This is one reason for suggesting that the community was fairly short-lived. The only clues come from the circulation pattern, areas too large to be roofed easily, or perhaps from wider than usual doorways. The houses are typically provided with wall niches for storage, though the number of niches varies widely, and in badly ruined walls the niches may of course be totally lost. Benches are another characteristic, built-in feature of the houses. They are generally made of a row of slabs set upright and apparently filled with sand and small stones.
Several buildings have outside benches as well.
Hearths are so far surprisingly uncommon, perhaps four noted to date, even though it gets cold in the desert during the winter. Fuel was probably scarce, and winds have blown away most of the surface ash, but nonetheless, we would expect more hearths. Building 14 has a stone-lined basin or trough of unknown function. In any case, only one crushing stone so far has been found in situ, a threshold block in B17. The trash heaps, located immediately adjacent to each house or group of houses or else dumped up on the slopes behind them, are an opportunity to investigate deposition patterns of a specific house or group of houses without much, if any, of the reworking, pitting, clearance, or redeposition usual on long-lived sites.