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Some Ancient Building Techniques

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Part of the book series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science ((HMMS,volume 33))

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In this chapter the main ancient building techniques are presented. The latter concern almost all the ancient civilizations, mainly in the Mediterranean area, and the Roman age in particular. Some examples of anti-seismic building techniques are also presented and some authors’ virtual reconstructions of ancient seismic isolators.

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Rossi, C., Russo, F. (2017). Some Ancient Building Techniques. In: Ancient Engineers' Inventions. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44476-5_22

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