When did folks begin constructing homes with corners?
Rectangular buildings turned frequent from about 10,000 years in the past, as seen on this reconstruction of the traditional metropolis of Çatalhöyük in Turkey
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Buildings with corners have a a lot deeper historical past than we thought, including an surprising twist to a curious architectural thriller from the daybreak of village life.
Archaeologists have lengthy been conscious of a worldwide development in early structure. From south-west Asia to the Americas, the very earliest settlements sometimes contained buildings with a spherical or oval-shaped floor plan. Then, often a couple of thousand years later, these apparently went out of style, turning into…
