Around 7000 years ago, the Linear Pottery culture flourished in the heart of Neolithic Europe. Their most awe-inspiring innovation was the colossal timber longhouses they built; the biggest of them were the largest structures humanity had ever erected. These longhouses could be 50 meters or 160 feet long, housing entire extended families, their livestock, and stores of grain under a single, massive roof. Precisely built using enormous structural timbers – and walls of split logs and wattle and daub – these structures demonstrated advanced carpentry and engineering skills. See the whole video here: https://youtu.be/Fbm80SzraRw
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Date: November 9, 2025
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Find out all about them here: https://youtu.be/Fbm80SzraRw
Sarawak still has a few long houses in existence . Most of the best ones are tourist attractions b, but real ones still existed years old up river from Kuching… though the Palm oil Palm plantations have decimated the jungle
I suppose the woodsmoke must have prevented rot in the thatch and wood.
And then you got the Vinca (Danube) culture that predates these guys some 3000-4000 years
I once lived with a cow, she eventually moved out.
The older used to lived in the middle ? The babies in the deepest, and adulta and young adults in front ??
And yet these Advanced carpentry and Engineering skills still wouldn't be up to code today
Looks like these peeps are descendants of Noah.
ARYANS SEE THIS AND LAUGH
Almost identical to new zealand maori structures