Ancient Shelters

Tropical: Rainforest & Savanna Climate Annual Precipitation Exceeds Evaporation

Treehouse in Kulai, Johor (Current day, but similar style of ancient shelter)

Malaysian Treehouse in Rainforest (Current day, but similar style of ancient shelter)

Treehouse in Rainforest (Current day, but similar style of ancient shelter)

Tree House is designed and made with ethnic materials using local craftsmen, local materials and indigenous techniques used by the early inhabitants. The tribals are extensively involved with the construction and maintenance of the Tree houses.

Desert: Dry & Arid Climate Annual Evaporation Exceeds Precipitation

MesoThermal: Humid, Subtropical Seasonal Rainfall

MicroThermal:

Building A Broch - Amazing Iron Age EngineeringUncover the secrets of broch building and learn why they were such an amazing feat of Iron Age engineering in this post from the Caithness Broch Project

Norwegian Storage House 1800's

Nomadic Shelters

Earthlodge_construct.pdf

How-to Create an Earthlodge Model

Polar

https://www.donsmaps.com/images31/mammothhutreconstruction.jpg Photo: http://kenergywind.com/uat2/photo-gallery/Network/mammoth-huts&page=6

Ariel view of landscape where mammoth bone shelter found in red.

30 bone hut sites out of Mammoth bone made by prehistoric humans during the Paleolithic period has been found (as deep as 22.5 m deep) in Czech Republic, Poland and Ukraine in Europe.

The huts and houses were Circular or oval huts and as much as 15 to 20 feet in diameter. The oldest are dated to be 27,500 years old, (Ukraine houses are dated at between 12,000 and 19,000 years ago) and whole villages have been found, being the oldest towns found.

Humankind started creating urban centers like those clusters of homes 15,000 years ago, during the Ice Age.

https://www.elephant.se/mammoth_bone_houses.php?open=Man%20and%20elephants

Inuit Nomatic Homes

The Inuit were nomadic people, so they rarely stayed in one place for very long. Therefore, their houses had to be quick and easy to build.During the summer, the Inuit built tents out of driftwood or poles covered with animal skins, mostly caribou or sealskin. These tents were not unlike the Plains tipis.
A ring of boulders around the base held down the tent skin covering.Since wood was so hard to come by, the wooden poles used to make the tents were jealously guarded.
People from different areas would form large villages during the summer.

Summer Tent

Inuit Winter Igloo

In the winter everyone scatted across the land into small bands again. During the winter, Inuit families would follow the hunt. They needed a shelter that would keep them warm, and protect them from the harsh winter weather.
The most common winter shelter was a snowhouse, more commonly known as an 'igloo'. An igloo was a temporary, dome-shaped shelter made out of snow blocks. The blocks were cut from the snow, and piled in a spiral shape, leaning in slightly. This gave the igloo its dome shape. Soft snow was used to fill any holes, and add extra insulation.
Depending on the size of the igloo, it usually took the Inuit 20-30 minutes to build. Larger, more permanent igloos could reach 4 meters in diameter and 3 meters in height. Sleeping platforms were made of ice blocks, covered with fur.

The environment of the Inuit was diverse, and often varied seasonally. It included:Three Oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic)Mountains (Northern Rockies)Arctic plains (tundra)

https://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_groups/fp_inuit2.html