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What was the first style in architecture?

The dwelling that pre-historic man made for himself about two and a half million years ago, was a cave, so the first style of architecture was little more than a rock with a natural hole in it ! This early man spoke no language and was only concerned with finding food to survive a very basic existence.

We do not know how man learned to speak a language, nor why he began to build better and more practical places in which to live, but both these things he came to do, partly perhaps as a result of his developing intelligence. He started building timber cabins and homes of grass and leaves, skins and logs, and went on to advance and improve his dwellings as he discovered things such as fire and metals around 8000 BC.

The first great buildings showing a well established architectural form, were the pyramids which the Egyptians built in the Nile Valley around 4000 BC and also the settlements of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia around the same time. The earliest formal construction in the British Isles is Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, probably begun about 1900 BC.