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Preservation

Shelters

Giorgio Buccellati – August 2010

A chapter of the digital monograph: Site conservation




NOTE: on this topic, cf. also the dedicated topical book on “CONSERVATION”.

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Available choices

Reburial, etc.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

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Broad base and localized shelters

When shelters are treated in the literature, it is generally understood that they are intended to roof an entire structure (see, e.g., Agnew 2001, Palumbo 2001). But a qualification is needed once we introduce the alternative possibility of sheltering the individual components and not the whole of which these components are part.

I use the term “broad base” to refer to the large roofing projects.

I use instead the term “localized shelters” to refer to the system I developed in Mozan, where each wall is protected individually.

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