Earlier Homes & Architecture Style of Primitive

Today we pick a very interesting topic about our ancestors, in this article we will talk about the earliest places where human ancestors were first lived and perform some earlier styles of architecture.

The dwelling that pre-historic man made for himself about two and a half million years ago was a cave, so the first style of architecture was little more than a rock with a natural hole in it. This early man spoke no language and was only concerned with finding food to survive a very basic existence. We do not know how man learned to speak a language, nor why he began to build better and more practical places in which to live, but both these things he came to do, partly perhaps as a result of his developing intelligence. He started building timber cabins and homes of grass and leaves, skins and logs and went on to advance and improve his dwellings as he discovered things such as fire and metals around 8000BC.

The first great buildings showings a well established architectural form, were the pyramids which the Egyptians built in the Nile Valley around 4000BC and also the settlements of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia around the same time. The earliest formal construction in the British Isles is Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, probably begun about 1900BC.

A style of architecture is simply a type of structure, built for a particular need, with available materials, and by the known methods of design and construction of the day. What remains today of architecture, or buildings, of earlier times, not only tells us what kind of bricks and mortar, timber or other materials were used for building, but also how people lived. So, in a way, it is living history. It is possible to see from the written historical records that the way man lived, how he worked, how well he was paid or rewarded, how wealthy he was, how he entertained himself and how much he was learning, all greatly influenced what kind of house and public building he constructed, Also whether he was at peace or at war.

For instance, the magnificent Classical Period of the Romans, which was a long period of peace when they erected tall, well-balanced, beautifully columned, buildings, came to a quick end when the Roman Empire fell in the fifth century after Christ. They were no longer settled enough to devote time to the development of the art of architecture. In the eighteenth century too, the elegant and simple Georgian style of architecture flourishing in England, came to an abrupt end. This was due to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s- when machines were first organised for use in industry. Quite suddenly, a different class of society had money and wanted to build grand houses. This resulted in a change to an extravagant, elaborate and bold style, that was representative of the vitality that the new machine age gave to industry, and the people involved in it.

 

Today, in cities, there is style of architecture called high-rise. You probably know these buildings as sky-scrapers-huge tall blocks of offices or flats some having as many as 100 or more, floors. These came to be built because twentieth century man, in many parts of the world, was running out of ground space as more and more people came to live and work in cities. So, with the help of modern technology he found a way of housing more people over the same area of land.

 

Now let we trying to thing and find the answer of following question, 

“Do any people today live in the same kind of houses as their Ancestors?”

Well, when we look around the World; we find that, there are many parts of the world where primitive man living a tribal life. They did not developed in areas of science, literature and discovery; not touched by technology and felting no need to change. Overall this means, they still uncivilised. For example, the Bantu tribes culture of southern Africa came to build cleverly constructed houses of grass, reeds and branches and the Bedouin people of the desert regions of northern Africa, portable tents of woven cloth and animal hair, suitable for their nomadic life. These homes are built in exactly the same style as their ancestors. On the fringes of the cold Arctic Ocean, the Samoyed people still make tents of reindeer skins and birch bark. These are portable, enabling the Samoyeds to camp each spring anywhere on the Tundra where their reindeer herds roam. Even today some Eskimos in Alaska still live in igloos- snow huts made of blocks of ice. Mexican natives build adobe huts, made of slabs of mud and Australian Aborigines build shelters of a circle of sticks, covered in by a low roof of intertwining eucalyptus branches or bark. The architecture of the dwellings of these people and others arose from a traditional way of life and so their houses remain exactly the same today as they were many centuries ago. 

Hope we enjoy this brief historical view about architecture style and earlier homes. Stay tune and below we place some most beautiful architecture achievement puctures around the World. Check it…