ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors find many peoples in the primitive condition as regards their dwelling place: as there are people without clothes, so are there people without a home. The first constructed homes were pit dwellings and huts, the latter apparently evolved from the wind shelter. The hut of the Fuegan, for instance, is only a rather more elaborate wind shelter, which has taken the form of a hollowed mound with its opening towards the fire. The dwelling of the herdsman is a tent, consisting of a wooden framework covered with skins, hides or felt. The smaller dwellings of the Oceanians, which were built of timber and provided with carefully cut boarded partitions and mat curtains, and frequently containing several apartments, almost deserve the title of houses. The town is the dwelling place more especially of merchants and artizans, as it is the home of specialized labour, and it becomes a commercial centre.
