Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1930, Page 122

iHE MAN OF THE EARLY STONE l AGE DI> NOT HAVE TOOLS GOOD ENOUGH TO BUILD A DWELLING TO PROTECT HIM FROM THE ELEMENTS, SO HE SOUGHT SHELTER IN CAVERNS., HENCE WE SPEAK OF MIM AS THE “CAVE MAN." ORY B AncienT MEs Houses WERE BUILT OF WHATEVER MATERIALS WERE CLOSEST AT HAND, WHILE THE CLIMATE MAD A GREAT DEAL TO DO WITH THE STYLE OF ARCHI- TECTURE EMPLOVED. — ° IN BABYLONIA AND EGYPT THERE WERE NO FORESTS AND VERY LITTLE STONE. LACKING THESE IMPORTANT BUILDING MATERIALS ,THE PEOPLE OF THOSE COUNTRIES USED SUN- DRIED BRICK MADE OF Muppy CLAY FROM THE RIVERBANKS INTHE CORSTRUCTION OF THEIR * HOUSES, ——m——— @ -QoM A DISTANCE AN EARD BABYLONIAN FARM VILLAGE OF CONICAL MUD HMUTS RESEMBLED A COLLECTION OF BEEMIVES . —- R HE HOME OF AN EGYPTIAN NOBLE BESIDE THME NILE -3000 B.C. Ao\ RRITNER Y, .\NCE EGVYPT HAS AWARM CLIMATE | WITH ALMOST NO RAINFALL , EGYPTIAN HOMES WERE BUWT OPEN TO THE WEATHER. AT NIGHT THE OPENINGS WERE CLOSED WITH HEAVY CURTAINS . : (< by J.Carcoll Man ield)] — ,!ITHlN THE ENCLOSURE ARE SLANE-QUARTERS, STOREHOLISES AND FISH PONDS. NOTE THE ROOF- , SARDEN ATOP THE NOBLES HOUSE. OUTER WALL OF SUN=- FRON' Pooty PLAN OF GREER HousE -500 B.C. STREET HE GREEK HOUSE OF ANCIENT TIMES CONSISTED OF A NUMBER. OF ROOMS BLILT AROUN> A CENTRAL COURT. THERE WERE NO WINDOWS, AND THE ONLY LIGHT CAME FROM THE COURY], ————— ——— T BucnG THE LATE SToNE AGE, “LAKE -DWELLERS" IN SWITZER - LAND BUILT WOODEN HUTS ) e B>/, uflitw\m w.";“ ON PILES ONER THE WATER ™ o @ Creree AN WNuawm e 2N Bt A) 3 < PART OF THE BRIDGE WAS s—% REMOVED AT NIGHT FOR PROTECTION, Homes Through the Ages, rarr1 A el A DWELLINGS WERE BARE,BOXLIKE STRUCTURES OF SUN-DRIED> BRICK. EACH MAD BUT ONE POOR AND WAS LIGHTED BY A HOLE IN THE ROOE 7O USE THE COLONNADE IN BUILD~ ING (2800 B.C.). EACH COLUMN MILD, THE FAMILY SPENT MOST OF 7S TIME ON THE COLONNADE,OR COVERED PORCH,(THEY CALLED IT THE " PERISTYLE ") THAT RAN AROUND THE CENTRAL COURT, ELD v EIEASANTS IN ANCIENT EGYPT LIVEP IN MUP HOVELS ROOFEP WITH STRAW THATCH. WooD> AND STONE, BROUGHT FROM FAR PISTANT FORESTS AND QUARRIES, WERE USED IN BuLLD~ ING THE HOUSES OF THE NOBLES, —- EGQYPTIAN WAS DECORATED WITH WALL PAINTINGS AND HIERO - THESE EARLY HOUSES, THE COOR- ING WAS DONE OVER A BRAZIER OF CHARCOAL. . CONVENIENCES AND SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS WERE ENTIRELY LACKING . - 70 BE CONTINUED>.