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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 108. Chapters: AASHO Road Test, Artificial stone, Asperity (geotechnical engineering), Asphalt concrete, California bearing ratio, Cantera (stone), Cariphalte, Cement tile, Chipseal, Cobblestone, Concrete mixer, Construction aggregate, Crazy paving, Crumb rubber, Crushed stone, Decomposed granite, Dimension stone, Flagstone, Floor medallions, Free floating screed, Full depth recycling, Glassphalt, Grating, Gravel, Hardscape, Hard landscape materials, History of road transport, Hoggin, Macadam, Megatexture (roads), Mosaic, Opus spicatum, Pavement (architecture), Paver (flooring), Paver (vehicle), Permeable paving, Pietra dura, Portuguese pavement, R.S. Blome Granitoid Pavement in Grand Forks, Road metal, Road surface, Road surface marking, Roman concrete, Rubberized asphalt, Rubber mulch, Saltillo tile, Sampietrini, Senado Square, Sett (paving), Shell pavement design method, Sidewalk, Silex, Slate, Soil cement, Sorel cement, Stone mastic asphalt, Structural road design, Structural Soil, Subbase (pavement), Subgrade, Tarmac, Types of road, Walkway. Excerpt: Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It may be a technique of decorative art, an aspect of interior decoration, or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral. Small pieces, mostly roughly square, of stone or glass of different colors, known as tesserae, (diminutive tessellae), are used to create a pattern or picture. Ancient Greek mosaic, a deer hunt, detail from the mosaic floor, signed "Gnosis created" (" ") in the House of the Abduction of Helen at Pella, late 4th century BC, Pella Archaeological Museum. Roman mosaic of Ulysses, from Carthage. Now in the Bardo Museum, Tunisia Cave canem mosaics ('Beware of the dog') were a popular motif for the thresholds of Roman villas A small part of The Great Pavement, a Roman mosaic laid in AD 325 at Woodchester, Gloucestershire, England. The mosaic of The Beauty of Durres, late 5th century BC. Now in the National Historical Museum in Tirana Roman mosaic found at Calleva Atrebatum in the Roman province of BritanniaThe earliest known examples of mosaics made of different materials were found at a temple building in Abra, Mesopotamia, and are dated to the second half of 3rd millennium BC. They consist of pieces of colored stones, shells and ivory. Excavations at Susa and Chogha Zanbil show evidence of the first glazed tiles, dating from around 1500 BC. However, mosaic patterns were not used until the times of Sassanid Empire and Roman influence. Mosaics of the 4th century BC are found in the Macedonian palace-city of Aegae, and the 4th-century BC mosaic of The Beauty of Durres discovered in Durres, Albania in 1916, is an early figural example; the Greek figural style was mostly formed in the 3rd century BC. Mythological subjects, or scenes of hunting or other pursuits of the wealthy, were popular as the centrepieces of a larger geometric design, with strongly emphasized borders. Pliny the Elder mentions the artist Sosus o
