Rectangular house with stone foundations
Casa rectangular con cimientos de piedra
- Date
- c. 8600 BCE · confidence medium
- Place
- Çayönü Tepesi, Diyarbakır, Turkey
- Credited to
- PPNB communities of the upper Tigris
- Field
- Tools
What it is
The replacement of the circular hut with the multi-room rectangular house on stone foundations (grill-plan and cell-plan), which can be extended and joined to others. It enables the family house with its own store and compact clustering.
What it led to
- The nuclear household with private storage, the origin of family property
- Dense villages with adjoining houses and alleyways
- Specialisation of spaces: kitchen, store, workshop, burial beneath the floor
Built on
- Mud brick (adobe)c. 9000 BCE
- Burnt lime and gypsum plasterc. 8000 BCE
- Natufian round hut
- Lime plaster
Made possible
- Painted map / town planc. 6200 BCE
- City and urbanismc. 3700 BCE
- Mycenaean tholos: corbelled dome and relieving trianglec. 1250 BCE
- Çatalhöyük-type agglutinated settlement
- Courtyard house