semisubterranean

The lowest level was semisubterranean and used more for storage than everyday living.

The roomy semisubterranean dwelling was strong and built to last many years.

Three pithouses, a semisubterranean structure, and two above ground structures were exposed during excavation.

Well insulated and heated by several fires, lamps, and natural body heat, it was warm in the semisubterranean longhouse.

At Noorvik they stayed overnight with an Inuit family in a barabara, a semisubterranean sod housing.

In Tasialujjuap Kuunga, a Thule site with eight large semisubterranean dwellings was identified.

Jondalar was knotting a tie around their rolled-up sleeping furs when she stepped down into the semisubterranean earthlodge.

The fires warmed the interior of the semisubterranean dwelling more than fires usually warmed the caves she was accustomed to.

Some Inuit spent most of the winter in semisubterranean houses made of driftwood and whalebone and only used the igloo when travelling.

The semisubterranean walls of these furnaces were lined with refractory bricks and had bottoms made of refractory clay.

They had plenty of food stored, and busied themselves with their usual winter diversions, snug and secure inside their semisubterranean longhouse.

A major change in the occupation of the region began about 3000 years ago, with the introduction of semisubterranean pit houses from the Columbia Plateau to the south.

It was the home of a thousand ancient Puebloans and now holds the world's only reconstructed great kiva, a semisubterranean room that can be compared to a modern church.

Ipiutak is the most striking culture of the Norton tradition, taking its name from a site near Point Hope that contained over 60 semisubterranean houses and a cemetery.

They, like their Interior Salish neighbours, generally lived in semisubterranean dwellings (pit houses) during the winter and in tule-mat lodges at other times of the year.

The system of direct exposure to fire within the confines of a small, often semisubterranean, structure was prevalent in northern Alaska, California and parts of Mesoamerica.

The tersely named, semisubterranean Bid provides customers at Sotheby's two things they need desperately, real food and prices that cannot be changed with the wave of a paddle.

In both the prehistoric and historic periods, the Beothuk dwelt in bark- or skin-covered tents in summer and in semisubterranean houses during the cold months.

Outside, Attaroa was sitting on a fur-covered seat on a raised platform of earth, which had been dug from the floor of the large semisubterranean earthlodge just behind her.

As Talut of the Mammoth Hunters continued describing the construction of the semisubterranean earthlodge, Ayla and Jondalar became even more impressed.

The adaptive strategies are based on the development of a deciduous semisubterranean life form primarily for the avoidance of drought, herbivores, and other environmental hazards, as well as nutrient shortage.

What animated Q.T. and his celebrated milieu was the creative embracing of displacement, of being "off" - the ardent cultivation of singularity in a semisubterranean community of the fellow fabulous.

Rather than a single large, sod-covered, semisubterranean longhouse that Ayla had likened to a cave or even a human-sized burrow, in this Camp several individual round lodges were clustered together on the terrace.

Twenty-five radiocarbon dates show that pithouses occurred early (ca. 3200 cal BC), the semisubterranean structure is intermediate, and above ground prepared floor structures occurred later (ca. 1400 cal BC).

They moved through a series of semisubterranean bunkers under what had been a large building of Karnthnerton's outskirts, past chambers where Marines and Deathstriders, with a fine lack of distinction, were emerging from their armor.