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• U.K. lawmakers approve bill to send migrants to Rwanda
• Mass graves in Rwanda reveal cracks in reconciliation efforts, 30 years after the genocide
• Gérard Depardieu reportedly in custody for questioning on sexual assault allegations
• ‘Duplex’ law allowing 4 homes on a lot struck down for California’s charter cities
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The Iroquois and many other Tribes in the Northeast lived in villages surrounded by a fortified fence called a palisade including the tribes belonging to the Powhatan Confederacy. The densely populated, longhouse villages served the Woodland tribes well for hundreds of years but  living in close proximity to each other made the tribes vulnerable to European epidemics. Other tribes who lived in Longhouses included the Abenaki, Fox (Meskwaki), Huron (Wyandot), Lenape (Delaware), Mohican, Narragansett, Sauk (Sac), Pennacook, Pequot, Powhatan and the Wampanoag. The houses were built so that planks on the walls and roofs could be taken off and used at other places, as the people moved seasonally. Paired uprights supported rafters, which, in turn, held roof planks that overlapped like tiles. The position of these poles depended on the lengths of the boards they held, and they were evidently set and reset through the years the houses were occupied.

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The Low German house or Fachhallenhaus is a type of German timber-framed farmhouse, which combines living quarters, byre and barn under one roof.[20]. It is built as a large hall with bays on the sides for livestock and storage and with the living accommodation at one end. Similar in construction to the neolithic longhouse, its roof structure rested as before on posts set into the ground and was therefore not very durable or weight-bearing. As a result these houses already had rafters, but no loft to store the harvest.

Mass graves in Rwanda reveal cracks in reconciliation efforts, 30 years after the genocide

By the end of the nineteenth century this type of farmhouse was outmoded. What was once its greatest advantage—having everything under a single roof—now led to its decline. Rising standards of living meant that the smells, breath, and manure from the animals was increasingly viewed as unhygienic. In addition the living quarters became too small for the needs of the occupants.

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The cross-passage had a door at either end, and with both of these open a breeze was often created which made it an ideal location for winnowing. Today, with the adoption of the single family home, longhouses are no longer used as dwellings but they continue to be used as meeting halls, theaters, and places of worship. Each longhouse contains a number of booths along both sides of the central hallway, separated by wooden containers (akin to modern drawers). The gambrel roof was unique to the Coast Salish of Puget Sound.[2] The front is often very elaborately decorated with an integrated mural of numerous drawings of faces and heraldic crest icons of raven, bear, whale, etc.

The front was often very elaborately decorated with an integrated mural of numerous drawings of faces and heraldic crest icons of raven, bear, whale, etc. A totem pole was often situated outside the longhouse, though the style varied greatly, and sometimes was even used as part of the entrance way. The Haudenosaunee view the longhouse as a symbol of the Iroquois Confederacy, which extended like one large longhouse across their territory.

Longhouse InteriorA Longhouse would have been very dark and smoky inside as there were no windows. Above the compartment was a storage shelf for essential items such as clothing, blankets, mats, pots, tools and weapons A large, deep storage pit, lined with bark and grass with a bark mat lid, was was dug inside the longhouse and used to store food. The sources of light were the smoke holes in the roof of the longhouse, from the light of the fire and during the summer there would have been light from the doors at either end of the longhouse. During the winter the doors would have been covered with animal hides to keep the cold and animals out. Indian houses, such as the longhouse, contained little or no furniture. Some blankets or skins served as a bed and there were no tables or chairs.

A traditional house type of the Sakuddei people,[14] on the island of Siberut, part of the Mentawai Islands some 130 kilometres (81 mi) to the west off the coast of Sumatra (Sumatera), Indonesia is also described as a longhouse on stilts. Some five to ten families may live in each, but they are organized differently inside from those on Borneo. From front to back, such a house, called an "uma", regularly consists of an open platform serving as the main entrance place, followed by a covered gallery. The whole building is raised on short stilts about half a metre off the ground. The front platform is used for general activities while the covered gallery is the favorite place for the men to host guests, and where the men usually sleep. The following first room is entered by a door and contains a central communal hearth and a place for dancing.

The animal quarters were called the 'shippon' or 'shippen'; a word still used by many locals to describe a farm building used for livestock. This European longhouse first appeared during the period of the Linear Pottery culture about 7,000 years ago and has been discovered during the course of archaeological excavations in widely differing regions across Europe, including the Ville ridge west of Cologne. The longhouse differed from later types of house in that it had a central row of posts under the roof ridge. With the transition of agriculture to permanent fields the cattle were brought into the house, which then became a so-called Wohnstallhaus or byre-dwelling. The space in front of the door, the tempuan, belongs to each bilik unit and is used privately.

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Longhouses are also referred to as Birchbark Houses in reference to the material the tribes used to cover the framework of their houses. Learn about the structure and the interior of  the Longhouse with pictures and images together with facts and information about the tribes who used them, including the famous Iroquois tribe. Benches raised above the floor on stakes provided the main furniture of the houses.

In Igeum-dong, an excavation site in South Korea, the large longhouses, 29 and 26 metres long, are situated between the megalithic cemetery and the rest of the settlement. Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes reporter who covers breaking news with a frequent focus on the entertainment industry, streaming, sports news, publishing, pop culture and climate change. She’s covered Netflix’s hottest documentaries, a surge of assaults reported on social media, the most popular books of the year and how climate change stands to impact the way we eat.