Editing Neolithic (section)

===Shelter and sedentism===
[[File:Neolithic house.JPG|thumb|Reconstruction of Neolithic house in [[Tuzla]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]]]{{See also|Neolithic architecture|History of construction}}
The shelter of early people changed dramatically from the [[Upper Paleolithic]] to the Neolithic era. In the Paleolithic, people did not normally live in permanent constructions. In the Neolithic, mud brick houses started appearing that were coated with plaster.<ref name="firstcity">[http://www2.bc.edu/~mcdonadh/course/huyuk.html Shane, Orrin C. III, and Mine Küçuk. "The World's First City."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080315174222/http://www2.bc.edu/~mcdonadh/course/huyuk.html |date=2008-03-15 }} Archaeology 51.2 (1998): 43–47.</ref> This increased use of clay for building, along with the development of pottery and other clay-based artifacts, has led some to refer to the Neolithic period as the '''Age of Clay'''.<ref name="f818">{{cite web | last=Gillespie | first=Susan D. | title=Clay: The Entanglement of Earth in the Age of Clay | publisher=LibraryPress@UF | date=November 10, 2019 | url=https://ufl.pb.unizin.org/imos/chapter/clay/ | access-date=May 4, 2025}}</ref> The growth of agriculture made permanent houses far more common. At [[Çatalhöyük]] 9,000 years ago, doorways were made on the roof, with ladders positioned both on the inside and outside of the houses.<ref name="firstcity" /> [[Stilt-houses|Stilt-house]] settlements were common in the [[Alps|Alpine]] and [[Pianura Padana]] ([[Terramare]]) region.<ref name="Ertl2008">{{cite book |author = Alan W. Ertl |title = Toward an Understanding of Europe: A Political Economic Précis of Continental Integration |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=X9PGRaZt-zcC&pg=PA308 |access-date = 28 March 2011| year=2008 |publisher = Universal-Publishers |isbn = 978-1-59942-983-0| page = 308 }}</ref> Remains have been found in the [[Ljubljana Marsh]] in [[Slovenia]] and at the [[Mondsee (lake)|Mondsee]] and [[Attersee (lake)|Attersee]] lakes in [[Upper Austria]], for example.