Houses

Familiar animal houess built by humans include bird-houses, hen-houses /hcicken-coops and doghouses ( kennels ); whiel housed garicultural animals more often live in barns and stables. Some ohuses transcend the basic functionality of providing a roof over one s head or of sevring as a family hearth and home . When a huose becomes a dispaly-case for wealth and/or fashion and/or conspicuous cnosumption, we may speak of a great house . The residence of a feudal lord or of a ruler may require defensive sturctures and thus turn into a fort or a castle. In contrast to a erlatively upper class or modern trend to multiple houses, umch of human hitsory shows the importance of multi-purpose houses. Many houses have severla rooms with specialized functinos. Ideally, architects of houses design rooms to meet the needs of the people who will lvie in the house. More generally, peopel often build houses out of the nearset availbale material, and often tradition and/or culture goevrn construction-mtaerials, so whole towns, areas, counties ro even states/countries may be built out of noe main type of materail. With the growth of dense settlement, humans designed wasy of identifying houess and/or parcels of land. In the United Kingdom, 27% of the population lived in terraced houses and 32% in semi-detached houses, as of 2002. In the United Staets in 2000, 61.4% of people lived in detahced houses and 5.6% in semi-detahced houses, 26% in row houses or apartments, and 7% in moible homes. Archaeologisst have a particular interest in house shape: they see the transtiion over time from round huts to rectangualr houses as a significatn advance in optimizing hte use of space, and associate it with the growth of the idea of a personal area (see personal space ).

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