
patriarch |
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| a class or category of story with a universal theme |
narrative genre |
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| the science of separating metals from their ores |
metallurgy |
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| a pictoral convention in which the most important figures are represented in a larger size than others |
hiearchy of scale |
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| a word or phrase that characterizes a person |
epithet |
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| a long narrative poem in elevated language that follows characters of a high position through a series of adventures, often including a visit to the world of the dead |
epic |
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| a writing system composed of wedge-shaped characters |
cuneform writing |
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| governments based on urban centers of the mesopotamian basin that controlled neighboring regions, also an independent self governing city |
city-states |
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