Fired Bricks & Early Kilns
Manufacturing durable building bricks from clay by firing them in kilns, allowing for larger and more complex buildings.
Core metadata
- ID: fired_bricks_early_kilns
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -10000 (millennium)
- Region: Global / multiple regions
- Review status: structurally_validated
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Bread Ovens (bread_ovens)
- Clay Pipe Drainage (clay_pipe_drainage)
- Kiln-Fired Roof Tiles (kiln_fired_roof_tiles)
- Lime Mortar Engineering (lime_mortar_engineering)
- Portland Cement (portland_cement)
- Urbanization (urbanization)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Early pottery at 20,000 years ago in Xianrendong Cave, China (Science / PubMed, 2012, primary_paper) • Supports: edge, node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 2
- Average edge confidence: 68%
- Prerequisite sources: 1
- expert_inference: 2
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pottery (pottery) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Pottery provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
|
| Mud Brick (Sun-Dried) (mud_brick_sun_dried) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Mud Brick (Sun-Dried) provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
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