Question

Where were pit houses usually found during ancient times?

Answer 1

Answer:

PIT HOUSE - A PRIMITIVE BUILDING PARTIALLY DUG INTO THE GROUND AND ROOFED OVER IS KNOW AS PIT HOUSES. THIS TYPE OF HOUSES ARE FOUND IN VILLAGES OR FORESTS I THINK

Explanation:

A pit-house (or pithouse) is a building that is partly dug into the ground, and covered by a roof. Besides providing shelter from extremes of weather, these structures may also be used to store food and for cultural activities like the telling of stories, dancing, singing and celebrations.

Answer 2

Answer:

A pit house (or pithouse) is a large house in the ground (usually circular) used for shelter.[1] Besides providing shelter from the most extreme of weather conditions, these structures may also be used to store food (just like a pantry, a larder, or a root cellar) and for cultural activities like the telling of stories, dancing, singing and celebrations. General dictionaries also describe a pit-house as a dugout,[2] and it has similarities to a half-dugout.[3]

In archaeology, a pit-house is frequently called a sunken featured building[4][5] and occasionally (grub-)hut[6] or grubhouse, after the German name Grubenhaus[7] They are found in numerous cultures around the world, including the people of the American Southwest, the ancestral Pueblo, the ancient Fremont and Mogollon cultures, the Cherokee, the Inuit, the people of the Plateau, and archaic residents of Wyoming (Smith 2003) in North America; Archaic residents of the Lake Titicaca Basin (Craig 2005) in South America; Anglo-Saxons in Europe; and the Jōmon people in Japan. Anglo-Saxon pit-houses may have actually represented buildings for other functions than just dwellings.

Usually, all that remains of the ancient pit-house is a dug-out hollow in the ground and any postholes used to support the roof. In the nineteenth century, it was believed that most prehistoric peoples lived in pit-houses, although it has since been proved that many of the features thought of as houses were in fact food prehistoric storage pits or served another purpose.[citation