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Neolithic people in Western Asia and Europe constructed elaborate buildings using materials like mud-brick, wattle and daub. In areas like Çatalhöyük and Malta, houses and temples were painted with artistic scenes and used for religious worship. Graves and tombs were also built, particularly in Ireland where thousands from the period still remain today. Structures like long barrows, chamber tombs, causewayed camps and henges were erected by Neolithic groups in the British Isles.

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Architecture

Neolithic people in Western Asia and Europe constructed elaborate buildings using materials like mud-brick, wattle and daub. In areas like Çatalhöyük and Malta, houses and temples were painted with artistic scenes and used for religious worship. Graves and tombs were also built, particularly in Ireland where thousands from the period still remain today. Structures like long barrows, chamber tombs, causewayed camps and henges were erected by Neolithic groups in the British Isles.

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The Neolithic people in the Levant, Anatolia, Syria, northern Mesopotamia and Central Asia were

great builders, utilizing mud-brick to construct houses and villages. At Çatalhöyük, houses were
plastered and painted with elaborate scenes of humans and animals. The Mediterranean Neolithic
cultures of Malta worshiped in megalithic temples.
In Europe, long houses built from wattle and daub were constructed. Elaborate tombs for the dead
were also built. These tombs are particularly numerous in Ireland, where there are many thousands
still in existence. Neolithic people in the British Isles built long barrows and chamber tombs for their
dead and causewayed camps, henges flint mines and cursus monuments.

Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, founded in 10th millennium BC and abandoned in 8th millennium BC


 

Pottery miniature of a Cucuteni-Trypillian house


 

Miniature of a regular Cucuteni-Trypillian house, full of ceramic vessels


 

Excavated dwellings at Skara Brae (Mainland, Orkney, Scotland, UK)

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