Pit house

How Do You Build a Pit House? Construction of a pit house begins by excavating a pit into the earth, from a few centimeters to 1.5 meters (a few inches to five feet) deep. Pit houses vary in plan, from round to oval to square to rectangular. The excavated pit floors vary from flat to bowl-shaped; they can include prepared floors or not. Above the pit is a superstructure that might consist of low earthen walls built from the excavated soil; stone foundations with brush walls; or posts with wattle and daub chinking. The roof of a pit house is generally flat and made of brush, thatch, or planks, and entry to the deepest houses was gained by way of a ladder through a hole in the roof. A central hearth provided light and warmth; in some pit houses, a ground surface air hole would have brought in ventilation and an additional hole in the roof would have allowed smoke to escape. Pit houses were warm in winter and cool in summer; experimental archaeology has proven that they are quite comfortable year round because the earth acts as an insulating blanket. However, they only last for a few seasons and after at most ten years, a pit house would have to be abandoned: many abandoned pithouses were used as cemeteries. Who Uses Pit Houses? In 1987, Patricia Gilman published a summary of ethnographic work conducted on historically-documented societies who used pit houses around the world. She reported that there were 84 groups in the ethnographic documentation who used semi-subterranean ...

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Native American Indian Pit House Framework Native Indian Pit House The Pit House was a typical structure used as a shelter or house style that was built by many tribes of the Plateau cultural group who made them their winter homes, as did a few of the Californian tribes. The Pit House roof was constructed over an underground hole (hence the name Pit House) with a wooden log framework that was covered with earth. Learn about the structure and the interior of the Pit House with pictures and images together with facts and information about the tribes who used them, including the Nez Perce, . Pit House Definition What does the term Pit House mean? Definition: A Pit House was a type of semi subterranean dwelling, built half below the surface of the ground in a deep hole or pit, made with a log frame with the walls and roof being covered with grass, sticks, bark, brush that was covered with earth. This type of winter shelter was used by many tribes of the Plateau cultural group and also some Californian tribes. How was a Pit House built? The process, method and materials used to build a Plateau Pit House were as follows: • The building of a Pit House was planned well in advance and required cooperation for collecting the timber to build the framework of poles • The Pithouse were built in the spring when the ground was soft, making it easier to dig the pit. Flattened stone digging tools were used to dig • The pit was dug to a depth of up to 15 feet. The size of the pit house rang...

Allen Denoyer, Archaeology Southwest, and Gary Owens, Huhugam Ki Museum, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (January 16, 2018)—In fall 2017, at Museum Director Gary Owens’s invitation, Allen Denoyer joined Gary’s team at the This house is round in plan view. Its construction is more like that of a wickiup. Allen: The replica dwelling pictured above was built a few years back. Because it just did not look right according to the community’s traditions, the museum planned to tear it down and reuse some of the materials to build a more accurate-looking version. Gary: The house had been built by others, to the best of their ability, but what we eventually wanted to see was something that made us think, “Yeah, that’s what they described to me when I was little.” In all, we estimated about 18 hours of digging and sifting to dig about 10–14” down. Community members did the excavation, which gave them a chance to see what was really in that mound of dirt—their past. This photo shows visitors at a historic O’odham village looking at a structure very similar to what we built. Allen: Gary and his crew dismantled the existing house and stockpiled its construction elements for use on the new house. They began excavation of the house pit on August 26. The excavated soil was loaded with ancient artifacts and modern trash, including glass and nails. The crew screened the dirt and collected the artifacts for later analysis. There are several reasons to dig a house pit. First, it supp...

Appearance and location A quiggly hole appears as a circular depression in the ground, the remnants of a former log-roofed pithouse (locally named a quiggly towns, some with hundreds of holes indicating a potential population of thousands. Some of these holes were residential for single family or larger groups, while some may have been storage only. Quiggly towns are typically located where solar exposure, water supply, and access to fish, game and gatherable foodstuffs are favorable. Quiggly towns and smaller groups of quiggly holes are common features of the landscape in certain areas of southern Hudson's Bay Flats is the old location of a site called Description This type of structure was used for storage as well as housing and cooking, and may have had its origins as an expansion of the concept of a quiggly usually only means the archaeological remains, not an active underground house, if one is being spoken of in a story or a history. Similar structures are used in the Si7xten in Lillooet, 1996 A reconstruction of an underground house can be seen by the public near the si7xten ( SHIH-stn) in the si7xten and the rest of his notes on that people and from interviews with a si7xten was built, also owed to his knowledge of underground houses in the Thompson and si7xten as built may not exactly resemble those used by the Stʼatʼimc, as those with the knowledge of how they were built died years before there was interest in restoring one. Si7xten in Lillooet, 1996 Quiggly town...

Pit-houses were built in many parts of northern Europe between the 5th and 12th centuries AD. In Germany they are known as Grubenhäuser, and in the United Kingdom, they are also known as grubhuts, grubhouses or sunken featured buildings. Grubenhäuser are often understood to have been domestic dwellings. However, their use may have varied, especially on a regional basis. In Western Europe their small size and the fact that they can be found near other buildings and associated finds of There are reconstructions of pit-houses in several open-air museums, e.g. in the Throughout the inland Pacific Northwest, indigenous people were nomadic during the summer and gathered resources at different spots according to the season and tradition, but overwintered in permanent semi-subterranean pit houses at lower elevations. The winter was often the only time families saw others—even if they were from the same village and tribe—and congregated in any numbers before the arrival of In the northwestern Great Plains and the Plateau region located nearby, climate changes and extreme temperature and weather conditions made it difficult to live year-round. Hot summers led to the building of simple tent-like structures that were portable and could be packed up to move. For cold winter months, pit-houses provided the warm, protected shelter necessary for survival. A cross-cultural Ethnographic Atlas All but six of the 82 societies live above 32° north latitude, and four of the six cases in this sa...

Answering Archaeology Questions: Pithouse Architecture Posted on March 9, 2017 Homer Thiel explores pithouse architecture and how the most common prehistoric dwellings in southern Arizona changed over time. The illustration at the top is by Robert Ciaccio. For several thousand years people have been constructing pithouses in the Sonoran Desert. Desert Archaeology employees are frequently asked “What is a pithouse?” and “How were they built?” Pithouses, also called pit structures, were the most common form of Native American dwelling found in the Sonoran Desert from at least 4,000 years ago into the 1400s. The main attribute of pithouse architecture is a pit dug into the ground that forms the foundation of the house. Why dig a pit? Earth has insulating qualities and the sunken houses may have been warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer than surface structures. Archaeologists usually find these pits in backhoe trenches or by stripping away overburden. In either case, the pits are identified by the presence of charcoal-stained earth, by wall and floor plaster, or by the presence of trash. Archaeologists excavate pithouses to get samples of artifacts, animal bones, and plant remains and to study the house’s architectural attributes. The recovered artifacts can date the house and tell what types of activities took place inside it, while animal bones and plant material can reveal the diet of its occupants and the local environment surrounding it. Pithouses were used for d...