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The intersection of archaeology, anthropology; material culture; ergonomics, & everyday life. The hammock has received relatively little study, largely because organic fibers, leather, & cordage rarely survive
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Most of what we know about the hammocks invention comes from indirect evidence. Preserved cordage, textile technology, ethnographic analogy, iconography, and exceptional preservation in caves and dry environments. Most scholars do not date the hammock to the PaleolithicThere is…
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Boskednan stone circle holds folklore. That the 9 stones were once maidens, who were turned to stone. As possible punishments
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Boskednan Stone Circle, is a neolithic stone circleIt is also known as the Nine Maidens of Boskednan. A prehistoric monument situated in Cornwall, England. It is located on a moorlandProviding expansive views of surrounding countryside. The area is rich in archaeological…
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Lets frame pc, cc, & lcb not as niche trades but living extensions of neolithic architecture. Essential to public safety, sustainability & cultural identity
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Here’s an argument grounded in archaeological evidence that modern-day pest control, chimney cleaning, and log cabin construction are continuations of neolithic architecture. 1: Grain bins in the towers at Jericho were protection from pests; 2: 9,000 years ago at Çatalhöyük, there…
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When did log cabins originate?
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > We know log cabins originated during the iron ages. Around 3500 years ago. In Russia, Scandanavia, and eastern Europe. Though surely someone would have built earlier. What did you think? Around 30 BC a text called De Architectura was written describing…
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Rope technologies must have increased around 5000 BC. Because humans built ancient stone monuments known as megaliths, mega meaning “big”, and lith meaning “stone”. Many were erected through western Europe at this time
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Most megaliths were not intended to enclose space but to mark a particular location, and to be seen from a great distance They have their own special terms, as follows:Menhirs: Single stones standing uprightDolmens: Several upright stones supporting horizontal stone slabsHenges:…
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The ancient Egyptians built, for their rulers, more than 80 pyramids along the banks of the Nile, near modern day Cairo. It was an afterlife
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > After the neolithic period, from around 2700 to 1640 BC. Ancient pyramids were designed, and built, according to three forms: Step pyramid, bent pyramid, and straight sided pyramid (the most common) Limestone for the pyramids was quarried on the east bank…
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Belonging universal, semi subterranean huts are also known as the earth lodges, pit houses, dugouts, or winterhouses
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Called semi-subterranean, archaeologists and anthropologists define pit houses as any non-contiguous building, with floors lower than the ground surface Dugouts or ssth can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, or dug into a hillsideThey…
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A Neolithic Predynastic City Where Egyptian Urbanism Took Shape: Hierakonpolis
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Hierakonpolis—ancient Nekhen, the “City of the Falcon” is one of the most important prehistoric archaeological landscapes in Egypt. It is not simply a cemetery, temple or ruined city. It is an unusually complete landscape of houses, workshops, breweries, cemeteries,…
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Protected: known communal, cult or abnormally large buildings from the neolithic time period
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