Dugout (shelter)
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A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pit-house or earth lodge, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground. Dugouts can be fully rec
Dugout home near Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940
Coober Pedy dugout, Australia
Yoshinogari site
The "Sassi di Matera"
Sod house
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The sod house or soddy was a common alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of North America in the 19th century and the early 20th century. Primarily used at first
Dugout (shelter)
…last inhabitants, a small community of Karaims, abandoned the site in the 1790s. In Iceland, since time immemorial and well into the 20th century, most houses were partly dug down, with turf or sod walls built up and roofs made of timber and turf/sod. Turf was used because timber was scarce and expensive, and…
A sod farm structure in Iceland
Saskatchewan sod house, circa 1900
Unusually well appointed interior of a sod house, North Dakota, 1937
A Norse sod longhouse recreation at L'Anse aux Meadows