Primitive Building

[grymhild]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73REgj-3UE

not bad for 20,000 gp. . .

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[Tantive]

He has a whole series of videos that I just kept on watching. Its great.

[Aspect of Sorrow]

He has a whole series of videos that I just kept on watching. Its great.

Likewise, thought the clay floor warmth ducting was a good idea to expand on.

[AlwaysSummer Day]

He has a whole series of videos that I just kept on watching. Its great.

Likewise, thought the clay floor warmth ducting was a good idea to expand on.

The romans developed it iirc. They used it extensively to heat palaces, bath houses, and assorted other buildings that mostly wealthy people used. The sheer fuel requirement would have made it wayyyy to high maintenance for a commoner. A fireplace is much more efficient and whenever that fire isn't going cold air and water will settle there.

An interesting thing I read once was that the ancient civilizations all popped up in lands nearer the equator partially because adobe was possible in these low precipitation climates.

[Tsidkenu]

The romans developed it iirc. They used it extensively to heat palaces, bath houses, and assorted other buildings that mostly wealthy people used. The sheer fuel requirement would have made it wayyyy to high maintenance for a commoner.

I guess the Romans ought to have caught up with the times.

[AlwaysSummer Day]

The romans developed it iirc. They used it extensively to heat palaces, bath houses, and assorted other buildings that mostly wealthy people used. The sheer fuel requirement would have made it wayyyy to high maintenance for a commoner.

I guess the Romans ought to have caught up with the times.

The system of heating an entire room first emerged in the mid-13th century

A full thousand years after roman decline

[Tsidkenu]

My point was that alternative technologies for room heating existed outside of 'the West' and of reasonably comparable antiquity (actually, additional research into archaeological evidence of ondol usage places them as far back as the 10th century BCE). The West is not always the best, you know

[AlwaysSummer Day]

Never said it was. In fact if you read my first post it even mentioned how equatorial civilizations contributed vastly to architecture long before civilization even rose in the west (or East for that matter).

Edit: A simple wiki search shows these may have existed in Pakistan before 2,000 BC.