pit-house
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8.6
- noun
- /ˈpɪtˌhaʊs/
- Specialized
:
casa de hoyo
- Thomas led a crew on a two-day hike to the 11,000-foot summit, where he discovered pit-house remains, huge stone slabs, and hundreds of tiny arrowheads.
- pit-house site
Examples
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Over the past eight field seasons, the archaeologists have uncovered three rectangular pit houses, a cattle barn, and a small hall.
Academic text (2007) -
PHOTO (COLOR): Cattle rancher Waldo Wilcox, standing among the remains of a pit house, protected a wealth of Fremont Indian sites on his Range Creek ranch for 50 years.
Academic text (2004) -
Vsteinsson showed me one of the pit houses.
Academic text (2007) -
I was immensely impressed by the size and complexity of the pit-house sites, which dated to the eighth century A.D.
Academic text (2009) -
"The pit houses were very well insulated," says Kevin Jones, Utah's state archaeologist.
Academic text (2004) -
From the outside, these pit houses would have looked like large mounds of mud, but inside they had seven-foot-high ceilings.
Academic text (2004) -
They climbed down another ladder into the dark, one-room pit house that sank halfway under the earth.
Fiction book (1995) -
The size of the houses and the arrangement of the living space are very similar to pit houses found east of the Elbe River and at Slavic enclaves in Denmark.
Academic text (2007) -
The next largest sites of that period had about 20 pit houses (and those are hailed as prodigies), and 99 percent of the sites of Shabik'eschee's time were made up of only one or two houses.
Academic text (2009) -
The early Puebloans built their homes in pit houses that provided shelter from harsh weather.
Synonyms
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6.0
A shelter dug into the ground and covered with earth
A shelter partly dug into the ground with a roof for people or animals
How Underground
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word pit-house is simply two common words joined: pit (a 'hole in the ground') and house. So a pit-house is literally a 'house in a hole', a shelter dug into the ground to keep people or animals warm and safe.