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"Stonehenge<\/a>You might be wondering why there is a picture of Stonehenge at the top of this blog post, it turns out archaeologists have found an “eco-home” near it.\u00a0\u00a0 Its a bit of a silly story since I doubt if mesolithic man was thinking about the environment when building it.\u00a0\u00a0 It seems that our ancestors used a fallen tree as one wall and the pit left by the fallen tree as a place to live.\u00a0 Both were lined with stones.\u00a0 A post was erected about 10m away to support a roof linked to the\u00a0eco-home.\u00a0 What has got archaeologists so excited was the use of stones which were heated by a fire elsewhere and placing them close to where people slept, which was safer.\u00a0 Its other eco features included a lot of animal skins as insulation.\u00a0 People occupied the eco-home for about 90 years.\u00a0 However, in my mind the slightly later underground houses at Skara Brae<\/a> in Orkney are far more sophisticated.<\/p>\n

The whole eco-home issue does raise some contemporary issues though.\u00a0 The archaeologists compared the occupants of the eco-home living in relative harmony with their environment with that of the A303 20m away.\u00a0 Another issue is the idea of earth houses<\/a> which are obviously not new (what is), having a low impact on the environment, particularly visually.\u00a0 From the aesthetic point of view it this idea of underground living maybe part of a solution to the UK’s housing crisis although there are other impacts they do not solve.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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