Comment by ElevenLathe
Comment by ElevenLathe 3 months ago
It was also impossible to make things out of fiberglass, but hand-carved stone was actually available.
Comment by ElevenLathe 3 months ago
It was also impossible to make things out of fiberglass, but hand-carved stone was actually available.
Not really, that's the resource that disappeared faster than anything, being the simplest to get. Mediterranean forests have never been particularly dense, already the Greeks were moving lots of wood on the sea from the best locations. Stone was easier to get from the areas around Rome.
So was non-permanent building materials such as wood, to be fair.