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   * **[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_house|Spring Houses]]/Cold Houses** - Spring Houses are small single room structures built over a spring, to keep the water clean and sometimes to [[https://www.harvardshakers.com/shaker-spring.html|channel some of it into an outflow pipe]] to provide running water downhill. The chill from the spring could be used to preserve food, so some spring houses were built to keep animals out. A Cold House is a perhaps regional term for a [[https://naturalbuildingblog.com/some-history-of-springhouses/|similar small stone building]] built over a flowing stream instead of a spring, used for food preservation, usually milk. (a [[https://www.reddit.com/r/homestead/comments/19big3b/not_sure_what_this_is/|couple]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/12zc7xi/what_is_this_building_a_little_hut_in_the_woods/|examples]]).   * **[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_house|Spring Houses]]/Cold Houses** - Spring Houses are small single room structures built over a spring, to keep the water clean and sometimes to [[https://www.harvardshakers.com/shaker-spring.html|channel some of it into an outflow pipe]] to provide running water downhill. The chill from the spring could be used to preserve food, so some spring houses were built to keep animals out. A Cold House is a perhaps regional term for a [[https://naturalbuildingblog.com/some-history-of-springhouses/|similar small stone building]] built over a flowing stream instead of a spring, used for food preservation, usually milk. (a [[https://www.reddit.com/r/homestead/comments/19big3b/not_sure_what_this_is/|couple]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/12zc7xi/what_is_this_building_a_little_hut_in_the_woods/|examples]]).
   * **[[https://historicsoduspoint.com/commerce/ice-harvesting/|The Ice Harvest]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_house_(building)|Ice Houses]]** - Sometimes called the Winter Crop, blocks of ice cut from freshwater lakes and ponds were an important export from cold regions before refrigeration. Ice was cut and stored in Ice Houses (small sometimes-buried structures shaded by trees) where it was covered with sawdust to insulate it into the summer, or sold abroad, transported by wagon, train, and ship.   * **[[https://historicsoduspoint.com/commerce/ice-harvesting/|The Ice Harvest]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_house_(building)|Ice Houses]]** - Sometimes called the Winter Crop, blocks of ice cut from freshwater lakes and ponds were an important export from cold regions before refrigeration. Ice was cut and stored in Ice Houses (small sometimes-buried structures shaded by trees) where it was covered with sawdust to insulate it into the summer, or sold abroad, transported by wagon, train, and ship.
-  * For a much older, more permanent and insulated ice house design check out the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l|Yakhchāl]] from Iran. The design seemes to rely pretty heavily on evaporative cooling and the low humidity of the region and could even produce ice. +  * For a much older, more permanent and insulated ice house design check out the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l|Yakhchāl]] from Iran. The design seems to rely pretty heavily on evaporative cooling and the low humidity of the region and could even //produce// ice. 
   * **[[Fermented foods]]**   * **[[Fermented foods]]**
 +  * **[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_butter|Bog Butter]]** - This is an ancient practice of burying animal fat or butter in wooden vessels in bogs in order to use the low temperature, low oxygen, highly acidic environments of the bog to preserve it (or to hide it). The linked Wikipedia page also references other foods which are buried to preserve or prepare. 
  
 === Moving and Using Water === === Moving and Using Water ===
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 === Transit === === Transit ===
  
-The first  +The [[https://humantransit.org/2024/12/one-of-the-greatest-inventions-in-the-history-of-human-transport.html|first Fixed Route Public Transport network]] was a series of horse drawn carriages traversing carefully selected routes on a frequent schedule in Paris (ferries operated in a similar way earlier but this was the first planned system I could find that deliberately set out to operate this way). It started up surprisingly late in human history in 1662 but the prerequisite technologies were horse-drawn carriages and the idea itself, so it's not unrealistic to move the timeline up if your setting needs it. 
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-https://humantransit.org/2024/12/one-of-the-greatest-inventions-in-the-history-of-human-transport.html+
  
 +In a way, the idea of the structured system of independent drivers operating on planned routes is itself a technology which can fit any vehicle such as water taxis, or [[https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/how-to-downsize-a-transport-network-the-chinese-wheelbarrow/|Chinese wheelbarrows]].