Well,
this prolly sounds like a "canned" opener at this point from me these days but it is ever true:
I have missed yuns here on the board but I have been at it being vigilant & diligent learning skills.
I was part of a "Wattle & Daub" primitive building workshop. I have been researching long term building techniques for the primitive living enviorn/scenario.
I'm pretty well convinced that when you factor in labor, materials, long term stability, insulation, maintenance, etc. that "Wattle & Daub" is where it's at for primitive building for the bulk of the US forested environments.
In the following photographs I was involved with making 3/4 walls to wall-in a outdoor kitchen for wildabundance.net.
However I have hung out and lived short term in tight, water proof & WARM wattle and daub shelters complete with bark (peeled Poplar Bark in my area) roofs. A central fire pit in the center, burning kindling (nothing bigger) provides a warm smokeless fire, light and cooking. Hides over the doors/windows keeps the cold out.
Here's pics from the class where we made 3/4 walls but obviously full walls are the same....
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There's a good bit of Wattle & Daub info on the net but here is a starter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_and_daub
For those who are curious our wattle was Maple, Privet & Pine saplings and our daub was a mixture of local clay, creek sand and chopped up native grasses, which we ran low on and switched to deciduous leaves which worked fine.
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