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pircado (de piedra)

English translation: dry (stone) wall


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Spanish term or phrase:pircado (de piedra)
English translation:dry (stone) wall
Entered by: John Milan
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18:56 Jun 1, 2011
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Science - Geology / Chile
Spanish term or phrase: pircado (de piedra)
In an executive summary of an environmental impact statement in the Atacama region of Chile:

"Existe un sitio consistente en una agrupación de estructuras arquitectónicas simples, construidas con pircados de piedra."

I have only reference to the word "pircado" in Chile and Argentina, so it may regionally specific.

¡Gracias!
John Milan
United States
Local time: 22:26
(stone) drywall
Explanation:
Muro de piedra en seco.

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Speaking about prehistoric constructions:

Brochs date from the Iron Age and are the tallest prehistoric structures in Britain. ... They were formed by two concentric, dry-stone walls, ...
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Scotland-History/Brochs...

Similar prehistoric dry walls were re- ported in the Sicilian cave sites ( Brochier et al. 1992, 83).
http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/mlekuz/Mlekuz_festschrift.pd...

Before 4000 BCE, chambered tombs of dry-wall masonry (stones laid ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=IFMohetegAcC&pg=PT5&lpg=PT5...

A dry wall is just a mortarless wall. Un picado solamente es un muro en seco.

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However they write it is the same thing.
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EleoE
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4 +3(stone) drywallEleoE
4stone and adobepatinba
3construidas con pircados de piedra > built with local stone
Deborah Lockett
Summary of reference entries provided
búsqueda google:chica nueva

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
stone and adobe


Explanation:
Pircas are also piles of stones making burial mounds.

Los muros de la iglesia están edificados mediante un sistema de "pirca" (o "apircado), es decir piedras rústicas unidas con argamasa de barro,(Wikipedia)

patinba
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31 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
(stone) drywall


Explanation:
Muro de piedra en seco.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2011-06-01 22:13:58 GMT)
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Speaking about prehistoric constructions:

Brochs date from the Iron Age and are the tallest prehistoric structures in Britain. ... They were formed by two concentric, dry-stone walls, ...
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Scotland-History/Brochs...

Similar prehistoric dry walls were re- ported in the Sicilian cave sites ( Brochier et al. 1992, 83).
http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/mlekuz/Mlekuz_festschrift.pd...

Before 4000 BCE, chambered tombs of dry-wall masonry (stones laid ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=IFMohetegAcC&pg=PT5&lpg=PT5...

A dry wall is just a mortarless wall. Un picado solamente es un muro en seco.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2011-06-01 22:15:28 GMT)
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However they write it is the same thing.

EleoE
Local time: 20:26
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian, Native in Serbo-CroatSerbo-Croat
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marina Soldati
8 mins
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agree  Christine Walsh
20 mins
  -> Thanks.

agree  chica nueva: pirca = Amér. Muro de piedra sin argamasa; pircar = Amér. Merid. Cercar un terreno con pircas (Oroz, Chile); pirca (dry-stone wall) = pared de piedra en seco (Norma)
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
construidas con pircados de piedra > built with local stone


Explanation:
reference:

Los recintos pircados del tambo
...
...de paredes de piedras de la zona (pircas)...
http://www.losandes.com.ar/notas/2000/12/3/sociedad-260519.a...

the builders may simply have gathered stones lying on the ground, left by natural processes such as glaciation and erosion.

Deborah Lockett
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Reference comments


6 hrs
Reference: búsqueda google:

Reference information:
http://www.google.cl/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=es&ie=UTF-...

(¿puedes encontrar lo mismo desde EEUU?)

chica nueva
New Zealand
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