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Sign in to savethumb|A North American Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast|Pacific Northwest Coast-style longhouse at the Museum of Anthropology at the [[University of British Columbia]] A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single or multi-room building for communal dwelling. It has been built in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe, and North America.
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thumb|A North American Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast|Pacific Northwest Coast-style longhouse at the Museum of Anthropology at the [[University of British Columbia]] A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single or multi-room building for communal dwelling. It has been built in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe, and North America.
Many were built from timber and often represent the earliest form of permanent structure in many cultures. Types include the Neolithic long house of Europe, the Norman Medieval Longhouses that evolved in Western Britain (Tŷ Hir) and Northern France (Longère), and the various types of longhouse built by different cultures among the indigenous peoples of the Americas.