quarry

Examples of quarry in the following topics:

• The Nile River

  • High-quality building stones were abundant: the ancient Egyptians quarried limestone all along the Nile valley, granite from Aswan, and basalt and sandstone from the wadis (valleys) of the eastern desert.
  • The many achievements of the ancient Egyptians included the quarrying, surveying, and construction techniques that facilitated the building of monumental pyramids, temples, and obelisks; a system of mathematics; a practical and effective system of medicine; irrigation systems and agricultural production techniques; the first known ships; glass technology; and new forms of literature.

• Classifying Business Products

  • Forests, mines, and quarries provide extractive products to producers.
  • Quarries are examples of business that provide extractive products for other businesses.

• Flavian Architecture

  • The slaves undertook manual labor such as working in the quarries at Tivoli where the travertine was quarried, along with lifting and transporting the quarried stones 20 miles from Tivoli to Rome.

• The Pyramids of the Old Kingdom

  • Most of the stone for the interior seems to have been quarried immediately to the south of the construction site.
  • The smooth exterior of the pyramid, however, was made of a fine grade of white limestone that was quarried from the other side of the Nile River.
  • The work of quarrying, moving, setting, and sculpting the huge amount of stone used to build the pyramids might have been accomplished by several thousand skilled workers and unskilled laborers.

• Neolithic Monuments

  • These stones, so-called because they appear blue when they become wet, were quarried approximately 150 miles away in the Prescelli Mountains in southwest Wales.
  • Even more impressive, the quarrying and transport of the stones took place without the aid of the wheel, requiring a sophisticated method of transport and construction involving felled trees and earthen mounds.
  • The larger Sarcen stones, which form the post-and-lintel ring and the free-standing trilithons, were quarried approximately 25 miles to the north of Salisbury Plain.

• Colossal Heads of the Olmec

  • The huge basalt rocks for the large works of sculpture were quarried at distant sites and transported to Olmec centers such as San Lorenzo and La Venta.

• Cluny

  • Until 1813, the abbey was used as a stone quarry, ransacked for material to build houses in the town.

• The Justinian Code

  • It was "received" or imitated as private law and its public law content was quarried for arguments by both secular and ecclesiastical authorities.

• The Fossil Record and the Evolution of the Modern Horse

  • The first equid fossil was found in the gypsum quarries in Montmartre, Paris in the 1820s.

• Tiwanaku and Wari

  • The quarries, from which the stone blocks used in the construction of structures at Tiwanaku came, lie at significant distances from this site, which has led scholars to speculate on how they could have been moved.