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	Stilt house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stilt houses or pile dwellings are houses raised on stilts over the surface of the soil or a body of water.
		In the Neolithic and Bronze Age, pile dwellings were common in the Alpine region.
		A lake dwelling is a house or other structure built over shallow waters, such as a lake or marsh, supported on piles or artificial mounds of earth or wood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pile_dwellings (341 words)

	PILE - LoveToKnow Article on PILE
		It also is applied to a large and lofty building, and specifically, to a stand of arms, " piled " in military fashion, and to the series of plates, galvanic" or " voltaic piles," in an electric battery.
		The modern " head and tail " of a coin was formerly " cross and pile," Fr.
		The common name of the disease of haemorrhoids (q.v.) or " piles " is probably an extension of this word, in the sense of mass, swelling, but may be referred to the Lat.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PI/PILE.htm (296 words)

	TERRAMARA - LoveToKnow Article on TERRAMARA
		A summary of early results as to these mounds was published by Munro (Lake Dwellings) in 1890, but scientific investigation really began only with the excavation of the terramara at Castellazzo di Fontanellato (province of Parma) in.
		The terramara, in spite of local differences, is of typical form; it is a settlement, trapezoidal in ~form, built upon piles on dry land~protected by an earthwork strengthened on the inside by butTresses, and encircled by a wide moat supplied with running water.
		Traces of burning which have been found render it probable that, when the refuse thrown down among the piles had filled the space, the settlement was burned and a new one built upon the remains.
	82.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TE/TERRAMARA.htm (655 words)

	Caves, Kitchen-Middings, Lake Stations, “Terremares,” Crannoges, Burghs, “Nurhags,” “Talayoti,” and “Truddhi.”
		The discovery of these piles excited general interest, an interest that was redoubled when similar discoveries revealed that all the lakes of Switzerland were dotted with stations that had been built long centuries before in the midst of the waters.
		The piles of the Stone age are from eleven to twelve inches in diameter; those of the later epochs are smaller.
		What chiefly distinguishes the Lagozza pile dwelling, however, is the absence of the bones, teeth, or horns of animals, and also of fish-hooks, harpoons, or nets, so that we must conclude that the inhabitants did not hunt or fish, that they did not breed domestic animals, and were probably vegetarians.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Prehistoric/00000014.htm (11639 words)

	Urnfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Swiss pile dwellings, the incised decoration was sometimes inlaid with tin foil.
		Pit dwellings are known as well, they might have served as cellars.
		On lakes of southern Germany and Switzerland, numerous pile dwellings were constructed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Urnfield (3042 words)

	From the Hut to the Pantheon (1887)
		Piles of wood, six to ten feet long, set from one to two or three feet apart, were driven perpendicularly into the ground, throughout the enclosed space, until the tops of all the piles were on a level with the top of the embankment.
		That is to say, the piles are not driven into the dry land but into the bottom of a shallow part of the lake; whereby the latter plays the part of a moat, and the ditch and parapet become superfluous.
		It is curious to compare with this the account of the wall and ditch, strengthened by piles of wood, which the Greeks of the Iliad constructed for the defence of their ships.
	aleph0.clarku.edu /huxley/UnColl/Rdetc/HUP.html (4602 words)

	Everyday Neolithic Life
		The remains of cattle and goats prevail in their débris, and, having regard to the climate and country about them, it seems probable that these beasts were sheltered in the buildings upon the piles in winter, and that fodder was stored for them.
		There were no cats in these lake dwellings ; no mice or rats had yet adapted themselves to human dwellings; the cluck of the hen was not as yet added to the sounds of human life, nor the domestic egg to its diet.
		All this we gather from the remains of the Swiss pile dwellings, and such was the character of the human life that spread over Europe, coming from the south and from the east with the forests as, 10,000 or 12,000 years ago, the reindeer and the Reindeer men passed away.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles32n/history-outline-33.shtml (1895 words)

	Delaware Department of Transportation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Four of the dwellings are two-story, center-passage, single-pile (one-room deep) plan houses dating from 1759 to circa 1840.
		In addition to the dwellings, a combination of agricultural outbuildings were also identified within the project area.
		An additional center-passage, single-pile dwelling with related outbuildings, the Henry K. Hazel House, was also found to be important historically, because of its stair-passage plan and Greek Revival architectural detailing.
	www.deldot.net /static/projects/archaeology/archives/DA06.htm (396 words)

	National Register Listings in Maryland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		A few mid-19th century two-story side hall/parlor an center hall/single-pile plan dwellings with Greek inspired exterior finishes survive within the district, but massive fires in 1888 and 1922 cleared the oldest section of town of its earliest structures.
		The town is well represented by a host of third quarter of the 19th century dwellings inspired by the range of romantic revival styles that swept the county before and after the Civil War.
		A concentration of modest two-story, one- or two-bay frame houses with side gables or gable-front orientations occurs along several streets on the east and west sides of the district, initially erected as tenant housing for workers in the city's manufacturing concerns.
	www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net /nr/NRHDDetail.asp?HDID=1467&RCOUNT=0&COUNTY=Worcester (782 words)

