Adobe, as a mixture of sand, silt and clay, was widely utilized throughout the Prehispanic American Southwest and Mexican Northwest. The most common for of adobe used is called puddled adobe, and this technology was used as a structural building technology from about AD 1100-1400.
Puddled adobe is adobe in every sense of the word, that is an earthen building material that relies upon the hydrostatic bonding abilities of feldspar and aluminum in wet matrix that is allowed to dry into a solid mass.
Many architectural and archaeological research texts still state that adobe bricks were an introduction of Spanish colonists, which is now known to not be true. Crude hand-shaped bricks have been found in ancient sites across the southwest (often called turtlebacks as the bricks are laid in a semi plastic state resulting in a slumping "turtle" shaped brick). True form-molded adobes can be found at ancestral Puebloan village sites along little Colorado river, dating to the 14th century AD.
Who-hoo! My 100 page masters thesis distilled down to three paragraphs.
Phoenix Falling?
yeah, somehow the wiki is not painting the entire pic there jonas...for the life of me i have no idea based on what i googled...
but if there was ever a thread that needed some mdler/tumbles sex romp to break up the tension, this is it...
it represents the whole area usa took in a imperial war against mexico.
it matters not if those type of cactus are not in the 1 city you are budque.
no thanks postal, maybe take it back to a talk about hypothetical current and past civilizations falling, but we don't need sexist jokes.
and i don't think it can be argued any more by revisionists that the Americas did not have adobe before Spain took over.
Where is tumbleweed when you really need her?
who did mexico take the land from?
Just to clarify:
Adobe, as a mixture of sand, silt and clay, was widely utilized throughout the Prehispanic American Southwest and Mexican Northwest. The most common for of adobe used is called puddled adobe, and this technology was used as a structural building technology from about AD 1100-1400.
Puddled adobe is adobe in every sense of the word, that is an earthen building material that relies upon the hydrostatic bonding abilities of feldspar and aluminum in wet matrix that is allowed to dry into a solid mass.
Many architectural and archaeological research texts still state that adobe bricks were an introduction of Spanish colonists, which is now known to not be true. Crude hand-shaped bricks have been found in ancient sites across the southwest (often called turtlebacks as the bricks are laid in a semi plastic state resulting in a slumping "turtle" shaped brick). True form-molded adobes can be found at ancestral Puebloan village sites along little Colorado river, dating to the 14th century AD.
Who-hoo! My 100 page masters thesis distilled down to three paragraphs.
thanks Dug, I dig it.
thank you
these revisionists and spinners are always tring to force lies,
HOMMIE DON'T PLAY THAT! :D
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