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	a. buildings: i. An outside view of a long house. The sod on the roof is a welcome and needed thing, for insulation, fire control, and for stability, the weave of the plants makes the roof stronger, so when the dragon of the North Sea starts blowing and less well built houses roofs blow off, in a long house that is not a problem. Or when a huge blizzard blows up and dumps 10 or more feet of snow. The several feet of sod and the moss and such on top act as a weight cushion, not crushing the structure below but helping to support the structure. Plus adding to the heating factor since the heat dynamic then makes the house underground giving the inside a cave like heat pattern. Which means the inside will not drop below 65 degrees. Making it easier to warm the place with a smaller fire. Genius in engineering design. ii. Another view of the inside of a long house. iii. Awesome thing about the long house, there are no ends to what it can do and accomplish, a communal fire in the middle of the floor here illustrates the pure practical application of heating even under the harshest of conditions for a family, single or a large conglomeration of family. The long house only lacks a large measure of privacy, walls and permanent separations are not functional in a long house. The area needs to be kept fairly well open all the time, for ventilation, heat distribution, and safety. iv. Sleeping quarters, and children’s beds. v. A loom in one corner of a long house. To show that in a long house there was places for everything to happen, sometimes in long winters where snow and ice make any activity outside impossible, you have to still live and conduct the activities of daily life. So since the activities of daily life are still of primary need. You have to have room for any and all life to happen inside the house. vi. A drawing of what life could have looked like in a long house. Again a marvel of engineering simplicity, this is a design that is so multi functional that this was home to millions of Europeans from not too long ago until an unknown amount of time back. I have not been able to find a record of when the long house was built, but it could easily date back to the end of the last ice age. The construction is extremely functional and intensely strong.
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