They live without any modern comforts in simple dwellings, hunt wild animals and sit with their unburied dead in a "Field of Leaving".
Sometimes an outing includes a great lunch in a rural Chinese village, where it is quiet enough in the narrow streets to hear the slap of mah-jongg tiles filtering from simple dwellings.
In an announcement on Wednesday, Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the new research showed that "the settlement was much larger than expected" and included clay floors of simple dwellings.
During the summer, farmers moved to simple dwellings on summer farms (fäbodar) to graze the animals in the forest (Figure 1).
These simple dwellings have been less meticulously restored than the sumptuous structures in the center, but throughout, there are few glimpses of the modern.
The simple dwellings, rustic pathways, and stone fences enhance the tale's timeless aspect and suggest an unchanging countryside and its way of life.
MacDonald points out that Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is the first of Potter's books to depict a countryside of simple dwellings, pathways, stone fences, and the timeless, unchanging ways of rural life.
The simple dwellings have either collapsed or been swept away by landslides, taking with them not only those who were inside -- mainly children and the elderly as those of working age were in the fields - but food supplies that are typically kept within homes".
Government backhoes came in and plowed through Mr. Momoh's simple wooden dwelling and some 500 like it last Saturday, instantly making homeless perhaps 10,000 of Lagos's poorest residents and destroying a decades-old slum, Badia East.
The simple brick dwelling that the family share in the community of Hai Ishlag may not look much.
