Houses are more than shelter; they embody cultural values, commitment to places, and plans of action. Few things bring home the difference of another culture more strongly than how they inhabit their houses. Houses and villages are a fundamental aspect of culture, both for us and for Neolithic people. One illustration of this is a remarkable pattern found throughout Southern Italy and Sicily. Archaeologists excavating an Early or Middle Neolithic village come across burials dating to much later in the Neolithic – perhaps 500 years or more. One of the best-documented cases, thanks to systematic radiocarbon dating, is Serra Cicora in the Salentino peninsula of Puglia (Ingravallo 2001; Quarta et al. 2005). Here people inhabited a small village in the mid-sixth millennium BCcal, leaving the usual debris as well as burying several of their dead within the village.