Log cabins are ubiquitous in the history of the United States. Accounts of log structures date back to antiquity. One early mention of log construction was from the Roman author Vitruvius who wrote a multi-volume work called De architectura. See Wikipedia: Vitruvius. Here is a short summary of the history from Wikipedia: Log cabin.
Construction with logs was described by Roman architect Vitruvius Pollio in his architectural treatise De Architectura. He noted that in Pontus (modern-day northeastern Turkey), dwellings were constructed by laying logs horizontally overtop of each other and filling in the gaps with "chips and mud".
Historically log cabin construction has its roots in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Although their origin is uncertain, the first log structures were probably being built in Northern Europe by the Bronze Age (about 3500 BC).The image above shows a detail of a log cabin built in Utah Valley, Utah in the late 1800s. You can see that the method of construction had changed little from ancient times. This particular cabin was made by simply piling the logs up since there are no notches in the logs to secure them together.
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