Ken Follett

And that, of course, you look at the way people make their living and stay alive, and that tells you a bit about what culture they must have.

So they must have had something of a sharing culture if they were herdsmen.

And of course, the farmers did not have to have that.

as it's easy to demark, you know, my cornfield and my pasture and so on.

Farmers sometimes have some things in common, but generally speaking, they know what's theirs.

So there are probably two different cultures there.

One that's quite egotistical and sort of self-oriented and one that's much more communal.

Well, of course, the houses were made of things like wattle and daub and thatch and turf.

And so none of them survive.

All we have is post holes.

It's amazing, really, because post hole is a place where there used to be a pretty sturdy stake planted in the ground.

And it would be one of four or more that were holding the roof up.

Of course, even the wood has long ago rotted away.

But that space, that cylinder of earth where the wood used to be is different in character from the earth all around it.

And archaeologists are very clever people.

And they find these post holes and they'll find four at the corners of a rectangle or maybe six.

and then no more for a few feet.

So they say, okay, this was a house, they say.

Now, I think that's pretty smart of them.

And if there are six post holes that are in a rectangle, then it's a bigger house.