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Mr Ambekar says that portions of an earthen rampart believed to have been built by the region's first settlers exists even today.

In addition to the fireproof qualities of building with earthen materials, adobes have other strong characteristics that strengthen the argument for reintroducing them into the city’s architectural fold.

CalEarth hasn’t just pioneered this form of earthen architecture — it has gone to great lengths to make sure the structures have the qualifications they need to become viable living units.

Many of the celebratory foods are cooked in a "pib" which is the traditional earthen oven dug in the ground and lined with rocks and coals.

It’s a Gothic, environmental take on heredity as well as inheritance, with one of the Haddesley daughters, Wenna, challenging both as human and earthen secrets bubble to the surface.