Tristan Hughes

But it almost sounds a bit like, dare I say, going too much into medieval territory here, but like a Viking longhouse or something similar to that.

Yeah, yeah.

So it sounds like what you were saying earlier, you've got the summer houses as well and the igloos, but to survive in the archaeology, to be seen today, to be recorded today, do we have more examples of the winter houses surviving because they are more...

they're more sturdy.

They have survived the test of time better.

Oh, yes, no, yeah, protected, you know, in regards to what?

Oh, repaired.

Well, we'll go into hunting then after this, but I'd like to ask one more question on the houses.

In regards to mythology, surviving mythology, do we have archaeological evidence as well to show that these were places of spiritual and ritual belief?

Was there a lot of mythology linked to the houses that they lived in?

Goodness.

Gosh, that is incredible.

I love that fact right there.

I would also point out that if I was sent out to go and hunt up there, I would certainly not return alive.

So thank goodness.

Search and rescue.

I would have to get out there very, very fast.

But that's amazing, that kind of layout of the houses that you can see in the archaeology.

And do you see that all the way back to some of the earliest Tula winter houses that survived?

So you can see that tradition continuing for centuries?