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through the thatch, fumigates the building, protecting it against insect infestations such as
termites.
Sometimes the huts are shared: the right side
for the family, the left for the animals. Live-
stock are not only protected from predators,
but in some regions they also provide central
heating!
Recent evidence from French archaeologists work-
ing in Lalibela suggests that the churches of Lali-
bela were not built in a very short time period as
has long been thought but rather over a period of
several hundred years.
