: how did people in the past ensure that a building/structure will be structurally sound?

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: how did people in the past ensure that a building/structure will be structurally sound?

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Answer 1

It was the equivalent of a dad tugging on the ropes to something tied to their car and saying “that ain’t going anywhere”

I’ll add that a lot of joining methods were developed before modern hardware, so interlocking was used out of necessity. Small sample: the dovetail was invented before the nail was practical to use.