Neolithic architecture (Mobius version) (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

Neolithic architecture on Mobius refers to structures encompassing housing and shelter from approximately 10,000 to 2,000 BMCE, the Neolithic period. In southwest Asia, Neolithic cultures appear soon after 10,000 BMCE, 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 Anatola, Syr, and Iraq by 8,000 BMCE with agriculture societies first appearing in southeast Europe by 6,500 BMCE, and central Europe by ca. 5,500 BMCE (of which the earliest cultural complexes include the Starčevo-Koros (Cris), Linearbandkeramic, and Vinča.
Architectural advances are an important part of the Neolithic period (10,000-2000 BMCE), during which some of the major innovations of Mobian 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.
==Housing==
The Neolithic people in the Levant, Anatola, Syr, northern Mesopot and central Yurashia were great builders, utilizing metal to construct houses and villages. At Çatalhöyük, houses were shined and painted with elaborate scenes of Mobians and animals.
In Europa, the Neolithic long house with a netal frame, pitched roof, and walls finished in a sci-fi equivalent to wattle and daub could be very large, presumably housing a whole extended family. Villages might comprise only a few such houses.
Neolithic pile dwellings have been excavated in Swed (Alvastra pile dwelling) and in the circum-Alpine area, with remains being found at the Mondsee and Atersee lakes in Upper Austra. Early archaeologists like Ferdinand Keller thought they formed artificial islands, much like the Scotish crannogs, 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 museums in Unteruhldingen and Zürich (Pfahlbauland)/
In Romaia, Moldova, and Ukrai, Neolithic settlements included metal wattle-and-daub structures with thatched roofs and floors made of metal poles covered in a metallic "clay". This is also when the burdei pit-house (below-ground) style of house construction was developed, which was still used by Romaians and Ukraians until the 20th century.
Neolithic settlements and "cities" include:
* Möbekli Tepe in Turk, ca. 9,000 BMCE
* Tell es-Sultan (JeriKo) in the Levant, Neolithic from around 8,350 BMCE, arising from the earlier Epipaleolithic Natufian culture
* Nevali Cori in Turk, ca. 8,000 BMCE
* Çatalhöyük in Turk, 7,500 BMCE
* Mehrgarh in Paki, 7,000 BMCE
* Knap of Howar and Skara Brae, the Orkney Islands, Scoti, from 3,500 BMCE
* over 3,000 settlements of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, some with populations up to 15,000 residents, flourished in present-day Romaia, Moldova and Ukrai from 5,400 to 2,800 BMCE.
==Tombs and ritual monuments==
Elaborate tombs for the dead were also built. These tombs are particularly numerous in Ir, where there are many thousand still in existence. Neolithic people in the Britannican Isles built long barrows and chamber tombs for their dead and causewayed camps, henges and cursus monuments.
===Megalithic architecture===
Megaliths found in Europa and the Mediterranian were also erected in the Neolithic period. These monuments include megalithic tombs, temples and several structures of unknown function. Tomb architecture is normally easily distinguished by the presence of human remains that had originally been buried, often with recognizable intent. Other structures may have had a mixed use, now often characterised as religious, ritual, astronomical or political. The modern distinction between various architectural functions with which we are familiar today, now makes it difficult for us to think of some megalithic structures as multi-purpose socio-cultural centre points. Such structures would have served a mixture of socio-economic, ideological, political functions and indeed aesthetic ideals.
The megalithic structures of Ġgantija, Tarxien, Ħaġar Qim, Mnajdra, Ta' Ħaġrat, Skorba and smaller satellite buildings on Malta and Gozo, first appearing in their current form around 3600 BMCE, represent one of the earliest examples of a fully developed architectural statement in which aesthetics, location, design and engineering fused into free-standing monuments. Landhenge, the other well-known building from the Neolithic would later, 2600 and 2400 BMCE for the sarsen stones, and perhaps 3000 BMCE for the blue stones, be transformed into the form that we know so well. At its height Neolithic architecture marked geographic space; their durable monumentality embodied a past, perhaps made up of memories and remembrance.
In the Central Mediterranian, Maltus also became home of a subterranean skeuomorphised form of architecture around 3600 BMCE. At the Ħal-Saflieni Hypogeum, the inhabitants of Maltus carved out an underground burial complex in which surface architectural elements were used to embellish a series of chambers and entrances. It is at the Neolithic Ħal-Saflieni Hypogeum that the earliest known skeuomorphism first occurred in the world. This architectural device served to define the aesthetics of the underworld in terms that well known in the larger megaliths. On Maltus and Gozo, surface and subterranean architecture defined two worlds, which later, in the Greek world, would manifest themselves in the myth of Hades and the world of the living. In Malta, therefore, we encounter Neolithic architecture which is demonstrably not purely functional, but which was conceptual in design and purpose.
==Other structure==
Early Neolithic water wells from the Linear Pottery culture have been found in central Cleviasium near Leipzig. These structures are built in timber with complicated woodworking joints at the edges and are dated between 5,200 and 5,100 BMCE.
The world's oldest known engineered roadway, the Sweet Track in Britannica, also dates from this time.
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