A pit-house discovered near Willowdale dates back at least 5,000 years.

This apparent strategic location may reveal a ranking between the sites through the individual pit-house features.

The large pit-house was likely a "great" kiva.

Usually, all that remains of the ancient pit-house is a dug out hollow in the ground and any postholes used to support the roof.

A pit-house (or pithouse) is a building that is partly dug into the ground, and covered by a roof.

Remains of a pit-house in Yachats have been radiocarbon dated at approximately 570 AD.

At the same site charred human skeletal remains were discovered in the corner of a pit-house inside a large vessel apparently used as a burial urn.

The first Ancestral Puebloan homes and villages were based on the pit-house, a common feature in the Basketmaker periods.

Before 850 BC pit-houses were heated using fire from various kinds of hearths that were dug into the floor of the pit-house.

Exhibits include recreated examples of Aboriginal architecture structures: a Tipi, Pit-house, and Sweat lodge.

A pit-house at Jitam-ri yielded several hundred grams of some carbonized cultigen that North Korean archaeologists state is millet.

This is also when the burdei pit-house (below-ground) style of house construction was developed, which was still used by Romanians and Ukrainians up until the 20th century.

Pythouse, sometimes spelt Pyt House and pronounced pit-house, is a country house near Tisbury in Wiltshire, in the west of England.

During Boian phases I and II the dwellings of this culture were thrown-together, oval-shaped lean-to or dugout pit-house shelters built into river banks and ledges.

By AD 490, their descendants, of the Late Basketmaker II Era, farmed lands around Shabik'eshchee Village and other pit-house settlements at Chaco.

Instead, when there is clear evidence that a site, such as a pit-house, involved some form of ironworking, archaeologists are advised to form a grid and collect soil from the site for further analysis.

A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pit-house, earth lodge, mud hut, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground.

They lay partially underground like an earth lodge or pit-house, and most of the house was excavated from the dirt so as to withstand the high forces of wind in the Aleutian chain of islands.

Quiggly, quiggly hole - refers to the remains of an old Indian pit-house, or underground house, from "kickwillie" or "kekuli", which in the Jargon means "down" or "underneath" or "beneath".

Funding of $200,000 will help the Cook's Ferry Indian Band construct an open-air structure based on the traditional pit-house of the Nlaka'pamux people, to serve as a regional First Nations cultural interpretive centre.

The archaeologists hope to learn if the Indian pit-house dwellers were hunters or fishermen, how long they lived there, the time of year they usually spent in the canyon, and how many lived there, Mr. Womack said.

Although most village sites were relatively small during this period, Shabik'eschee (about AD 550 - 700) contained 18 pit-houses for an estimated 77 people, more than 50 storage pits, and a large pit-house used for celebration and rituals.

Ancient Pueblo people lived in the Canyons of the Ancients in the 10th century; Lowry Pueblo, built during the Great Pueblo period, was built atop pit-house built in the 10th century.

The Pueblo I villages were larger than the settlements of the preceding Basket Maker period; In the Four Corners region the average of 5 to 10 pit-house per settlement rose to 20 to 30 pit-houses per community.

One current and symbolic example is the pit-house recently erected at the Unis'tot'en Camp, an autonomous community located on the proposed North Gateway Pipeline route across the traditional territory of the Wet'suwet'en people (central British Columbia).

The discovery of a pit-dwelling is the first of its kind in Bangladesh.

Excavation also unearthed the presence of pit-dwelling.

The pit-dwelling is a Copper Age or Chalcolithic artefact.

At this site a pit-dwelling (probably ca 800AD), discovered accidentally, had been confirmed with a 1m x 1m test excavation.

He indicated the sunken contours of a pit-dwelling; he showed me the fragmentary foundations of a building wall made of rough stone mortared with mud.

According to the recent excavations made at the archaeological site of Wari-Bateshwar, it can be said that the history of science and technology in Bangladesh starts in the Chalcolithic age; some evidences of pit-dwelling from that period were found in those excavations.