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Su Nuraxi, Barumini: A Quick Prehistory Guide
Su Nuraxi Barumini in one sweep: tower, bastion, village. Spot niches, stairs, and drains—and learn why this dry-stone complex still stands.

Nuraghi of Sardinia: Bronze Age Towers Explained
Stone towers, smart geometry. Discover how Sardinia’s nuraghi were built, how they worked with villages and views, and why their dry-stone rooms endure.

Building With Earth, Wood, and Bone in Prehistory
No concrete, no steel. Explore prehistoric building materials—earth, wood, fiber, bone—and how care turned repairs into resilient design you can still read.

Megaliths Explained: Menhirs, Dolmens, Stone Circles
Big stones, small tools, careful plans. Discover how megalithic constructions—menhirs, dolmens, stone circles—were built, used, and read as landscapes.

Homes Before Houses: Huts, Pit Houses, Longhouses
What did prehistoric dwellings really do? Learn how huts, pit houses, and longhouses turned climate, tools, and care into everyday plans you can still read.

Prehistoric Architecture: From Shelter to Symbol
From huts to megaliths, prehistoric architecture shows how simple shelters turned into symbols—care became design, and design became culture.

Venus of Willendorf: 10 Fast Facts and Myths
Out at the rock face, we ask the first question: carved in or painted on? With a few trail-ready checks—edge profiles, pigment residues, patina—we can read age, method, and sometimes meaning. No jargon, just sharp eyes.

Hand Stencils in Rock Art: What, How, and Why
Breath, pigment, wall. A negative handprint appears like a sudden memory. We try the method, note pigment flow, and ask why: initiation? routes? teaching? The simplest gesture becomes a shared marker.

Prehistoric Sculpture: Venus Figurines to Totems
We hold what they held: palm-sized stones, bone carvings, wood figures. Portable images travel with people, rituals, and stories. Tool marks tell us how; wear tells us who. Making becomes a way to remember.

From Hands to Geometry: Reading Prehistoric Symbols
We follow hands, dots, and lines from caves to paths. Patterns aren’t random—they’re memory helpers and social signals. Together we test ideas: counting, mapping, warning, belonging. Small marks; big coordination.

Petroglyphs vs Pictographs: The Clear Field Guide
Out at the rock face, we ask the first question: carved in or painted on? With a few trail-ready checks—edge profiles, pigment residues, patina—we can read age, method, and sometimes meaning. No jargon, just sharp eyes.

How Rock Art Was Made: Tools, Pigments, and Fire
We open the kit: stone flakers, grindstones, blow tubes, binders. Under torchlight, the wall helps model bodies. Technique is humble, effects are bold. We learn by doing—and by repairing what smoke and time change.

Rock Art: Prehistoric Marks That Changed Reality
We meet the wall as our first page. Charcoal, ochre, fingertips. Together we see how a scratch becomes a social tool—marking paths, fixing memories, and making places feel like home. Simple acts; huge consequences.
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