Stonehenge

Salisbury Plain, 

England, 2000 BCE, 

Neolithic

Newgrange Cairn with Passage Grave Newgrange, Ireland.

c. 3000 BCE

Neolithic

Çatal Hüyük

Konya, Turkey

c. 7,400 to 5,700 BCE

Neolithic Period 

City map and volcano

Çatal Hüyük, near Konya, Turkey

c. 5800 BCE, 

painted plaster

Shrine room reconstructions, 

Çatal Hüyük, near Konya, 

Turkey,

c. 5800 BCE

Mother-Goddess figurine

Çatal Hüyük, near Konya, Turkey

c. 6000 BCE,

Neolithic

[c. 7 ½ inches, terracotta (baked earth)]

 large, upright standing stone (French origin); similar to megalith (term with Greek roots) 

A prehistoric structure made up of two or more large upright stones supporting a large, flat, horizontal slab or slabs. 

A pile of stones or earth and stones that served both as a prehistoric burial site and as a marker of underground tombs. Dolmen-like structures are often built into cairns. 

 burial site consisting of a post-and-lintel constructed passage that tunnels through a cairn, with a dolmen-like structure at the center as a burial chamber

 arch or vault made up of inwardly projecting courses of stone