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Ancient civilizations are reduced to rubble, whole cultures destroyed, 90% of the world's 600 surviving languages will have been wiped out this century.
Excavation down through the room floors inside the front structure wall revealed a series of typical subfloor rubble deposits.
Inside the walls houses were in flames, others had collapsed in rubble, covering the injured and the dead.
Walls of this type tend to be reinterpretations of traditional rubble walls.
The breccias consist mainly of bottle-green basalt and dolerite rubble mixed with subordinate amounts of reddish, finegrained matrix.
Most remarkable is the final scheme of 1926 for the pigsty and stable block, in which the monopitched pigsty is fringed with reed thatch and massive rubble walling [7b].
A still image opens the structure - three actors are seated amidst the rubble, and three actors stand, each literally 'framed' as a picture within the frames each holds.
As he discarded the distracting rubble, he would eventually reach the "rock or the clay," or an immutable intellectual foundation that was free of faulty assumptions.
The problems of maintaining a fabric, especially when initially rather shoddily built out of what was essentially rubble, served as a constant headache for members of the cathedral community.
Rubble platform in background, rubble patio in foreground.
The paper presents the bristle theory and traction experiments relating to a robot, which uses a sensor system for detecting the shapes of pipes or tunnel like voids within rubble.
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