Neolithic peoples in the Levant, Anatolia, Syria, northern Mesopotamia and Central Asia were also accomplished builders, utilizing mud-brick to construct houses and villages. At Çatal höyük, houses were plastered and painted with elaborate scenes of humans and animals. In Europe, long houses built from wattle and daub were constructed. Elaborate tombs were built for the dead. These tombs are particularly numerous in Ireland, where there are many thousand 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. It was also important to figure out ways of preserving food for future months, such as fashioning relatively airtight containers, and using substances like salt as preservatives. COUNT 5
QSN1 What did Neolithic people use mud-brick to build? ANS1 houses and villages QSN2 What scenes did the paintings on homes depict? ANS2 humans and animals QSN3 What were European homes constructed from? ANS3 wattle and daub QSN4 What types of sites were built for the deceased? ANS4 Elaborate tombs QSN5 Where do thousands of early tombs still exist? ANS5 Ireland