Editing Neolithic architecture (section)

==Housing==
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File:Catal Hüyük Restoration B.jpg|The interior of a reconstructed [[Çatalhöyük]] house

Trypillian house2.jpg|Pottery miniature of a [[Cucuteni-Trypillian culture|Cucuteni-Trypillian]] house

Cucuteni MNIR IMG 7622.JPG|Miniature of a regular Cucuteni-Trypillian house, full of ceramic vessels

AMK - Linearbandkeramik Modell Hienheim 3.jpg|Reconstruction of a settlement of the [[Linear Pottery culture]], 5th millennium BC, in the Archaeological Museum of Kelheim (Lower [[Bavaria]], Germany)
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The Neolithic people in the [[Levant]], [[Anatolia]], [[Syria]], northern [[Mesopotamia]] and central Asia were great builders, utilising [[mud-brick]] to construct houses and villages. At [[Çatalhöyük]], houses were plastered and painted with elaborate scenes of humans and animals.

In Europe, the [[Neolithic long house]] with a timber frame, pitched, [[thatching|thatched roof]], and walls finished in [[wattle and daub]] could be very large, presumably housing a whole extended family.  Villages might comprise only a few such houses.

Neolithic [[pile dwelling]]s have been excavated in Sweden ([[Alvastra pile dwelling]]) and in the circum-Alpine area, with remains being found at the [[Mondsee (lake)|Mondsee]] and [[Attersee (lake)|Attersee]] lakes in [[Upper Austria]]. Early [[archeology|archaeologists]] like [[Ferdinand Keller (antiquity scholar)|Ferdinand Keller]] thought they formed artificial islands, much like the Scottish [[crannog]]s, but today it is clear that the majority of settlements was located on the shores of lakes and were only inundated later on. Reconstructed pile dwellings are shown in [[open-air museum]]s in [[Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen|Unteruhldingen]] and [[Zürich]] (Pfahlbauland).{{citation needed|date=January 2013}}

In Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine, Neolithic settlements included wattle-and-daub structures with thatched roofs and floors made of logs covered in clay.<ref>Gheorghiu, D. (2010). The technology of building in Chalcolithic southeastern Europe, pp. 95–100. In Gheorghiu, D. (ed.), ''Neolithic and Chalcolithic Architecture in Eurasia: Building Techniques and Spatial Organisation. Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4–9 September 2006) / Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4–9 Septembre 2006)'', Vol 48, Session C35, BAR International Series 2097, Archaeopress, Oxford.</ref> This is also when the [[burdei]] [[pit-house]] (below-ground) style of house construction was developed, which was still used by Romanians and Ukrainians until the 20th century.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}}

Neolithic [[List of archaeological sites|settlements and "cities"]] include:
* [[Göbekli Tepe]] in Turkey, ca. 9,000 BC
* [[Tell es-Sultan]] (Jericho) in the Levant, Neolithic from around 8,350 BC, arising from the earlier [[Epipaleolithic]] [[Natufian culture]]
* [[Nevali Cori]] in Turkey, ca. 8,000 BC
* [[Çatalhöyük]] in [[Turkey]], 7,500 BC
* [[Mehrgarh]] in [[Pakistan]], 7,000 BC
* [[Knap of Howar]] and [[Skara Brae]], the [[Orkney Islands]], [[Prehistoric Scotland|Scotland]], from 3,500 BC
* over 3,000 settlements of the [[Cucuteni-Trypillian culture]], some with populations up to 15,000 residents, flourished in present-day [[Romania]], [[Moldova]] and [[Ukraine]] from 5,400 to 2,800 BC.