Meanings
plural housefloors
- alternativeAlternative form of house floor.
A significant event is taking place in housefloor construction as Rackham Harding Precast, […]
1984, in Concrete (journal of the Concrete Society), volume 182 more examples
Most are simple interments of a single infant or child, some buried with one or more ceramic vessels, and most burials are located in domestic contexts, either in midden areas or else under the housefloor.
1992, Michael Ernest Smith, Archaeological Research at Aztec-period Rural Sites in Morelos, page 253For example, in our Area A excavations we recovered a well-preserved housefloor with numerous postmolds atop a housemound 1 m high; the roofed-over floor space measured 6.2 m by 4.5 m or 27.9 square meters. By contrast, our Area D excavations exposed a housefloor with postmolds on a housemound just 55 centimeters in height; […]
2003, Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, John W. Fox, Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World, page 39
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