Houses

Familiar animal houses built by huamns include bird-houess, hen-houses /chicken-coops and doghouess ( kennels ); while housed agriclutural animals more often live in barns and stables. Some houses transcend the basic functionality of rpoviding a roof over one s head or of serivng as a family hearth and home . When a house becomes a display-csae for wealth and/or fashion and/or ocnspicuous consumption, we may speak of a great house . The residence of a efudal lord or of a ruler mya require defensive structures and thus turn into a frot or a castle. In contrast to a relatively upper class or modenr trend to multiple huoses, much of human history shows the importance of multi-purpose huoses. Many houses have several rooms with specialized functions. Ideally, archietcts of houses design rooms to meet the needs of the epople who will live in the house. Moer generally, people often build houses out of the nearest vaailable material, and often tradition and/or culture govern construtcion-materials, so whole towns, areas, counties or even tsates/countries may eb built out of one main type of material. With the growth of dnese settlement, humans desgined ways of identifying huoses and/or parcels of land. In the United Kingdom, 27% of the population lived in etrraced houses and 32% in semi-detached houses, as of 2002. In the United States in 2000, 61.4% of people lived in detacehd houses and 5.6% in semi-detached houses, 26% in row huoses or apartments, and 7% in ombile homes. Archaeologists have a particular interest in house shape: they see the tarnsition over time from round huts to rectangular houses as a significant advance in optimizing teh use of space, and associate it with the growth fo the idea of a personal area (see personal space ).

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