	ENGLISH VILLAGES, by P. H. Ditchfield
		His dwellings were no longer the caves and forests, for he made for himself rude pit huts, and surrounded himself, his tribe, and cattle with a circular camp.
		Hence they conceived the brilliant notion of constructing dwellings built on piles in the midst of lakes or rivers, where they might live in peace and safety, and secure themselves from the sudden attack of their enemies, or the ravages of beasts of prey.
		The first dwelling having been destroyed by flames, a second one was subsequently constructed; and this having shared the same fate, another platform with improved huts was raised upon the ruins of its predecessors.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/9/1/9/9197/9197-h/9197-h.htm (19567 words)

	825
		We meet with pile dwellings in and in the Caroline Islands.
		Sir Richard Burton saw pile dwellings Bishop of Labuan tells us that the houses of the Dayaks are built on and travellers help us to understand alike the anode of construction periods.
		That of Chavannes, on Lake Bienne, belongs to the earliest of native rock, such as serpentine, diorite, or saussurite; the bottoms of the vases are thick, and no traces of ornamentation can of Locras and Latringen, show considerable progress; the hatchets, nephrite, chloromelanite, and jade; and their number, as compared eight per cent.
	www.freearchive.info /82/825.html (380 words)

	Submerged structures / Lake dwellings
		Remains of ancient port and settlements from 1500-1400 BC and later, submerged or washed away in the Arabian Sea.
		Remains of pile dwellings were discovered and investigated.
		Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen, pile dwellings in Lake Constance (Bodensee), Germany.
	www.abc.se /~pa/uwa/submerge.htm (663 words)

	pt3 - Manks Antiquities, 1914
		Their dwellings " probably were of much the same character as those of the Swiss Lake population, except that for the most part they were placed upon the dry land, and not on platforms above the water.
		The dwellings in the Isle of Man appear to have been similar to those of the Neolithic folk-possibly larger and better built.
		We have traces also of crannoges, or pile-dwellings, artificial islands formed of stones, tree-trunks, and smaller stuff piled up, in a lake or morass, and kept in position by stakes so as to make a platform upon which huts could be built in a secure position, surrounded by water.
	www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/fulltext/ma1914/pt3.htm (4645 words)

	lake dwelling. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Such a site afforded easy access to a varied food supply by the availability of fish, marsh fowl, and good crop lands.
		Africa, Asia, and South America have had lake-dwelling peoples; pile dwellings were also found in the lagoons of Pacific islands.
		The lake dwellings of Neolithic Switzerland have been reinterpreted as lakeside villages constructed during periods of low water level; sometimes houses were built even on dry lake beds.
	www.bartleby.com /65/la/lakedwel.html (169 words)

	PILE - Online Information article about PILE
		MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat.
		reverse was placed on a small upright pillar, pile, the other on a puncheon known as a " trussell " (Fr.
		lake-dwellings built on " piles " are also known as " pile-dwellings." For the use of piles in building see FOUNDATIONS and See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PIG_POL/PILE.html (725 words)

	ENGLISH VILLAGES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Pit dwellings were not the only kind of habitations which the early inhabitants of our country used, and some of our villages possess constructions of remarkable interest, which recent industrious digging has disclosed.
		As all the actual dwellings have been destroyed by time's rude action, it is impossible to describe them accurately; but their usual size was about 20 feet by 12 feet.
		It will be gathered that these people, whether dwelling in their pit or lake villages, showed so much capacity, industry, and social organisation, that even in the Neolithic Age they were far removed from a savage state, and a low condition of culture and civilisation.
	beryl.ils.unc.edu /~widger/folder/8vilg10h/8vilg10h.htm (19833 words)

	Eduardiño’s Revenge
		They are houses made of wood and cardboard on the ocean, pile dwellings built on the sandy bottom just as was done at the dawn of human history.
		To move about between these pile dwellings, you have to walk along nightmarish suspended bridges, being careful that no child is impaled on a stilt or falls into the water.
		Within those pile dwellings lies the desperation of people who have been uprooted and have no prospects for their lives.
	www.traces-cl.com /dic01/eduardi.htm (1407 words)

	Borzoi Central - Historical Borzoi Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		It may be assumed that these bones occupy in time a position between the so-called "Danish kitchen remains" and the "Swiss pile dwelling." It turned out that a comparison of the Ladoga dog with the dog bones of the kitchen remains is all but impossible because of the extremely spoiled state of the latter.
		The remains of the pile dwellings are superior material for comparison.
		From comparisons, it turned out in general that the dogs of the pile dwellings and Lake Ladoga have much in common, both in the structure of the skull and in height; they are apparently the same breed.
	www.borzoi.cc /hist-rozen-prehist1.html (2527 words)

