How old is the oldest building in the town you live in?
To those from the Western hemisphere, it’s always fascinating to hear that some homes and businesses from the times of the Greek philosophers still have inhabitants, and then you remember that the Western hemisphere is itself not without its own examples, for example some Mexican villages still have temples from the times of the Mayans.
1310 it’s a small house (max. 10m wide) in the town centre. Today it’s part of the library of the University hosting different exhibitions. It’s called Günter Grass Archiv in Göttingen, Germany.
Normal people houses don’t survive much longer that 500-600 years bc on fire and bombing, but town hall, temple, fort, palace and other administration building can be much much older.
My dad lives in a house that the oldest rooms date from around 500 years ago lol. It would be very had to tell by just looking at the house, since it’s been updated and expanded over the centuries.
We don’t even know if it really is that old, but from figuring it out from some renovations and the position in the town, it’s a good guess.
I live in the western hemisphere, but a church…Late 1200s.
There was a shop, but that was allowed to fall in to disrepair, as the heritage order on it meant it couldn’t be changed, that was built around 1600s and knocked down a few years ago.
If you’re talking white people, technically cooks cottage (built 30 years before the first fleet) but it was brought over and reassembled in the 1930’s lol
Indigenous, probably the eel traps / farming system. That’s 9,000 years old iirc
Or if you’re up in the top end, there’s Nawarla Gabarnmung which dates to about 44kya. Some natural rock pillars in the shelter, others modified and others still constructed or relocated.
Budj Bim eel farm and accompanying stone huts. Massive aquaculture farm / village the Gunditjmara people built that not only secured their own food supply, but is so large and effective for trade the term ‘industrial level’ has been used
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