6th Millenium BC. A few families have settled on the slopes of a hill, overlooking the large plain leading to the Rhodope mountains. Their immediate ancestors still lived in mountain caves but they decided to move to the plain and built houses made of wood, straw and clay. The houses provide some comfort: a stove which also works as an oven, and some sort of couch which serves as a bedplace. They are stockbreeders and cultivators living off the fertile plain. Two houses are side-by-side under a single straw roof: families live, sleep and work there in a single room, using clay containers to store food and bone or stone tools for their trade. Grain is stored in a nearby place with a grain mill. Life is not luxurious but comfortable for these neolithic dwellers. They enjoy a mild climate with hot summers and mild winters. Water is running down to the nearby rivers from the Balkan mountains to the north, and there is food and livestock aplenty. Maybe their fathers decided to move here to bathe in the nearby mineral springs.

Some families even have beautifully decorated vessels in clay and jewelry. These objects are very original and are the product of their own inventiveness. It is thought that they independently created the designs and thought of ways to produce them without external influence. They thought of their own needs and produced pots and ornaments. But they did not forget the gods, in particular the mother goddess. Small clay figures of the mother goddess are kept in the house and dutifully worshipped.

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