Yurts and other tents used by nomadic peoples

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― anthony, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yurts surely classic. according to the picture in my Osbourne History of the World book the chiefs had wheels on theirs, and were pulled by horses.

― m jemmeson, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yurts and Gers have vertical sides so more usable space for given radius. Teepees go up quicker.

yurts have a centre pole gers no centre pole. both a central asian but one is more mongolian the other turkic. can't remember which way round.

More ad hoc structures such as benders, used by early europeans (I'm quite good a making these). hazel poles are driven into the ground around a circle and bent together and lashed in the centre. willow and thinner piece of hazel are woven inbto the side to add strength. It can then be covered wither with skins, tarp, plastic or levaes. (obviously our bronze age nomad would not have had the plastic or tarp)

I've also seen a variation on the bender in nepal tube shaped, used for summer housing close to summer pastures, covered with bamboo matting in the summer and left as just a framework in the winter.

beduoin have light airy pole supported tents. rectangular with several poles held in check with guy ropes. much less elegant but probably more suited to desert conditions and much less weight to carry around. (ancient mongols used oxen to haul wagons with there tents, sometimes erected on great wagons)

― Ed, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

here are some links and pics

erecting a ger

a better description of a arab tent

more yurts

― Ed, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

erecting a ger

― Ed, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I will get this right

― Ed, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

wherre i come from we have no tee pee

― Geoff, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yurts are fucking trash. The Hampshire College radio station, which is never even on air (thank god), is housed in a yurt.

― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally C is a ger, which is an unhappy thing to be today. His status as yurt or otherwise is unknowable to me. Madchen?

― Tim, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the fact that ed is a portable tent pedant is so undeniably cool

― anthony, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I probably spend about a month and a half a year either living in them or fixing them. Missed out on a great teepee building experiment by being in Italy:-(

― Ed, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

come the nuclear winter and the break down of civilization as we know it Ed is going to be a pretty damn useful bloke to know!

― chris, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My cousin has a friend who lives in a yurt on a vegetable allotment somewhere in Brighton

What about wigwams?

― Nick, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

wigwams and hogans were permanat and dome shaped.Do not quailfy for this thread ! Now you could make an arguement for igloos

― anthony, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I make an argument for igloos.

― Nick, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

really nick you cannot just say you are making hte argument you have to make it.

― anthony, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I would argue with that.

― Nick, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

that's still not an argument for igloos, sir.

― Maria, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pup tents.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I slept in a tent last night and It was hellish. I love beds and houses

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the ground is where its at

― Ed, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 May 2004 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

CRAZY FOR YURTS!

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 May 2004 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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