mud brick
Speech parts
1. mud brick - Noun
2. mud brick - Adjective
Meaning
a brick made from baked mud
of or incorporating mud bricks
Source: WordNetAlternative names
mud-brick
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Neolithic peoples in the Levant, Anatolia, Syria, northern Mesopotamia and Central Asia were also accomplished builders, utilizing mud-brick to construct houses and villages.
Prehistory By the seventh millennium BC, people of a Neolithic culture had settled into a sedentary way of life there in fortified mud-brick villages, where they supplemented hunting and fishing on the Nile with grain gathering and cattle herding.
Since they were constructed of sun-dried mud-brick, little remains of them.
Their dwellings were restricted to immediate family members, and were constructed of mud-brick designed to remain cool in the heat of the day.
There are also a number of traditional mud-brick houses within these old limits, but they are for the most part dilapidated.
The Romans made fired clay bricks from about the beginning of the Empire, replacing earlier sun-dried mud-brick.