tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post660538673887655785..comments2024-03-11T15:40:37.015+00:00Comments on Theoretical Structural Archaeology: 35. Olszanica Longhouse 6: Why has it got wide doors?Geoff Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-55257398359987703632021-11-03T18:00:40.698+00:002021-11-03T18:00:40.698+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.FreeFire Diamond hackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15121677651440993378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-74582682189704041632021-08-18T19:31:46.471+01:002021-08-18T19:31:46.471+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.thewideinfohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07562027034759545872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-29941222409265934042021-02-18T12:22:01.841+00:002021-02-18T12:22:01.841+00:00I guess I'd want to store the plough(s) indoor...I guess I'd want to store the plough(s) indoors.jernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-85194349030490078292011-05-09T16:38:40.320+01:002011-05-09T16:38:40.320+01:00I love reading your posts. I am a novelist, and ha...I love reading your posts. I am a novelist, and have no training in your field. But here is a possibility besides wheels being likely. <br /><br /> If they drove/herded animals in from the fields--for bad weather or night shelter--as opposed to leading them inside one by one- wider doors would make everything MUCH easier.<br /><br />Also,if fire was a danger, or had ever been experienced by the people who built these, wider (and multiple)doors make evacuation of animals possible.<br /><br />If the animals were ever used as beasts of burden, any kind of pannier widens the animal considerably.<br /><br />Again, thank you for your posts.kathleen dueyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01176852638727278256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-7100195577787371302010-09-01T23:26:10.831+01:002010-09-01T23:26:10.831+01:00Thanks Ned,
To be honest I missed this; it is an i...Thanks Ned,<br />To be honest I missed this; it is an interesting artefact, linking oxen and wheels, and is in the right sort of timeslot. I am not sure I can agree with the wider implications of the article; a single find can still change the whole debate, so I think it is, at present, one of those imponderables which it is unwise to draw firm conclusions, however frustrating that may be. {As often discussed over at Armchair Prehistory!].<br /><br />The general point of my article is that the presence of wheeled transport may be inferred from the layout of the built environment, and that this is line of evidence should also be considered, as well as the more direct evidence of artefacts.Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-45115690995148164812010-09-01T22:07:36.599+01:002010-09-01T22:07:36.599+01:00Dear Geoff
I know this is long after the event, b...Dear Geoff<br /><br />I know this is long after the event, but I presume you saw the post on Mathilda's Anthropology about a toy with wheels from the Balkan CT culture, dated around 3700BC (well, according to her, anyway)?(http://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/proto-indo-european-speakers-of-the-late-tripolye-culture-as-the-inventors-of-wheeled-vehicles/#comments)<br /><br />NedNed Peglerhttp://armchairprehistory.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-36012401949723021862009-11-04T12:31:36.419+00:002009-11-04T12:31:36.419+00:00Hi Dude,
While houses with piled foundations on la...Hi Dude,<br />While houses with piled foundations on lake edges developed in the Neolithic, possibly a little later, these longhouses are on dry soil.<br />However, your point about sledges is important, Martha has been looking into this an alternative and intuitive solution to moving small loads. <br />It does imply the use of draught animals, prior to the invention of the wheel, but has much to recommended it as a solution to the transport of bulky loads like hay, straw, and firewood, around a farm.Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-52455152592547626772009-11-04T07:04:23.128+00:002009-11-04T07:04:23.128+00:00Asking blindly, were these stilted longhouses abov...Asking blindly, were these stilted longhouses above open water in wetlands? Rather than carts (only terrestrial), perhaps humans punted/pushed/pulled sedge sledges, on indoor tracks to unload cargo, used year-around?DDedenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10033851770461086341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-64751180445623445512009-10-30T09:03:20.895+00:002009-10-30T09:03:20.895+00:00Thanks Martha,
. . . and thanks for the edits!
[...Thanks Martha,<br /> . . . and thanks for the edits!<br />[esp. the refs]<br />Finding things is the interesting bit, writing them up & researching the background takes the time.<br />When you spot something like a 'cart shed?', it's unexpected, and unplanned, and it is just the start of your problems!Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-65057622042281270282009-10-30T01:29:35.520+00:002009-10-30T01:29:35.520+00:00Hurray! I was getting bored.
Congratulations on ...Hurray! I was getting bored. <br /><br />Congratulations on the new post.<br /><br />MarthaMartha Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02539396507098000692noreply@blogger.com