Buildings such as huts and longhouses have been used for living since the late Neolithic. The camps consisted of teepee-like longhouses built with hides and bark. Within the villages the inhabitants lived in longhouses. Numerous villages populated the territory, with each village holding many longhouses. They were a matriarchial society that lived in stockaded villages of large longhouses. The Oral Asal of East Malaysia live in longhouses and water villages. This led to the development of villages centred around longhouses. A similar design can be found in the Iroquois longhouses of North America. These longhouses had cedar-plank walls. Conestoga people lived in longhouses like the Haudenosaunee did. Their settlements included longhouses and boat-topped temporary or seasonal houses. When it began, the natives built their traditional longhouses for residences. They were wealthy and owned large estates with huge longhouses, horses and many thralls. Rumah Bundong is one of the oldest longhouses in Kapit. The typical village had 900 to 1,600 people organized into 30 or 40 longhouses.