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Reconstruction of a pit-house in Chotěbuz, Czechia. A pit-house (or pit house, pithouse) is a house built in the ground and used for shelter. [1] Besides providing shelter from the most extreme of weather conditions, this type of earth shelter may also be used to store food (just like a pantry, a larder, or a root cellar) and for cultural activities like the telling of stories, dancing ...
Dugout home near Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 Coober Pedy dugout, Australia. A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pit-house or earth lodge, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground.
A reconstruction of a pit-house type dwelling constructed by pre-historic man attributed to Cro-Magnon with mammoth bones. Reconstruction based on the example of Mezhirich, upper paleolitic site. Exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan.
In real estate's Old World Order -- back when homes appreciated in value hourly -- it used to be that the best time to pick up a bargain in a ski vacation home was when all the skiers had gone ...
Great houses – Generally built on flat plains throughout the Southwest, the great house-style Pueblo dwelling sat independent of cliffs. Pit houses – Most of the populations of the Southwest lived in pit houses, carefully dug rectangular or circular depressions in the earth with wattle and daub adobe walls supported by log sized corner posts.
6 Pit-house#Mammoth bone dwellings. 1 comment. 7 External links modified (January 2018) 1 comment. 8 Excavation procedure? 1 comment. Toggle the table of contents ...
The Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District is a 158-acre (64 ha) historic district in Yellowstone National Park comprising the administrative center for the park. It is composed of two major parts: Fort Yellowstone, the military administrative center between 1886 and 1918, and now a National Historic Landmark, and a concessions district which provides food, shopping, services, and lodging for ...
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