Head of the Household

Neolithic farmers built some of Europe’s earliest houses in villages spread across the Pelagonia Valley in what is today the country of North Macedonia. Dating to around 6400 b.c., these houses were eventually dismantled, and subsequent generations built new homes again and again on the footprints of the original pioneer buildings. Archaeologists excavating these Neolithic settlements have found evidence that as many as 12 houses were built in the same location one above another. “Each house