Primitive Shelter for 13 People, Stone Tools, Thatched

As a part of the Origins long term program at Roots School students used stone tools they created to build this shelter. They then lived in it for a week using all stone age tools and eating food they harvested. The inner structure is all hardwood, then the rafters switch to conifers. It is thatched with cattail and fragmities. We cheated and used machine processed cordage for the thatching lashing because the students have lives and jobs and whatnot. In the past we have u