traveling village
Defences
River villages are surrounded by large areas of tended trees that form a barrier between the houses and the wild forest surrounding them. Without such a barrier, the exiled women use pipe tree and spears to build palisades from which they can pull a weapon at any time that they might need it.
Architecture
The traveling huts are made to be assembled quickly. The pipe tree framework is carried lashed in its proper configuration, then opened out and stabilized with cross-pieces. A single hut is a third the footprint of a typical house, with roofs of overlapping leaves instead of reed thatching. Four or five can sleep in a single hut, in hammocks suspended between a central support and the hut's outer frame. They unhook the netting during the day to open the space for daily tasks.
Geography
The village is always set up near a stream, in as level an area as possible. The women try to avoid having to clear trees, which means the huts are more separated than village houses tend to be.
Natural Resources
The women raise three-berry while they are settled in for the rainy season, supplemented by hunting and fishing and gathering food. Because the village is in wild forest, gatherers have to range farther and be more careful about what they bring back.
Type
Camp, Temporary
Population
Around 100, twice as many women as boys.
View from the Future
20 yearsOnce the women settled in their permanent village, the concept of portable huts was abandoned. 12000 years, The Ocean
In modern times, Aktergean lumber mining camps such as Third Wedge Camp are similarly mobile, packed up and carried to the next lower tier as the miners finish working each cut.
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