Of the loam buildings, the wooden poles and the reeds represented the inflammable materials.
The walls of the round and rectangular buildings were simply founded on earth and were all built of loam.
Level 2 is a layer of brown-gray loam that extends across the island in a 30cm-thick layer from 15 to 45 cm below the surface.
The soil texture is silty clay loam with 29, 47, and 24% sand, silt and clay respectively, and illite is the dominant clay mineral.
Lentils are grown on a wide variety of soils from sandy loam to deep peaty soils.
In contrast, for sand and for loam soils, there is far more continuity and similarity in reptile species composition down the rainfall gradient.
Soils in most of the plains are sandy loam or clay loam in texture, with quality varying across the region but not very much.
The structures were built of loam and clustered in streetless neighbourhoods, which were separated from each other by alleys and courtyards.
