A sun-dried brick made from a mixture of earth, water and often straw or another binding fiber, one of the oldest and most widespread building materials. It is the traditional material of Pueblo architecture in the American Southwest and of major West African monuments such as the mosques of the Mali sahel, and it remains common in vernacular and low-energy construction across arid climates.
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Element Kind First Used EraNeolithic Near East, with construction dated to before 5,100 years before present, among the oldest building materials still in use; historically widespread also in the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. 1 Era
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1. Adobe (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Adobe, Lead section
Adobe architecture has been dated to before 5,100 BP.
Wikipedia: Adobe
Most adobe buildings are similar in appearance to cob and rammed earth buildings. Adobe is among the earliest building materials, and is used throughout the world.
English Wikipedia, Adobe, lead section, first paragraph
is a building material made from loam and organic materials. Adobe is Spanish for mudbrick.
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- Associated With: Vernacular Architecture
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Adobe had been in use by indigenous peoples of the Americas in the Southwestern United States, Mesoamerica, and the Andes for several thousand years.
Wikidata: Great Mosque of Djenne
Seen In: Great Mosque of Djenné, Infobox material field: AdobeView the Source Larabanga Mosque (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationSeen In: Larabanga Mosque, Infobox material field: AdobeView the Source Social Hall (Salt Lake City) (Wikipedia)
Seen In: Social Hall (Salt Lake City), Infobox material field: Stone/AdobeView the Source Carthage - Wikipedia
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mud brick walls and beaten clay floors
Copán (Wikipedia)
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These early buildings were built of stone and adobe
Teotihuacan (Wikipedia)
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The architecture was different, featuring round adobe structures, as well as foreign pottery and artifacts identified as belonging to the Gulf Coast region.
Taos Pueblo - Wikipedia
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Taos Pueblo's most prominent architectural feature is a multi-storied residential complex of reddish-brown adobe, built on either side of the Rio Pueblo.
Monks Mound (Wikipedia)
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The structure rises in four terraces to a height of 100 feet (30 m) with a rectangular base covering nearly 15 acres (6.1 ha) and containing 22 million cubic feet of adobe, carried basket by basket to the site.
De Vargas Street House (Wikipedia)
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The De Vargas Street House is a two-story adobe building; the first floor is original and the second floor was reconstructed based on the original in the 1920s.
Branciforte Adobe (Wikipedia)
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The Branciforte Adobe has 2-foot-thick (0.61 m) adobe mud plastered walls which are still remaining, a tile roof classic to the Spanish era later changed to redwood shake, and a veranda on the front rebuilt in the 1980s.
José Castro House (Wikipedia)
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The José Castro House (Spanish: Casa José Castro), sometimes known as the Castro-Breen Adobe, is a historic adobe home in San Juan Bautista, California, facing the Plaza de San Juan.
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