An ancient building technique where rubble, stones, and mortar are interwoven together to form solid structural walls.
From Greek emplektos (interwoven) + -on (noun suffix). The term appears in classical architectural texts describing Roman and Greek construction methods.
Emplecon was the ancient world's answer to concrete—Roman builders would pack rubble and stones between two outer walls in a deliberate interwoven pattern, creating structures that outlasted their builders by centuries because the compression strengthened everything over time.
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