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Reviewed Article:

The Construction of a Bronze Age Longhouse Model in Dwelling-byre Style using Experimental Archaeological Techniques

From our experimental approach in constructing a full scale model of a longhouse we believe that the people in the Bronze Age must have had a complex system of numbers and data for linear measurements to manage such house building challenges. During the Bronze Age, either round or split wood was used for building purposes, which could be worked over very precisely to rectangular forms of beams, planks and boards.