Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

John Vivian’s book Building Stone Walls expands on the subject of this article and also discusses how to quarry rock and build stairs, stiles, gates, and retaining walls. Vivian is also the ...

Stone retaining walls add elegance to your lawn while stabilizing sloped terrain. If you're worried about the cost, here's ...

Each stone thread being pulled is also a loss of biodiversity, because each wall is a linear rock desert in an otherwise moist world. Each is a dryland analogous to a nearby wetland.

Retaining walls can level a sloped yard, prevent erosion and look beautiful! Check out these distinctive retaining wall ideas ...

Stone walls are not just rows of rocks. New Englanders built them for a variety of reasons. ... They showed S-shaped layers, or strata, in the rock, ...

A blast shield to protect a lunar base from landing and launching rockets could be built in just three months. An autonomous, robotic hydraulic excavator could build a dry stone wall to act as a ...

The stone wall beside the Gov. Edward Dudley Mansion in Wilmington may date back to the 1700s. Deeds show that the wall was already standing by 1837 and was likely built to hold back the bluff.