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Pit-house
A pit-house (or pithouse) is a building that is partly dug into the ground, and covered by a roof.〔("Pit house" in the online Merriam Webster's Dictionary )〕 Besides providing shelter from extremes of weather, these structures may also be used to store food and for cultural activities like the telling of stories, dancing, singing and celebrations. General dictionaries also describe a pithouse as a ''dugout''〔Harris, C. M. (1998). "Dugout". ''American architecture: An illustrated encyclopedia'' (p. 104). New York: W.W. Norton.〕 and has similarities to a ''half-dugout''.〔Whitney, W. D. (1889). "Dugout" def. 2. ''The Century dictionary: An encyclopedic lexicon of the English language'' (Vol. 3, p. 1793). New York: The Century Co.〕
In archaeology, pit-houses are frequently termed a sunken featured building (SFB)〔Hidden Treasure Fact Files By Dr Neil Faulkner Last updated 2011-02-17 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/archaeology/fact_files_08.shtml accessed 2/14/2013〕〔Crabtree, Pam J.. Medieval archaeology: an encyclopedia. New York: Garland Pub., 2001. 533. ISBN 0815312865〕 and occasionally (grub-)hut〔G.L. Brook Symposium, C., & Kay, C. (2000). ''Lexicology, semantics, and lexicography: Selected papers from the fourth G.L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998''. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins.〕 or grubhouse after the German name ''Grubenhaus''〔Hourihane, C., Strickland, D. H., & Simonetta, M. (n.d.). Anglo-Saxon Architecture. In ''The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture'' (Vol. 2, p. 80). (2012) New York, NY. ISBN 9780195395365〕 and are found in numerous cultures around the world. These include: the people of the American Southwest, including the ancestral Pueblo, the ancient Fremont and Mogollon cultures, the Cherokee, the Inuit, the people of the Plateau, and archaic residents of Wyoming (Smith 2003) in North America; Archaic residents of the Lake Titicaca Basin (Craig 2005) in South America; Anglo-Saxons in Europe; and the Jōmon people in Japan. Anglo-Saxon pit-houses may have actually represented buildings for other functions than just dwellings.
Usually, all that remains of the ancient pit-house is a dug out hollow in the ground and any postholes used to support the roof. In the nineteenth century, it was believed that most prehistoric peoples lived in pit-houses although it has since been proved that many of the features thought of as houses were in fact food storage pits or served another purpose.
==Mammoth bone dwellings==
The oldest pit dwellings were discovered in Mezhyrich, Central Ukraine. Dating back 15,000 years to the Upper Paleolithic age, the houses were made of mammoth bones. The base is circular or oval in shape, 12 to 14 feet in diameter (4–6 m), with limb bones used for walls and lighter, flat bones used for the roof. Presumably, animal hide was stretched around the exterior for insulation. Each dwelling had a hearth. Groups of houses were arranged around a base camp layout, occupied by families or relatives for weeks or months.〔Hoffecker, John ''A Prehistory of the North: Human Settlement of the Higher Latitudes'' Rutgers, 2005, ISBN 0-8135-3468-2|url=()〕
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