TALLINN - Five students from Estonia, who have abandoned modern conveniences for a week in a replica wooden hut built on the site of an ancient hill fort, have discovered that Iron Age living conditions were mainly cold, dark and smoky, reports Reuters. “You can’t heat and be in the building and after dark there is no light,” said Kristiina Paavel, 24, one of the students.“We tried the old method of burning a cinder of wood for light, but it gave off too much smoke, so we will just go to sleep earlier tonight,” she said.Dressed in layers of dark wool...
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