Editing Neolithic architecture (section)

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[[File:Orkney Skara Brae.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Excavated dwellings at [[Skara Brae]]]]
'''Neolithic architecture''' refers to structures encompassing housing and shelter from approximately 10,000 to 2,000 BC, the [[Neolithic period]]. In southwest Asia, Neolithic cultures appear soon after 10,000 BC, initially in the [[Levant]] ([[Pre-Pottery Neolithic A]] and [[Pre-Pottery Neolithic B]]) and from there into the east and west. Early Neolithic structures and buildings can be found in southeast Anatolia, Syria, and Iraq by 8,000 BC with [[agriculture]] societies first appearing in southeast Europe by 6,500 BC, and central Europe by ca. 5,500 BC (of which the earliest cultural complexes include the  [[Kőrös culture|Starčevo-Koros (Cris)]], [[Linearbandkeramic]], and [[Vinca culture|Vinča]].{{citation needed|date=January 2013}}

Architectural advances are an important part of the [[Neolithic]] period (10,000-2000 BC), during which some of the major innovations of human history occurred. The domestication of plants and animals, for example, led to both new economics and a new relationship between people and the world, an increase in community size and permanence, a massive development of material culture, and new social and ritual solutions to enable people to live together in these communities. New styles of individual structures and their combination into settlements provided the buildings required for the new lifestyle and economy, and were also an essential element of change.<ref name="Architecture The Whole Story">{{cite book|last1=Richard Rogers, Philip Gumuchdjian, Denna Jones, and other people|title=Architecture The Whole Story|date=2014|publisher=Thames & Hudson|isbn=978-0-500-29148-1|page=148 & 149|url=|language=en}}</ref>