Stone structures, or "megaliths", have been erected by mankind for thousands of years. Many of these structures were built around the same time, the 3rd millennium BC.
Some of the better-known ones:
- Easter Island
- Egyptian Pyramids
- Medicine wheels
- Stone circle
- Stone circle (Iron Age)
- Stonehenge
- Stone ship
See also:
- Petroforms
- Rock Art
- Inukshuk
Famous quotes containing the words stone and/or structures:
“Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)