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The Diversity Of Early African Architecture/Ruins Thread

<n>Al-Tahla Floating Islands</n> of the <n>Ma'dan</n> people in Iraq. Photo by <n>Esme Allen</n>.

A photograph of <n>Dogon people</n> and <n>Dogon architecture</n> by <n>Huib Blom</n>.

<n>Robert Smithson</n>'s land art <n>Broken Circle/Spiral Hill</n> (1971), photographed by the artist in Emmen.

From the series <n>Joint Photographic Survey</n> (2014) by artist <n>Adam Ryder</n>.

A <n>Jōmon figurine</n> from the 1959 book 'Jomon clay figurines' by <n>Kinokuniya Shoten</n>.

The <n>Meidum Pyramid</n> in Egypt, from the 1955 book 'Egypt' by photographer <n>Eugen Kusch</n>.

A tree house of the <n>Koiari people</n> in Papua New Guinea, photographed by <n>J. W. Lindt</n> in 1887.

A rock-cut dwelling in <n>Cappadocia</n>, <n>Turkey</n>. Photo by <n>Marc Riboud</n>.