1. The city

2. There are different places in the cities nowadays
HOSPITAL PARK SCHOOL
CLOTHES SHOP BUTCHER´S
CHURCH

3. PET SHOP SWEETS SHOP
BUS STATION TRAIN STATION

4. MONUMENTS TOY SHOP
SUPERMARKET BAKERY

5. But, in the Prehistory, all of those
places didn´t exist.

6. People used to live in caves

7. There, they used to make handprints

8. And they only started to build
architectural structures at the end
of the
Neolithic Period (5500-4500 a.c)

9. Those first structures are known as
the
MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS

10. MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS

11. • The megalithic monuments are prehistoric
monuments done with long and big stones.

12. They were done both at the end of the
Neolithic Period and the Metal Period
Cromlech “Lous Couraus”, France

13. They are the first big architectural
structures done in the western Europe.
Dolmen “Los Gabrieles”, Spain

14. -CROMLECH-
“Stonehenge”, England

15. • A cromlech is a megalithic monument which
consists on a circle made of stones.

16. DOLMEN

17. A dolmen is a megalithic construction which
generally consists on several flagstones stuck in
the floor in a vertical position, and in a big
flagstone supported over all of them.

18. • This monument has a chamber shape and is
surrounded several times by a great amount of
soil.

19. MENHIR

20. A menhir is the
most simple way of
megalithic
monument.

21. It consists on a long stone, slightly carved,
put on the floor in a vertical position.
Menhires in “El Carnac”, France

22. PALAFITOS

23. • The Palafitos were houses supported by
pillars.

24. They were built in calm water, such as
lakes, but sometimes they were built at the
seaside.
The seaside A lake