I'm puzzled. houses were built during the little ice age?

Question

i was watching an episode of Time Team, not something i normally watch but it was on, anyway they were digging up a house that was built during the little ice age period, and i don't understand how it would have been possible to do it.

Answer 1

The whole of the World wasn't covered feet deep all over so it was possible in the warmer parts to access rocks which could be moved, broken and heaped to make shelters.  Perhaps covered with animal skins - a mammoth hide would provide quite a substantial roof.

The caves in Spain were well inhabited  though with the fronts covered by skins; during the summer months it is thought that clans met up in summer camps taking hide "tents" with them.

Answer 2

We've had ice 6 feet thick on lakes in Maine in my lifetime, but the summers are somewhat warm.   London has been a growing city for nearly 1000 years, so the little ice age didn't shut the whole place down and make everyone move south.   Life might have been a little harder, but if you have no choice you live with what you're dealt.

Answer 3

with tools and supplies......just because we weren't as advanced as we are now doesn't mean we were completely retarded

Answer 4

Tee Pee. duh !

Answer 5

I guess I would have to watch the show.  Maybe the little ice age 300-400 years ago had some warmer months.  People still built houses to live in.

Answer 6

brilliant question - could time team have got it wrong? I didn't see the show, but I've seen some of their other ones and they seem to speculate massively about what homes looked like. This is a puzzle. If it was a true ice-age then it would be impossible, so it must have been either on the margins or during the end of the age when it was warming up.

Answer 7

what? it was just a little colder than today, they still had seasons, there weren't continental ice glaciers

Answer 8

Veronica, Mammoths went extinct ages ago... they didnt have mammoth hides ^ ^

Answer 9

I think they must have used fires to warm up the ground and themselves.

A lot of stone was "Robbed out" from other sites and used.  The early recycling of valuable resources aye?