Re: Mycenaean baked clay bricks

On Feb 3, 3:24 pm, "Jack Linthicum" <jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Did the Mycenaean's or Minoan use baked clay bricks for building with and
if
so when do the earliest examples date to?

Except for roof tiles and minor architectural fixtures, such as plaques, as
well as pottery and other ceramics, I have not seen any evidence of the
Mycenaeans or MInoans having fired clay to make bricks, although they may
have intentionally fired constructions, such as walls, made of rammed earth.
Instead, they had abundant and diverse rock and loose stone, and the tools,
techniques and will to utilise this material.

A reread of every one of my books that mention Minoan architecture the
bricks are typlified as "sun baked". They also seem to have been very
thin, as bricks go.

Well, you could *look* at the photos of the houses at Akrotiri. What I
have seen, is not brickwork, but timber frame construction with some
kind of plaster, rock, mud, or whatever fill between the timber
framing. Which kinda supports the idea that they decended from the
Cucuteni. The photos I've seen also includ earthquake damage. Simple
brick would have collapsed. Timber frame is much more resistant to
collapse, and we see some of the houses still standing two or even
three stories tall despite the enormous earthquake that preceded the
eruption.

I spoze they did do some brickwork, but dont spoze they slept in
houses made of it. I would not. Nor would anyone else of any sense
familiar with the tectonic activity of the region.

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