Long house – Earliest Permanent House Buildings

The long house or longhouse is the earliest form of recognizable, permanent structure used for dwellings, in many parts of the world including Asia, Europe and North America. The building form usually composed of a long and narrow single room built from timber. The genre of accommodation was most common among certain Native American, Polynesian, European and Indonesian cultures.

The different types of the communal dwellings include the Neolithic long house of Europe, the Medieval Dartmoor longhouse and the Native American long house.

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