Mineral and mechanical characterization of earthen building materials from Argentina
- Autores
- Spengler, Gisela; Jiménez Milán, Juan; Campos Suñol, María José; Do Campo, Margarita Diana
- Año de publicación
- 2012
- Idioma
- inglés
- Tipo de recurso
- artículo
- Estado
- versión publicada
- Descripción
- Fil: Spengler, Gisela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Arqueología; Argentina.
Fil: Jiménez Milán, Juan. Universidad de Jaén. Departamento de Geología; España.
Fil: Campos Suñol, María José. Universidad de Jaén. Departamento de Geología; España.
Fil: Do Campo, Margarita Diana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Geocronología y Geología Isotopica. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Geocronología y Geología Isotopica; Argentina.
El apoyo económico fue proporcionado por el grupo de investigación RNM-325 de la Junta de Andalucía, y el proyecto UBACyT F086 de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Esta investigación fue realizada por una Beca de Doctorado del CONICET y una Beca de Posgrado de la AUIP.
Macla No. 16 (2012): Comunicaciones del Congreso SEM-SEA 2012, reunión conjunta de las sociedades españolas de Mineralogía (XXXII Reunión) y Arcillas (XXII Reunión), celebrado en Bilbao entre el 27 y 30 de Junio de 2012. Editores invitados: José Miguel Herrero, Javier Arostegi y Pedro Pablo Gil.
The use of sediments for the construction of earthen buildings was a technological development used in every continent, from prehistoric times until the present. Earthen building techniques are varied, and they can be classified in three general types: monolithic systems (rammed earth), brickworks (adobe o mudbrick), mixed systems (wattle and daub) and earthen plasters and mortars. Nevertheless, the recognition of archaeological evidence indicative of these kind of buildings is problematical, because this kind of architecture is vulnerable to destruction by weathering, especially by wind and water erosion. Rainer (2008) emphasized that, in addition to environmental variables, the type of building material is a key factor affecting their composition and deterioration. The presence of swelling clays, hydrolytic weathering of minerals, mechanical erosion produced by rain drops, meteo-climatic factors, and discontinuities produced by the geological materials are among the major causes that produce the physical and chemical deterioration of the earthen architecture. The determination of texture, plasticity and mineralogy is important to understand the behaviour of earthen building materials (Spengler et al. 2011). However, detailed mineral and petrographic investigations on the earthen building materials from Andean prehispanic cultures are scarces, and over NW Argentine cultures were never carried out. The aim of this contribution is to fill in part this gap. A petrographic classification of the earthen building materials will certainly contribute to understand their weathering and decay processes, and to define parameters for their determination in archaeological contexts. - Fuente
- Macla;16
- Materia
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Archaeological materials
Andean cultures
Earthen buildings
XRD
Petrography
Materiales arqueológicos
Clturas andinas
Tapial
Adobe
XRD
Petrografía
Arqueología - Nivel de accesibilidad
- acceso abierto
- Condiciones de uso
- Repositorio
- Institución
- Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
- OAI Identificador
- oai:repositorio.filo.uba.ar:filodigital/13195
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Mineral and mechanical characterization of earthen building materials from Argentina |
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Mineral and mechanical characterization of earthen building materials from Argentina |
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Mineral and mechanical characterization of earthen building materials from Argentina Spengler, Gisela Archaeological materials Andean cultures Earthen buildings XRD Petrography Materiales arqueológicos Clturas andinas Tapial Adobe XRD Petrografía Arqueología |
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Mineral and mechanical characterization of earthen building materials from Argentina |
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Mineral and mechanical characterization of earthen building materials from Argentina |
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Mineral and mechanical characterization of earthen building materials from Argentina |
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Mineral and mechanical characterization of earthen building materials from Argentina |
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Mineral and mechanical characterization of earthen building materials from Argentina |
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Spengler, Gisela Jiménez Milán, Juan Campos Suñol, María José Do Campo, Margarita Diana |
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Spengler, Gisela |
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Spengler, Gisela Jiménez Milán, Juan Campos Suñol, María José Do Campo, Margarita Diana |
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Jiménez Milán, Juan Campos Suñol, María José Do Campo, Margarita Diana |
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Archaeological materials Andean cultures Earthen buildings XRD Petrography Materiales arqueológicos Clturas andinas Tapial Adobe XRD Petrografía Arqueología |
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Archaeological materials Andean cultures Earthen buildings XRD Petrography Materiales arqueológicos Clturas andinas Tapial Adobe XRD Petrografía Arqueología |
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Fil: Spengler, Gisela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Arqueología; Argentina. Fil: Jiménez Milán, Juan. Universidad de Jaén. Departamento de Geología; España. Fil: Campos Suñol, María José. Universidad de Jaén. Departamento de Geología; España. Fil: Do Campo, Margarita Diana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Geocronología y Geología Isotopica. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Geocronología y Geología Isotopica; Argentina. El apoyo económico fue proporcionado por el grupo de investigación RNM-325 de la Junta de Andalucía, y el proyecto UBACyT F086 de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Esta investigación fue realizada por una Beca de Doctorado del CONICET y una Beca de Posgrado de la AUIP. Macla No. 16 (2012): Comunicaciones del Congreso SEM-SEA 2012, reunión conjunta de las sociedades españolas de Mineralogía (XXXII Reunión) y Arcillas (XXII Reunión), celebrado en Bilbao entre el 27 y 30 de Junio de 2012. Editores invitados: José Miguel Herrero, Javier Arostegi y Pedro Pablo Gil. The use of sediments for the construction of earthen buildings was a technological development used in every continent, from prehistoric times until the present. Earthen building techniques are varied, and they can be classified in three general types: monolithic systems (rammed earth), brickworks (adobe o mudbrick), mixed systems (wattle and daub) and earthen plasters and mortars. Nevertheless, the recognition of archaeological evidence indicative of these kind of buildings is problematical, because this kind of architecture is vulnerable to destruction by weathering, especially by wind and water erosion. Rainer (2008) emphasized that, in addition to environmental variables, the type of building material is a key factor affecting their composition and deterioration. The presence of swelling clays, hydrolytic weathering of minerals, mechanical erosion produced by rain drops, meteo-climatic factors, and discontinuities produced by the geological materials are among the major causes that produce the physical and chemical deterioration of the earthen architecture. The determination of texture, plasticity and mineralogy is important to understand the behaviour of earthen building materials (Spengler et al. 2011). However, detailed mineral and petrographic investigations on the earthen building materials from Andean prehispanic cultures are scarces, and over NW Argentine cultures were never carried out. The aim of this contribution is to fill in part this gap. A petrographic classification of the earthen building materials will certainly contribute to understand their weathering and decay processes, and to define parameters for their determination in archaeological contexts. |
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