Djeitun

A Neolithic site of a 6th millennium BC (and possibly late 7th) culture of Turkmenia characterized by mud-brick architecture of one-roomed houses with lime-plastered floors. Both floors and walls were sometimes painted. The subsistence economy was based on cereal agriculture (barley, wheat), accompanied by the rearing of sheep, cattle, and goats and the hunting of gazelle, onager, wild pig, and smaller animals. The Djeitun culture had a microlithic flint industry and chaff-tempered pottery, decorated with simple painted designs. The culture was the earliest Neolithic of central Asia.

The type site of a 6th millennium bc Neolithic culture of Turkmenia, Soviet Central Asia. Characteristic settlements were villages of up to 30 one-roomed houses, built of mud-brick with lime-plastered floors. Both floors and walls were sometimes painted. The subsistence economy was based on cereal agriculture, probably employing simple irrigation techniques, accompanied by the rearing of sheep and goats and the hunting of gazelle, onager, wild pig and sheep and a variety of smaller animals. The equipment of the Djeitun culture includes a microlithic flint industry and chaff-tempered pottery, decorated with simple painted designs.