People began to build homes, shelters for themselves and their families, thousands and thousands of years ago. The kinds of homes people built long ago depended almost completely upon the climate in which they lived, the building materials that were close at hand, and the dangers they faced in their daily lives.
Th ancient Egyptians are believed to have been among the first to discover how to make bricks. In Mesopotamia primitive people later developed a way of making the sundried bricks harder and stronger. They placed the bricks in a hot fire and ‘burned’ them. Such bricks have lasted for thousands of years.
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Fact File: Ice Age hunters made shelters from the bones of mammoths. They made the framework of bones and filled in the gaps with skins, turf and moss |
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