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Mud is loam, silt or clay mixed with water. It is usually formed after rainfall or near water sources. Ancient mud deposits hardened over geological time...

sticks are interwoven between upright poles, and then mud mixed with straw and grass is plastered over the wall. The technique is found around the world,...

cope with floods. On the flat lands, adobes are usually made of mud or sun-baked bricks, then plastered inside and out, sometimes with mud mixed with hay...

assembled, with the application of adobe mud to bond the individual bricks into a structure. There is no standard size, with substantial variations over the...

nests are made of sticks plastered together with mud and lined with weeds and rootlets. There are usually 3–5 eggs incubated over 16 days. Both parents feed...

American continents built semi-permanent houses of poles and brush plastered with mud over a shallow pit in the earth. As these pithouses were very similar...

partitioned by a series of walls with no doorways or other access portals. The walls of this kiva were plastered with one color on one side and a different...

mud pillars, trees or even wells to guide commuters. The 16th-century Pashtun ruler Sher Shah Suri introduces improved brick pillars plastered over with...

again when the air humidity is low. The area and the thickness of the plastered wall have the greatest influence on the ability of the clay plaster to...

(internal to the bales or on their faces), or with surface wire meshes, and then stuccoed or plastered, either with a lime-based formulation or earth/clay render...

sustained some collapse of exterior walls. Mud and corn stubble was picked up from farm fields near Dunkerton and plastered thickly against fences, power poles...

mud walls, the paintings are drawn twice and perhaps even more times, a year. Sometimes the art can also be seen on brick walls which are plastered with...

round mud-brick houses, yet no street planning. Circular dwellings were built of clay and straw bricks left to dry in the sun, which were plastered together...

deteriorate in wetter climates. These mud constructions were usually plastered with mud mixed with other materials. The defensive purpose of this was to create...

round huts made up of a framework of tree branches plastered with mud and the conical roof thatched with local grasses. A typical Kara village has 20 to...

gypsum plaster. Walls constructed with stock bricks are normally plastered while face brick walls are not plastered. Various cement-based plasters are...

22 Jacobs Rd, Durban Constructed of stone and plastered brick with four-storied tower the entrance with castellations abo Declared a national monument...

ancestor cult where people preserved skulls of the dead, which were plastered with mud to make facial features. The rest of the corpse could have been left...

Then they were rammed, and a lattice of wattle was woven over it. Then it was plastered with mud. The floor was also rammed down. Next, a few short wattle...

stone or adobe, and occasionally jacal. Usually these buildings were plastered with adobe both inside and outside. Kiva - Circular underground buildings...