When did people start building houses? Detailed answer

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When did people start building houses?

Home is simply the place where a person lives, and at first, like other living beings, he sought shelter wherever he could. People found a good sheltered place and considered it "home". Then he began to improve his dwelling in a variety of ways. We do not know what appeared first, but the very first houses were caves and structures in the trees.

In warm regions, primitive people could live in trees. They bent the branches into a kind of frame, after which they were tied or woven. Then they made the roof out of tufts of grass stacked on top of each other. In such a house, a person was protected from the sun, rain, floods and wild animals that could not climb trees.

But for a cold climate, such a house was an unsuitable dwelling. Therefore, people used the caves, building fires in front of the entrance. Probably, the first skills of building from stone were obtained by building a wall from loose stones in front of the entrance to the cave. When man made a cave by digging a hole in a hillside, that was the next step.

The next step was the search for a natural hole in the ground, which was then lined with stones around the edges. In different parts of the world, they began to build houses that were most suitable for a given climate in their design. The first quadrangular house in Europe (instead of a round one) was a structure with pillars at the corners; the free space between the pillars was filled with intertwined trunks of young trees.

Author: Likum A.

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