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Arts

17 April, 14:47

Match the vocabulary word to the correct definition.

1. Woman of Willendorf

2. Nabta Playa

3. Newgrange

4. Passage tombs

5. Menhir

6. Portal tombs

a. The term for a megalith placed upright on one end

b. Constructed by having several upright stone blocks with a capstone placed over them

c. A passage tomb created in Ireland around 3200 BCE; made of a large circular mound of earth, with a passageway and chambers made of stone

d. Female figure thought to have been carved between 24,000 and 22,000 BCE

e. Consist of a stone passage way to a burial chamber, all of which is covered by an earthen mound

f. Site for one of the oldest astrological monuments known; found south of the present day-city of Cairo in Egypt and estimated to be about 1,000 years older than Stonehenge