What were longhouses made of?

Answer 1

Longhouses were typically made of a wooden frame constructed from poles and beams, with walls made of woven branches or bark. The roofs were often covered with thatch or bark shingles. The interior of the longhouse would have been divided into sections for different purposes, such as living quarters, storage areas, and communal spaces. The design and materials used for longhouses varied among different indigenous cultures around the world.

Answer 2

Long houses are such an obvious invention that they have been used all over the Place. Vikings, Native Americans and Amazon indians have all used them.

North West coast Native Americans used them

Answer 3

When you wanted to sleep.... Longhouses are family homes that lodged several people. You slept there, ate there, hung corn to dry in them... There were separate buildings for ceremonial practice if that's what you mean. When depended on what time of the year it was...

Answer 4

Before contact with Europeans all native Americans in North, Central and South America were effectively Neolithic (New Stone Age) cultures. This means that they made the best use of natural resources and materials in their particular area, whether that was mud-brick, grass lodges, earth lodges, shelters of brushwood, plank houses or bark-covered timber longhouses.

In the eastern woodlands are of what is now the USA, the major resource was trees and the natives used various parts of different trees for constructing canoes, dwellings and containers. Building a longhouse in the middle of the Plains would have been impossible, since there were no suitable trees, but in the woodlands it was the obvious building material.

Answer 5

The Iroquois Indians long houses are made by large wood-frame buildings covered with elm bark for the roof.
Long houses were made out of poles of wood, birch, and skins.

Answer 6

Longhouses were built near the water because whenever there is an enemy, they can escape from them.

Answer 7

In the Northeast, the most noted builders were the Iroquois, along with the Mohawk, Onandaga, Oneida, Seneca and Cayuga. Longhouses were also built in the Northwest.

Answer 8

On the farm land