They were built of massive timber posts chinked with wattle and daub mortar. Tents and wattle and daub huts preceded more substantial structures. The walls were constructed using the wattle and daub technique. Today, they live in unpretentious huts of wattle, daub and thatch. The barrack blocks each measured and were built using wattle and daub. The inhabitants lived in wattle and daub houses. The frame was usually filled with wattle and daub but occasionally with brick. The other houses seem to have had simple wattle and daub walls. Jacal construction is similar to wattle and daub. Bajarreque is a wall constructed with the technique of wattle and daub. The wattle and daub technique was used already in the Neolithic period. Four rectangular rooms, constructed from wattle and daub, lie around a courtyard. Wattle and daub is one of the oldest building techniques. In Europe, long houses built from wattle and daub were constructed. Very few 19th-century houses of wattle and daub or split timber have survived.