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first saunas - Defining the first sauna is a difficult
task, because there is no clear definition of what a sauna is.
Does a hot room suffice, or is water thrown on hot rocks an
essential ingredient? If we only accept places that were used
solely for washing, we must discard many recent saunas as well.
The nomad people wandering around what later became Finland
already had primitive saunas. They heated holes in the ground
and covered them with a tarp to have a warm place for bathing.
There was probably an open fire in the hole, and the bathers
would wait until the fire had gone before entering the sauna.
The native American sweat lodge is very similar to this kind
of sauna. Such a hot room would later evolve into the smoke
sauna, the most traditional form of modern saunas. A smoke sauna
has a fireplace with no chimney; the fire heats the stones directly
and the smoke exits the room through a small hole just below
the roof. The fireplace is built by piling stones, ideally without
using mortar, and takes several hours to warm up. Smoke saunas
were built and used as late as the 1920's, after which they
almost disappeared as new types of heaters were developed.
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