pile dwellings
Houses on stilts
Pile dwellings are houses built on wooden stakes or poles driven into the ground, typically over water or marshy terrain.
The raised platform keeps the living space above flood levels, protects against animals, and allows construction on otherwise unusable land.
Archaeological examples from prehistoric lake settlements in Switzerland and elsewhere have made the term common in anthropology: The museum featured artifacts from Neolithic pile dwellings.
- stiltPole for elevated walking
- stilt housesHomes built on posts
- crannogMan-made island settlement
- foundationUnderlying support structure
- flood protectionMeasures preventing water damage
water level · floodplain · riverbank · lakefront · estuary · marshland · wetland · tidal zone · Venice · delta · lagoon · archaeological · ancient ruins · post · platform · UNESCO heritage sites · poles · beam
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- prehistoric sitesStonehenge, Lascaux, Carnac, Altamira, Cro-Magnon
- tropical housesstilt houses, bamboo houses, thatched roofs, bamboo huts, traditional huts
- Nordic archaeologyViking artifacts, runestones, burial mounds, bog bodies, grave goods
- Yangtze Neolithicrice cultivation
- ancient sitesPompeii, Stonehenge, pyramids, Colosseum, Giza
pile dwellingsdugouts
Recessed team benches
cave dwellings · cliff dwellings · adobe houses · sod houses · root cellars