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Mudbrick, the Glossary

Mudbrick or mud-brick, also known as unfired brick, is an air-dried brick, made of a mixture of mud (containing loam, clay, sand and water) mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw.^[1]

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Adobe

Adobe is a building material made from earth and organic materials. Mudbrick and Adobe are appropriate technology, soil-based building materials and Sustainable building.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Amarna

Amarna (al-ʿAmārna) is an extensive ancient Egyptian archaeological site containing the remains of what was the capital city during the late Eighteenth Dynasty.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Brick

A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Mudbrick and brick are bricks and soil-based building materials.

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Chalcolithic

The Chalcolithic (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper.

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Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4). Mudbrick and clay are soil-based building materials.

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Compressed earth block

A compressed earth block (CEB), also known as a pressed earth block or a compressed soil block, is a building material made primarily from an appropriate mix of fairly dry inorganic subsoil, non-expansive clay, sand, and aggregate. Mudbrick and compressed earth block are appropriate technology, soil-based building materials and Sustainable building.

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Cooktown, Queensland

Cooktown is a coastal town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia.

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Crete

Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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Edfu

Edfu (bḥdt, إدفو,,; also spelt Idfu, or in modern French as Edfou) is an Egyptian city, located on the west bank of the Nile River between Esna and Aswan, with a population of approximately 60,000 people.

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Grain

A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption.

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Great Mosque of Djenné

The Great Mosque of Djenné (translit) is a large brick or adobe building in the Sudano-Sahelian architectural style.

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Indus Valley Civilisation

The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.

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Jericho

Jericho (Arīḥā,; Yərīḥō) is a city in the West Bank, Palestine; it is the administrative seat of the Jericho Governorate of Palestine. Mudbrick and Jericho are pre-Pottery Neolithic A.

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Kiln

A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes.

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Knossos

Knossos (pronounced; Knōssós,; Linear B: 𐀒𐀜𐀰 Ko-no-so) is a Bronze Age archaeological site in Crete.

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Levant

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.

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Loam

Loam (in geology and soil science) is soil composed mostly of sand (particle size >), silt (particle size >), and a smaller amount of clay (particle size These proportions can vary to a degree, however, and result in different types of loam soils: sandy loam, silty loam, clay loam, sandy clay loam, silty clay loam, and loam.

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Lumber

Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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McGraw Hill Education

McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.

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Mehrgarh

Mehrgarh is a Neolithic archaeological site (dated) situated on the Kacchi Plain of Balochistan in modern-day Pakistan.

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

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Minoan civilization

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.

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Mud

Mud is loam, silt or clay mixed with water. Mudbrick and Mud are soil-based building materials.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Niger

Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Plaster

Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.

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Pre-Pottery Neolithic A

Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) denotes the first stage of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, in early Levantine and Anatolian Neolithic culture, dating to years ago, that is, 10,000–8800 BCE.

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Rice

Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa.

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Richard T. Neer

Richard Theodore Neer is William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, Cinema & Media Studies and the College, and an affiliate of the Department of Classics, at the University of Chicago.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Sahel

The Sahel region or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographical region in Africa.

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Sand

Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Mudbrick and Sand are soil-based building materials.

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Sebakh

Sebakh (sabākh, less commonly transliterated as sebbakh) is an Arabic word that translates to "fertilizer".

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Shibam

Shibam Hadramawt (Shibām Ḥaḍramawt) is a town in Yemen.

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South Asia

South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.

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Southern Levant

The Southern Levant is a geographical region encompassing the southern half of the Levant.

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Straw

Straw is an agricultural byproduct consisting of the dry stalks of cereal plants after the grain and chaff have been removed.

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Stucco

Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water.

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Tower house

A tower house is a particular type of stone structure, built for defensive purposes as well as habitation.

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Troy

Troy (translit; Trōia; 𒆳𒌷𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭|translit.

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Vernacular architecture

Vernacular architecture (also folk architecture) is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance.

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Water

Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.

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Yemen

Yemen (al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a sovereign state in West Asia.

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Zinder

Zinder (locally, Damagaram), formerly also spelled Sinder, is the third largest city in Niger, with a population of 235,605 as by the 2012 census.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudbrick

Also known as Adobe brick, Adobe bricks, Banco architecture, Chirpici, Clay brick, Mud brick, Mud-brick, Mudbricks, Sun-dried brick.

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Bricks

Earth structures

Pre-Pottery Neolithic A

Soil-based building materials

Sustainable products

References