The phrase "pit house" is a grammatically correct and commonly used term in written English.
It refers to a house or dwelling that is partially or fully built into the ground or a pit. Example: The ancient Pueblo Indians built their homes in the southwestern United States using materials such as adobe and stone to construct sturdy pit houses that provided insulation from the extreme desert temperatures.
They hand-truss each pair of turkey legs, too, before hanging the dressed bird in its pit house berth.
Visitors took side trips to the smoke-shrouded pit house where pigs lay splayed and sauce-puddled.
These decorative elements had a performative purpose; vessels like this one would have been placed on the hearth at the center of a type of Jomon house, a pit house, creating a kind of shadow theater on the walls.
This article presents the results of starch grain and phytolith residue analyses from 14 ceramic fragments recovered in two domestic cooking structures from a southern proto-Jê pit house at the Bonin site (Urubici, Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil) dating to 1300 1439 and 1297 1414 cal yr.
Progressing from a simple pit house through aboveground homes, these people moved out onto the plateau regions of what are now Arizona and New Mexico and built remarkable multistoried structures, some such as Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico sheltering hundreds of families in more than 400 rooms.
After a dusty ramble, and some hide-and-seek with the children in a replica Okanagan pit house — a semi-subterranean dwelling with a domed earth roof — we crossed the parking lot to the Nk'Mip (pronounced IN-ka-meep) winery next door, also owned by the tribe.
Villages continued to consist of collections of pit houses, which had become slightly better-reinforced.
The profile on the plateau at Luis Carlos is in an area rich with pit houses and mounds.
It revealed a grave, pit houses and part of a building.Southern Utah is one of the archaeologically richest parts of America.
The circular shape recalls the round pit houses of the prehistoric Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) from whom the Pueblo tribes are thought to have descended.
The remnants of Hohokam canals and pit houses are a potent reminder of ecological collapse; no other American city sits atop such an eloquent allegory.
