For once, let us take it to be a very large thing, a generic term. On Adam's House Adam's hut 14 - this never really entered the cultural anthropological discussion. The results of this survey have been published elsewhere. Here we will only mention some of its most important aspects, namely those which support the following theoretical concepts. The constructive techniques of primates are very differentiated.
Nestbuilding behaviour is also extremely important in quantitative terms.
All three species of the higher apes are nomadic. They build themselves new nests every night. If all the nests built by one individual during his roughly 40 years of life were piled on top of each other, the result would be a tower about 16 times the height of the Eiffel-Tower. The nest prevents them from falling down. Socially too the nest is important.