From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Sat 20 Jun 1998 - 01:14:14 EEST
Simon Phipp:
> This may well be a model for rural Sartarites but urban Sartarites
> use more sophisticated stonework. After all, Sartar and his sons used
> stoneworking techniques to create cities. That is not to say that all
> urban buildings are of good stonework or that all rural ones are
> dry-stone built.
On a shameless tangent, note that some "dry stone" building techniques
Exactly how they did this is up there with concave-hollowed granite
Obglorantha: let's have them all there, or some yet more whacky variant!
are actually _hideously_ sophisticated, using it in its most general
sense of "mortarless". The extreme examples of this are the central
american culturs (I think perhaps the Toltecs, don't quote me on this)
who managed to build dry-jointed structures with _huge_ stones, so
exactly that one can't get a razorblade between two adjacent blocks.
Try asking your local brickie to do that...
vases and crystal skulls, needless to say.
Slainte,
Alex.
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