Masonry
Stone shaping and construction techniques for building durable structures, walls, and tombs.
Core metadata
- ID: masonry
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -9600 (century)
- Region: Upper Mesopotamia / southeastern Anatolia; later multiple regions
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Aqueduct Siphons & Lead Pipes (aqueduct_siphons_lead_pipes)
- Arches and Domes (arches_domes)
- Blast Furnace (blast_furnace)
- Canal Networks (canal_networks)
- Classical Sculpture (classical_sculpture)
- Concentric Castles (concentric_castles)
- Classical Monumental Construction (construction)
- Dams and Reservoirs (dams_and_reservoirs)
- Defensive Watchtowers (defensive_watchtowers)
- Early Fortifications (early_fortifications)
- Fortified Town Planning (fortified_town_planning)
- Geometry (geometry)
- Glass Window Panes (glass_window_panes)
- Gothic Architecture (gothic_architecture)
- Granaries (granaries)
- Guild Halls & Trade Centers (guild_halls_trade_centers)
- Irrigation Sluice Gates (irrigation_sluice_gates)
- Kiln-Fired Roof Tiles (kiln_fired_roof_tiles)
- Lighthouses (lighthouses)
- Lime Mortar Engineering (lime_mortar_engineering)
- Machicolations (machicolations)
- Megalithic Construction (megalithic_construction)
- Mosaic Art (mosaic_art)
- Olive & Grape Press (olive_press_grape_press)
- Public Theater Infrastructure (public_theater_infrastructure)
- Rainwater Harvesting (rainwater_harvesting)
- Roads (roads)
- Septic Tank Systems (septic_tank_systems)
- Sewers and Drainage (sewers_and_drainage)
- Stone-Paved Courtyards (stone_paved_courtyards)
- Terraced Hillside Farming (terraced_hillside_farming)
- Urban Fire Codes (urban_fire_codes)
- Wells & Cisterns (wells_and_cisterns)
Fields
Field lanes
- Civil Engineering & Built Environment: Foundations & Surveying
Node sources
- Decision 42 COM 8B.34: Gobekli Tepe (Turkey) (UNESCO World Heritage Centre, 2018, official_agency) • Supports: node, maturity
- Masonry (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, generic_overview) • Supports: node, edge
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 2
- Average edge confidence: 73%
- Prerequisite sources: 2
- textbook: 2
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Stone Tools (advanced_stone_tools) | enabling | 70% | textbook | Masonry stone shaping and dressing use stone-working tools such as hammers, chisels, and gouges; advanced stone tools enable shaped-stone construction without being masonry itself. |
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| Mining (mining) | enabling | 76% | textbook | Masonry begins with extractive materials such as stone, clay, sand, and gravel, commonly mined from surface pits or quarries; extraction enables reliable material supply. |
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