Editing Adobe (section)

==Distribution==
Buildings made of sun-dried earth are common throughout the world (Middle East, Western Asia, North Africa, West Africa, South America, Southwestern North America, Southwestern and Eastern Europe.).<ref>Marchand, Trevor (2009). ''The Masons of Djenne''. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press</ref> Adobe had been in use by [[indigenous peoples of the Americas]] in the Southwestern United States, [[Mesoamerica]], and the [[Andes]] for several thousand years.<ref>{{cite book | last = Beck | first = Roger B. | author2 = Linda Black |author3=Larry S. Krieger |author4=Phillip C. Naylor |author5=Dahia Ibo Shabaka | title = World History: Patterns of Interaction | publisher = McDougal Littell | year = 1999 | location = Evanston, Ilinois | url =https://archive.org/details/mcdougallittellw00beck| url-access = registration | isbn = 0-395-87274-X }}</ref> [[Puebloan peoples]] built their adobe structures with handsful or basketsful of adobe, until the Spanish introduced them to making bricks. Adobe bricks were used in Spain from the [[Bronze Age#Periodization|Late Bronze]] and [[Iron Age]]s (eighth century BCE onwards).<ref>{{cite book|last= de Chazelles-Gazzal|first=Claire-Anne|title=Les maisons en terre de la Gaule méridionale|publisher=Éditions Monique Mergoil|year=1997|location=Montagnac, France|pages=49–57}}</ref> Its wide use can be attributed to its simplicity of design and manufacture, and economics.<ref>{{cite book|title=Natural hazards in El Salvador|last=Rose|first=William I.|author2=Julian J. Bommer|publisher=Geological Society of America|isbn=0-8137-2375-2|year=2004|page=299}}</ref>