Ancient homes

Titre
Ancient homes

Saranne. Taylor

Sommaire
"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.

Date de publication comme intervalle
2015

Young architect

Description matérielle
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Table des matières
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.

Terme de vedette-matière
Domestic Architecture -- History.
 
Ancient Architecture.
 
Housing.
 
Civil engineering.
 
Civil engineering -- History.

Vedette secondaire auteur
Chiacchiera, Moreno,
 
Todd, Michelle, 1978-

Résumé
"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.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780778714378
 
9780778714538

Informations de publication
St. Catharines, Ontario : Crabtree Publishing Company, 2015.


BibliothèqueNuméro de rayonType de documentCode à barres du documentStatut
George P. Nicholson728 TAYBook31004000225115Non-Fiction