Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 2019 Paperback, 200 pages. Text is in French. Ancient societies often waterproofed their hydraulic installations with mortars, whether they were cisterns, pipes, fountains or thermal baths, but archaeological research did not tackle this problem until recently. What was the composition of these mortars wrongly qualified as hydraulic? Did this vary from time to time, from region to region, from owner or type of development? What were the manufacturing techniques? What about their modes of application? Can we date them and thus specify their duration and period of use? These are all questions that this book seeks to address based on a meeting held at the Mediterranean House of Human Sciences in Aix-en-Provence in 2016. Archaeologists, engineers, chemists, restorers, and historians explore here the close relationships that ancient hydraulics maintained with lime mortars to meet the sometimes disproportionate demand from users and optimize the efficiency of developments in natural environments often poor in water. Contributors include: Sophie Bouffier, Alessandra Broggi, Philippe Bromblet, Mathilde Carrive, Letizia Ceccarelli, Monica Ceci, F.M. Cifarelli, Federica Colaiacomo, Arnaud Coutelas,Anne-Marie D'Ovidio, Ivan Fumado Ortega, Antonello V. Greco, Felix Henke, S.J. Kay, Lynne C. Lancaster, Maria Laura Santarelli,Philippe Leveau,Alessandra Marchello, Frederic Mege, Milena Mimmo, Camilla Panzieri,Maria Paola Bracciale,Frank Schlutter, Andrea Schmolder-Veit, Ruth Siddall, C.J. Smith, Laura Thiemann, Marcello Turci. Seller Inventory # NV-E3O5-YBZI

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