pit-dwelling

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noun A dwelling or hut which is largely below the surface so that little more than the roof projects above ground, this often being covered with earth. The term is especially applied to such ancient dwellings of which little more remains than the hole or pit which they occupied.

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One such pit-dwelling, on the south side of the canyon opposite

The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito : 1964
A third pit-dwelling, its floor at a depth of 13½ feet, had been half washed away before we discovered it.

The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito : 1964
The surviving portion of that gully bank pit-dwelling was described by Roberts as "Arroyo House."

The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito : 1964
"In fact, pit-dwelling in northern climates affords no indication of race."

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
Japanese annals occurs in connexion with the slaughter of eighty braves invited to a banquet by the Emperor Jimmu's general in a pit-dwelling at Osaka.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
Thus, the theory of a special race of immigrants anterior to the Yemishi has to be abandoned so far as the evidence of pit-dwelling is concerned.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886