Archaeologists rarely expect clarity when surveying the ocean floor, since water tends to erase context rather than preserve ...

A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to mankind, used over millennia to construct ...

Far off the coast of Brittany, a line of stone blocks lies hidden beneath the Atlantic, preserved where dry land once met the ...

"Stone has something to it," he says. "It comes off the land. It's part of the land." These are normally solitary thoughts: Dry walling is a lonely sort of job. Some of the best stone craftsmen and ...

An autonomous robot with a large gripper can transform a pile of boulders into huge stone walls without mortar – learning on its own how to place each irregularly-shaped stone as the next building ...

DUMMERSTON — The Dummerston Historical Society will offer a special program during its quarterly meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 18. Dan Snow, a dry stone wall builders and master craftsman from ...

>> IF THERE IS ONE THING THAT NEW ENGLAND IS GOOD AT GROWING, IT'S ROCKS. AND IF THOSE ROCKS ARE LUCKY, THEY JUST MIGHT TURN INTO STONES. >> THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A ROCK AND A STONE IS THAT A ROCK IS ...

Among the colorful troupes of Catalan musicians, dancers, and imaginary figures at the Folklife Festival, one man worked unaccompanied in a corner of the National Mall. As the sole representative of ...

Stone is “making a comeback” in the building industry after years of being “forgotten”, said the BBC. With clear benefits to the environment, such as a lower carbon footprint than other traditional ...