Talk:Long house

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Long houses were long

[edit] Seppocentricity

I believe this article is too focused around an American audience. ROWians (Rest-of-the-World-ians) think Vikings when they think of longhouses. I don't think your average (or even above average) ROWian would even be aware that American indians or Borneoeians (WTF?:P) lived in longhouses, but more huts and tents. Perhaps someone could go through and fix up the POV angle here to universalise it? 211.30.80.121 05:59, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

The picture is of a plank house, not a long house.

Living in Alaska and having studied the art of the Northwest (as in northwest coast of North America) Coast Native People, I can say without question, that the picture is of a traditional longhouse. Perhaps it is called a "plank house" in otherparts of the world. To say that "ROWians .....think Vikings when they think of longhouses", might be a bit presumptuous. I know people along the northwest coast of North America think first of the longhouses of the indigenous people of this area. Since I live in "little Norway" of Alaska and this town was founded by Norwegians, I will ask some of the elders from Norway to tell me of the longhouses of Vikings. Thanks for opening my eyes to another similarity between Vikings and native people of Alaska.66.223.181.96 14:48, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Longhouse describes the layout or plan of the building, not what material it is build of. Plankhouse describes the material the walls are made of and gives a clue to how the walls are constructed. Likewise a log house could be of saddlebag, garrison-house or any modern design. Both, longhouse and plankhouse, can be considered correct as both describe different aspects of the house. As far as I know both are used to describe some of the traditional houses of the northwest coast of Amerika. I don't know wether there are boat houses or houses for other uses in the building traditions of these regions but I can imagine there exist other house types build with the plankhouse method but that do not share the longhouse layout - these could thus be called plankhouses but not longhouses. Building the walls out of vertikal pieces of wood has indeed a long tradition in central and northern Europe. Some of the last still existing examples of this building technic are the stave churches of Norway. --T.woelk 18:22, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] photo?

What is the photo of the wooden house and figure of naked humans? How is this photo relevant to longhouses?Mumun 20:10, 19 October 2006 (UTC)