People in the Amazon rainforest often live ... Sometimes, people build wooden houses beside lakes, rivers, or coastal areas on stilts. This helps protect them from floods and high tides.

As told toJeremy Berlin and Yann Gross 7 min read In Tipishca, Peru—a rainy, remote village near the Curaray River—houses are built on stilts to ... s voyage down the Amazon River in the ...

Large circular wooden houses built on stilts collapsed in a dramatic fire 3,000 years ago and plunged into a river, preserving their contents in astonishing detail. Archaeologists say the excavations ...