• Question: Who invented houses?

    Asked by emmagrace to Dalya, Derek, Sarah, Tim, Tom on 21 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Tim Millar

      Tim Millar answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      I think they just became a good way to settle in one area. Early family grouos might travel to find food, when we settled down to farm the land, it was probably a good idea to make a more permanent plce to stay. So farming is around 8000 years old, so someone who lived then probably had a bright idea.

    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      I’m sorry Emma, I have no idea who invented houses! 🙂

    • Photo: Derek McKay-Bukowski

      Derek McKay-Bukowski answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      I don’t really know. There was probably no one person who invented them. Perhaps the first houses were really just tents. As time went on, these became more and more elaborate, with more and more timber, until they were permanent? And do you count a cave as a house?

    • Photo: Tom Crick

      Tom Crick answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      I think houses, or dwelling designed for human habitation, have been around for many thousands of years, so it is very hard to say who invented them! They probably developed from more simple structures that people used to live in.

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