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- adjective Partially
subterranean , partially underground.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Archaic people also built semisubterranean pit houses with deep storage pits, hearth stones and reflector stones.
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The Archaic people also built semisubterranean pit houses with deep storage pits, hearth stones and reflector stones.
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The Archaic people also built semisubterranean pit houses with deep storage pits, hearth stones and reflector stones.
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The Archaic people also built semisubterranean pit houses with deep storage pits, hearth stones and reflector stones.
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In addition, the Inuit pattern of winter settlement across much of Nunavut changed from the land to the sea ice and the Thule Culture Classic Stage semisubterranean whalebone and boulder house was abandoned in many areas for the snow igliuk or iglu.
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They occupied a few permanent villages, the largest of which we now know as Botai, and lived in small, square semisubterranean houses.
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Probably the semisubterranean temple and the Chunchukala Complex continued in use, but only as part of the larger Kalasasaya Complex.
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The earliest monuments that survive from the period of approximately 300 B.C. to A.D. 200 are the semisubterranean temple (background) and the Chunchukala Complex (foreground).
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To the east, other late Ice Age people adapted to life on the open steppe-tundra, relying on mammoth bones, skins, and sod to build dome-shaped, semisubterranean houses.
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The roomy semisubterranean dwelling was strong and built to last many years.
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