ARCHAIC TECHNICAL TRENDS AT THE BEGINNINGS OF ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

Examining the character of the evolution of early - prehistoric, Near-Eastern and Egyptian - architecture and comparing it to the trend of an archaic technique, the concept of generalization has been formulated. Its six stages - (instinctive) recognition, extreme trials, universal implements, specialized equipment, composite tools, survival -are also characteristic of early architecture, and universal tools seem to have early local architectural types, specialized ones, regional archictectural types as counterparts. The presented trend of generalization seems to be valid in other fields of research, too.