Ancient homes

Título
Ancient homes

Saranne. Taylor

Resumen
"What kind of houses did they build in ancient times? Did they use the same materials as today? How can archaeologists tell so much about buried towns and buildings when they dig up the ruins? An architect's notebook helps answer these questions in Ancient Homes."--Page 4 of cover.

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
2015

Young architect

Descripción física
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Contenido
Mud towers -- Inside an ancient site -- Architect's notebook : Town planning -- Architect's notes : grid -- Museums -- Choosing a site -- Architect's words : settlement -- What do we need? -- Architect's notebook : Ancient tools and technology -- Moving stones -- 9,000 years ago! -- Petra -- architect's notebook: Water engineering -- Flooded! the story of Atlantis -- Pompeii -- Archaeologist's words: excavation -- New or old technology? -- Architect's notes: underfloor heating -- Activity: design your own mosaic 30 glossary -- Learning more -- Index.

Término de la materia
Domestic Architecture -- History.
 
Ancient Architecture.
 
Housing.
 
Civil engineering.
 
Civil engineering -- History.

Autor añadido
Chiacchiera, Moreno,
 
Todd, Michelle, 1978-

Síntesis
"What kind of houses did they build in ancient times? Did they use the same materials as today? How can archaeologists tell so much about buried towns and buildings when they dig up the ruins? An architect's notebook helps answer these questions in Ancient Homes."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN
9780778714378
 
9780778714538

Información de publicación
St. Catharines, Ontario : Crabtree Publishing Company, 2015.


BibliotecaSignatura topográficaTipo de materialCódigo de barras del documentoEstado
George P. Nicholson728 TAYBook31004000225115Non-Fiction