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Description The following is the author's description of the photograph quoted directly from the photograph's Flickr page.
"Technology in rural Afghanistan is amazing, I really enjoy seeing all the things people are able to make out here without complex tools. I got to watch the transformation of a pile of mud and straw into a large, beautiful patio warming stove.

The mud showed up in a taxi -- that's right, a taxi. It is general, run-of-the-mill mud. Straw is mixed into and pounded with feet.

The mud is stomped out into layers.

Mud layers are made into a dome. Only three tools were used to make this, a clay half-dome, a wooden slab, and a knife. The clay half-dome goes inside the mud dome, and the wood slab is used to smack the outside of the mud.

The half dome is allowed to dry for a few days, and lifted to where it needs to go.

The front is cut out of the stove, and a fire lit inside to cure it. "
Date Taken on 2 November 2008
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originally posted to Flickr as Will the wonders never cease?

Author Todd Huffman
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Todd Huffman at https://www.flickr.com/photos/99287245@N00/3014840740. It was reviewed on 7 October 2009 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.
7 October 2009
Camera location34° 26′ 38.23″ N, 70° 23′ 43.46″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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