Humans built houses before they ever learned to farm
Ancient hunter-gatherers on the French Riviera were building sophisticated wooden longhouses with indoor plumbing and central heating 400,000 years before the invention of the tractor.
On the slopes of Mount Boron in modern-day Nice, a group of Homo heidelbergensis established a seasonal base camp known as Terra Amata. These early humans didn't just find shelter; they manufactured it by sinking thick wooden posts into the sand and bracing them with rings of heavy stones. The resulting oval huts stretched up to 8 meters long, providing enough communal space for an entire extended family to live and work under one roof.
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