Slavic barns in 1000 AD?
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Topic: Slavic barns in 1000 AD?
Posted By: Svantoretro
Subject: Slavic barns in 1000 AD?
Date Posted: 31-Jul-2011 at 19:23
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Would the Slavs have kept livestock in wooden barns around 1000 A.D.? |
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Posted By: Nick1986
Date Posted: 31-Jul-2011 at 19:41
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Possibly. At that time the typical Slav house was a pit in the ground roofed over. Farmers would share their living quarters with their animals ------------- Me Grimlock not nice Dino! Me bash brains! |
Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 31-Jul-2011 at 20:47
Of course, if wood and small trees were available and they were not blind and stupid. It was done for thousands of years, why would they be different than everyone else? Livestock equaled money! Saving livestock meant the same as saving money. Germans, and I suppose other Europeans (even today) sometimes keep some of their livestock under their homes, maybe it was the same then? Even the baby Jesus was supposedly "laid in a manger", with the livestock, and it was also, reportedly kept under the homes even then! I just report the obvious! Try better or give me a reason to go further? Regards, ------------- http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/ |
Posted By: Centrix Vigilis
Date Posted: 01-Aug-2011 at 00:33
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Then report it civilly Ron...it was an honest and innocuous question and you have given some good info.
Ntl..this is a new member who deserves as much respect as one with 5 years on the board. He is not required to meet your criterion for assistance. For the truth of the matter is you don't have to render it.. commentary or opinion. And certainly not in a caustic fashion that alienates membership potential.
There is no excuse for rudeness. There is no need for statements such as this:
I just report the obvious!
Try better or give me a reason to go further?
All they do is cause disruption and act as a deterrent for future membership participation. Nor are all things obvious for everyone.. which is why the questions are posed. Remember that.
------------- "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" S. T. Friedman Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true' |
Posted By: Yugoslav
Date Posted: 01-Aug-2011 at 21:41
In the lack of time to give a much more detailed and widespread answer - of course, yes. ------------- "I know not with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." |
Posted By: Svantoretro
Date Posted: 01-Aug-2011 at 22:11
Weelllll....I s'pose yur right, 'n all. But nobody had cell phones back then, so how could somebody halfway around the world ring up their Slavic buddy to say, "Yo, man, emailing you a pix of my NEW WOODEN BARN!  Ya gotta get one!
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Posted By: Svantoretro
Date Posted: 01-Aug-2011 at 22:19
| Hey, it's okay, Mod...Ron may just be having a terrible day. A dude never wins these days by losing his cool, and any of us may be subject to being put in check for snapping off like that. "Berserking" is so OUT. But it still happens...except for the shield-biting thing. |
Posted By: Svantoretro
Date Posted: 01-Aug-2011 at 22:26
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Hmm...quite interesting, Nick. So, basically a hole in the ground with boards across the top, eh?
How might the Slavs have retrieved their livestock, such as cattle and horses, from such a hole?
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Posted By: Nick1986
Date Posted: 02-Aug-2011 at 08:17
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The hole wouldn't have been very deep. A horse or cow could easily climb out when needed. To keep warm the Slavs had large ovens similar to the type used in Russia. This early form of central heating had a complex arrangement of pipes and was built to burn fuel for a long time
http://www.ruralia.cz/308-319.pdf - Development of the late medieval house in Hungary http://florida.academia.edu/FlorinCurta/Papers/163355/Pots_Slavs_and_imagined_communities_Slavic_archaeology_and_the_history_of_the_early_Slavs - Pots, Slavs and imagined communities ------------- Me Grimlock not nice Dino! Me bash brains! |
Posted By: red clay
Date Posted: 02-Aug-2011 at 10:35
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In Bamburg Ger. There are examples of houses built approx. 900 AD that were excavated some years back. All of them had animal quarters attached.
Svantoretro, Ron has a habit of stringing bad days into bad weeks and months. I along with quite a few others have gotten very tired of this stuff.
I apologise for his conduct. He just came off of a 30 day vacation, I think he needs another one.
------------- "Arguing with someone who hates you or your ideas, is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what move you make, your opponent will walk all over the board and scramble the pieces". Unknown. |
Posted By: Nick1986
Date Posted: 02-Aug-2011 at 18:51
Here's a reconstruction of a Slavic pit-house. On the right is a thatched barn ------------- Me Grimlock not nice Dino! Me bash brains! |
Posted By: Centrix Vigilis
Date Posted: 02-Aug-2011 at 20:31
 ------------- "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" S. T. Friedman Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true' |
Posted By: Mosquito
Date Posted: 03-Aug-2011 at 15:49
and this is a classic example of post made for raising post counter - as well as my comment here  ------------- "I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman, without a single drop of bad blood, certainly not German blood" - Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: Centrix Vigilis
Date Posted: 03-Aug-2011 at 16:46
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Actually it's a classic example of sending out approval without the necessity for superfluous or addtional and unecessary comment. Been used on blog sites and forums for years.....perhaps you might worry about that.. before you consider trolling me again.
As yours above was just that. And you have been around long enough to know where the hammer falls on trolls..as such no further warning is necessary...tho i'll give ya one anyway.
As my post count was neither in question nor germaine. And had neither bearing nor context to the op and thread.
You do it again and you will be on vacation.
Don't believe me? Do it and see.
Trust me. ------------- "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" S. T. Friedman Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true' |
Posted By: Mosquito
Date Posted: 03-Aug-2011 at 18:31
------------- "I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman, without a single drop of bad blood, certainly not German blood" - Friedrich Nietzsche |