Megaron or Pier Houses

During the Neolithic age, a common ancestor house type found in the southern Levant, called the "megaron" or "pier house" for the piers projecting from the interior side walls.

a.- c. Jericho
PPNA&PPNB Pre-Pottery Neolithic, c. 9500–6500 BCE
Palestine, West Bank

d. Yiftahel
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, 8000-7000 BCE
Northern Israel

e.- f. 'Ain Ghazal
MPPNB, 8300 - 7550 BCE (see above)
Amman, Jordan

g.- h. Beidha Level II,
7200 - 6500 BC
near Petra, Jordan

j. Beisamoun
Middle and Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, 6500 BCE
Northern Israel

Data for CG model:
1. Banning, E. B. 2003; Housing Neolithic Farmers, Near Eastern Archaeology, Mar-Jun 2003; ProQuest.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266393614_Housing_Neolithic_Farmers