Brush huts and the like are rare in the archaeological record because the
wood and grass out of which they are made normally rots away in a few years.
Once in a while circumstances conspire to preserve such a structure. In
Discovering Archaeology this month a 19,000 year old brush hut was found on
the bottom of the Sea of Galilee. It was exposed because of a long drought.
The report is at
http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/1000toc/10randn02-hunts.shtml
The preservation was fantastic and interestingly, the huts had no
'foundation' in the sense that there were no post holes. Given this, one
must wonder how far back in time such structures go.
There have been evidences of huts at Olorgosailie, Kenya and Bilzingsleben
Germany dating 400,000 years ago and at the DK site in Olduvai gorge at 1.8
million years ago. The lack of post holes means that it will be very hard to
discern such structures long long ago.
glenn
see http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
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