	International Conference "Tree Rings and People"
		The different felling phases found in the piles allowed us to reconstruct the development of the village through a chronology of annual precision during a period of about 70 years between 1709 and 1637 cal. BC.
		A peculiarity of the village "Frassino I" was revealed by wood analysis: the posts of the pile dwellings were mostly made either with trunks of Quercus Sectio Robur (n=49) or with trunks of Quercus Sectio Cerris (n=38), after Cambini 1967a,b.
		It was surprising to discover that the inhabitants of the village did not use the two types of oak wood at the same time.
	www.wsl.ch /forest/dendro2001/abstracts/abs105.ehtml (275 words)

	International Conference "Tree Rings and People"
		Dendrochronological investigations in prehistoric pile dwellings in the Ljubljana Moor, Slovenia
		Chronologies derived from two adjacent and two more distant pile dwellings were successfully crossdated.
		Radiocarbon analysis indicates two periods of wood formation, 3850-3325 BC and 2847-2309 BC, suggesting that the Ljubljana Moor was inhabited in the 4th and in the 3rd millennium BC.
	www.wsl.ch /forest/dendro2001/abstracts/abs23.ehtml (265 words)

	Submerged structures / Lake dwellings
		Remains of dwelling from c 2000 BC, now submerged.
		Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen, pile dwellings in Bodensee Lake, Germany
		La Tène, prehistoric Celtic pile dwelling, located in 1857, Switzerland
	www.abc.se /~m10354/bld/uwa/submerge.htm (435 words)

	Primitive Aryan Life
		Here, for example, is the concluding passage of the Iliad, describing very exactly the making of a prehistoric barrow, (We have taken here Chapman's rhymed translation, correcting certain words with the help of the prose version of Lang, Leaf, and Myers.
		But when th' elev'nth morn let on earth her rosy fingers shine, The people fiock'd about the pile, and first with gleaming wine Quenel}'d all the flames.
		Then wrapt they in soft purple veils the rich urn, digg'd a pit, Grav'd it, built up the grave with stones, and quickly piled on it A barrow.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles32n/history-outline-93.shtml (1994 words)

	L'île aux oiseaux (Bird Island) - Arachon Bay
		Secondly there are the yachtsmen for whom it seems an attraction not to be missed and who's small craft are often crowded around the piles of the famous pile dwellings.
		And last but not least there is the colonies of birds that gather here and thus provided the island with a name.
		Furthermore we would like to point out that the oyster banks, the pile dwellings, the hunting cabins (the 'tonnes) and everything else on the island is private property.
	www.littoral33.com /gb/bird_island.htm (698 words)

	Pile dwellings -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Pile dwellings -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Pile dwellings are houses raised on stilts over the surface of the soil or a body of water.
		Reconstructed pile dwellings are shown in open air museums in (additional info and facts about Unteruhldingen) Unteruhldingen and (additional info and facts about Zürich) Zürich (Pfahlbauland).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pi/pile_dwellings.htm (80 words)

	Die Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		On the right we can see the pile dwellings of Unteruhldingen, somewhat hidden behind a harbor.
		A pile dwelling museum shows reconstructions of two settlements, one from the Neolithic Age, about 5,500 years ago; and one from the Bronze Age, about 3,000 years ago.
		Not far behind the settlements, surrounded by vineyards, we find the baroque monastery church Birnau, one of the famous landmarks of the Lake Constance region.
	www.zeppelinflug.de /pages/E/westroute_inhalt_hagn.htm (291 words)

	pile dwelling on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Mobile home fire a reminder to use caution.(Fires)(An abandoned west Eugene dwelling is destroyed as officials warn that the season is ripe for large wildland fires)
		Then new neighbours moved in; When the next-door family home was carved up into several separate dwellings, little did Carol Sarler, above, know of the...
		This 115-year-old dwelling in St. Paul has dozens - each a window into what life was like for its diverse inhabitants.(VARIETY)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-piledwel.asp (447 words)

	British Commonwealth
		The stamp shows Sultan Ahmed and pile dwellings in the town of Brunei.
		Burma was part of India from 1826 until 1937, when it became a self-governing unit of the British Commonwealth.
		The claim is reasserted on the Burmese map stamp of 1957.
	sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/commonwealth12c.htm (93 words)

	Search Results for excavate - Encyclopædia Britannica
		a pile of stones that is used as a boundary marker, a memorial, or a burial site.
		Cairns are usually conical in shape and were often erected on high ground.
		In 1865 Virchow discovered pile dwellings in northern Germany, and in 1870 he started to excavate hill forts.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=excavate&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (432 words)

	the tourism summits \| the S't' region \| geneva \| history
		The most ancient finds evidencing human occupancy of the Geneva area date back to about 3000 BC : they were unearthed on the shores of Lake Geneva, where there had been huddles of pile dwellings.
		The hill on which the later centre, now the Old Town, would be built was uninhabited probably for another two thousand years, then in about 500 BC members of the Celtic Allobroges clan stockaded themselves there.
		The headquarters of UNO were transferred to New York in 1945, but Geneva has retained its European Office.
	www.sommets-tourisme.org /e/region/geneve/histoire.html (820 words)

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