a hard, typically green stone used for ornaments and implements and consisting of the minerals jadeite or nephrite.
What is jade?
100
a triangular bone in the lower back formed from fused vertebrae and situated between the two hipbones of the pelvis
What is sacrum?
100
A storytelling format originally used in ancient civilizations using relief on sculpted surfaces. The story is illustrated in narrative bands or friezes.
What is a register?
200
The place where an archeological object has been found.
What is findspot?
200
a coloring matter or substance
What is pigment?
200
a representation of the elements of a system using abstract, graphic symbols rather than realistic pictures
What is schematic representation?
200
a decorative design or pattern
What is motif?
200
relief in which forms and figures stand out from the background to half or more than half of their natural depth
What is high relief?
300
a single large block of sarsen stone standing within the Avenue outside the entrance of the Stonehenge earthwor
What is heel stone?
300
system with a header or architrave as the horizontal member over a building void supported at its ends by two vertical columns or pillars
What is post and lintel?
300
a convention of representation in which part of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally
What is twisted perspective?
300
a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase; earliest known form of writing
What is a pictograph?
300
a kind of sculpture in which shapes are carved so that they are only slightly higher than the flat background
What is bas relief?
400
a prehistoric monument consisting of a circle of stone or wooden uprights
What is henge?
400
a form of ancient Chinese jade artifact
What is cong?
400
a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand
What is enigma?
400
a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple
What is ziggurat?
400
plan that incorporates two or more angular changes of direction, characteristic of Sumerian architecture
What is bent-axis plan?
500
a large stone that forms a prehistoric monument (e.g., a menhir) or part of one (e.g., a stone circle or chamber tomb)
What is a Megalith?
500
circles with a common center
What is concentric circles?
500
a structure consisting of two large vertical stones (posts) supporting a third stone set horizontally across the top (lintel).
What is trilithons?
500
method of construction using a flat roof and columns (but not arches)
What is apadana?
500
an adornment on utensils or works of art in the form of a frontal view of an animal head or bust of a human