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:
“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)