stones



What are stones? ** Stones are a construction material that can be found on nature and has great characteristics for resist trough years. It very strong and resistant and it’s easily to cut and carving. Their color is generally neutral and easily to combine. ** Stones are very resistant and strong, that make it a heavy material difficult to transport and cut. Also they come in different colors and textures this depends on were it was found.
 * ** How many kinds of stone do you know? **
 * Well I know that existed a lot of kinds of stones but I just know about the must popular like marble, granite or sandstone. **
 * ** What characteristics do stones have? **
 * ** Why are stones used in construction? **
 * I think that first it was an easy material to found because it was in nature but latter the primitive civilizations realize the great characteristics that this material has and it stared to be use on construction and today is steal one of the principal construction material.

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Stone was one of the first materials of construction and its great characteristics help it to still being one of the most important material construction. Stone has several advantages that ancient civilizations knew, like durability, adaptability to sculptural treatment and its natural state. But it has also some disadvantages like the difficulty to transport and cut.

There are some types of stonework by using different stones and forms. First we have rubble which is made of broken stone; also there is the Ashlar masonry which is a type of rectangular cut forming blocks, so with the stone blocks is possible to form a strong structure which is call entablature. This process is made since the ancient civilizations like Stonehenge and it is still being used in our age.

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