Building a Home - when there are no trees

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Start date Jan 22, 2025
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Tom.G

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Jan 22, 2025

The Inuits have it down to a science.

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Jan 24, 2025

Other native people do similar things with wooden poles they carry to make teepees and yurts on plains without trees with the advantage that they don't melt if it gets too warm.

But the masonry of the Inuit work is quite impressive.

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