This culture was characterized by a curious world of terramare, habitations built on pilings and protected by a vallum, or defensive wall, which screened them from floods (in the flat countryside, seasonal rains were violent).
With sites such as Danebury where there is no modern habitation or built environment, extensive excavations can be undertaken to establish the general layout.
At "the place where the river narrowed" (Quebec), they built a "habitation" (i.e., a fur-trading fort, or factory) to control the great river and to be the entrepôt of its fur trade.
Seeking shelter, humans learned lessons from swallows and bees built their habitations.
HOME A listing last Thursday with an article about nests built for human habitation misstated the Web address for Jayson Fann, who builds such nests.
Substantial implications result from this analysis related to the identification of recurrent behaviors in shellmound formation and growth, prehistoric alteration and destruction of habitation sites, development of a built environment, and continuity in mound building as an expression of group identity.
Neither one of the two CMUs were built for long-term habitation.
This work revealed that new wells had been built throughout the period of habitation.
Most of them are pastel or candy-colored and all appear recently built, with no sign of human habitation.
The achievements built up over 1,000 years of human habitation on this windy, chilly island are at risk now, owing to the Viking exuberance that many had chosen to identify as the engine of the Icelandic miracle, as the reason why in half a century Iceland passed from being the poorest country in Europe to one of the richest, with zero unemployment.
