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hand drawn stone houses in different shapes and sizes, with the roof made out of rocks

History of Architecture begins in the Neolithic period, roughly 10,000 years ago or at the time when people stopped living in cages and began constructing homes. Architecture is the desire to construct an architectural artefact fuelled by the desire to create more than just beauty but comfort and elegance. The Architecture is derived from the […]

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an image of a thatched roof structure with labeled parts labelled in the diagram below

Elements of a Neolithic roundhouse. The main frame of the roundhouse would have been made of upright timbers, which were interwoven with coppiced wood - usually hazel, oak, ash or pollarded willow - to make wattle walls. This was then covered with a daub made from clay, soil, straw and animal manure that would weatherproof the house. The roof was constructed from large timbers and densely thatched. All of the domestic life would have occurred within the roundhouse.

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a painting of a man sitting in front of a hut

Imagine it! A 'window to the past' where kids can discover what it was like to live in Texas hundreds, even thousands of years ago! Compare modern houses, food, and hunting techniques with those used by Native 'Texans' long ago.

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a drawing of a teepee sitting on top of dry ground with sticks sticking out of it

Lepenski Vir is the name of the great whirlpool in the middle of Djerdap, the Iron Gates Gorge, and the nearby horseshoe shaped shelf between the right bank of the Danube and the steep cliffs of the Koršo hills. Lepenski Vir is a Mesolithic site - that means middle stone age, in this case 8 000 years before the present, after the ice had begun to melt from the glaciers which covered so much of the Northern Hemisphere. It is an open air site, not a rock shelter. It is noted for the…

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