Neolithic architecture is the architecture of the Neolithic period.
Neolithic
(also known as the New Stone Age) [7000 - 3000 B.C.] cave dwelling, wattle and daub simple dwelling construction combined with timber and huge erected stones (megaliths) like Stonehenge.
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Neolithic period: the period from 7000 till 3000 BC affected mainly the central landmass of Greece in the region known as Thessaly. The people grew crops and raised animals and by 3000 BC they were living in settlements with streets and houses.
They occur in the earliest farming communities in Anatolia in the sixth millennium BC and as major motifs in pottery decoration throughout Neolithic Europe.
Nevertheless, Jordan has one of the longest and richest archaeological sequences in the Middle East, which is reflected in architecture such as the 9,000-year-old Neolithic houses of Beidha.
The first inhabitants of the Greek peninsula, who are believed to be Neolithic, built very primitive and basic structures. The houses were mainly built with a circular, oval, apsidal, or rectangular shape.
The use of iconographic symbols in art began as early as 3000 BC, when the Neolithic civilizations of the Middle East used nonhuman or animal figures to represent their gods.
Megalithic tombMassive stone-built Neolithic burial chamber covered by an earth or stone mound.Mercat(Scots): Market.
One of the world's oldest civilizations built mud and plaster homes at Çatalhöyük (which has been spelled Catal Hoyuk, Catal Huyuk, and many other ways) in Neolithic Anatolia. Learn about the prehistoric Çatalhöyük site.
 See also: Architecture, Church, Chamber, Ornament, Roman
  
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