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Conservation Approaches to Earthen Architecture in Archaeological Contexts

Louise Cooke
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This publication summarises research investigating approaches to the conservation and management of earthen architecture. A number of these different earth-building techniques also make use of earthen mortars and/or earth plasters or renders. In these different forms earth has been used as a building material for domestic, religious, burial, administrative, palatial and domestic structures for the last ten millennia - the legacy is both monumental and vernacular. This research explores these approaches to earthen architecture around the world, and with particular reference to the study area - Iran, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. The different approaches to conservation and management are critiqued in relation to their practical effectiveness, relationship to conservation theory, values of earthen architecture and sustainability. This study uses the identification of the materials and techniques used for the conservation and management of earthen architecture as a means to understand, articulate and explore attitudes and approaches to the building material, within the context of wider conservation and heritage theory. Part 1 examines earthen architecture, its study, use, physical properties and more abstract values. Part 2 examines conservation approaches to earthen architecture in archaeological contexts. The CD contains appendices of supporting data referred to in the main text.
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Abstract
  • Acknowledgemnets
  • Foreword
  • PART 1
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Earthen Architecture
  • Chapter 3: Study of earthen architecture
  • Chapter 4: Valuing materials and architecture
  • Chapter 5: Problems with earth – difficulties, physical constraints, conservation theory
  • Chapter 6: Earthen architecture in contemporary society
  • PART 2
  • Chapter 7: Conservation, management and heritage studies.
  • Chapter 8: Backfilling
  • Chapter 9: Capping and encapsulation
  • Chapter 10: Consolidation
  • Chapter 11: ‘Do nothing’
  • Chapter 12: Drainage and undercut repair
  • Chapter 13: Maintenance
  • Chapter 14: Reconstruction and restoration
  • Chapter 15: Removal/relocation
  • Chapter 16: Sheltering
  • Chapter 17: Critique and Discussion
  • Bibliography
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Published: 2010
Publisher: BAR Publishing
Copyright Holder: BAR Publishing
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407336893 (ebook)
  • 9781407306889 (paperback)
BAR Number: S2147
Subject
  • Multiperiod
  • Museum Studies / Conservation / Heritage / Education
  • Mesopotamia
  • Central and South Asia
  • Architecture / Domestic and Urban Buildings and Space / Urbanism
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