Editing Longhouse (section)

{{Short description|Communal, narrow, single-room building}}
{{See also|Housebarn|Byre-dwelling}}
{{About|the communal dwelling|longhouses as a toilet|Outhouse|the religious movement|Longhouse Religion}}
[[File:Moa-4.jpg|thumb|A North American [[Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast|Pacific Northwest Coast]]-style longhouse at the [[Museum of Anthropology at UBC|Museum of Anthropology]] at the [[University of British Columbia]]]]
A '''longhouse''' or '''long house''' is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building for communal dwelling. It has been built in various parts of the world including [[Asia]], [[Europe]], and [[North America]].

Many were built from [[lumber|timber]] and often represent the earliest form of permanent structure in many cultures. Types include the [[Neolithic long house]] of Europe, the Norman Medieval Longhouses that evolved in Western Britain (''Tŷ Hir'') and Northern France (''[[Longère]]''), and the [[Longhouses of the indigenous peoples of North America|various types of longhouse]] built by different cultures among the [[indigenous peoples of the Americas]].