In This Town People Still Live in 9000 Year Old Stone Age Homes

A remarkable story of continuous inhabitation since Neolithic times in Italy

Sassi Di Matera, Italy, where people live in 9,000-year-old homes. Source: Wikimedia.

Troglodyte, caveman, and cave-dweller are all derogatory terms that describe someone with a backward mindset. But in the Italian town of Sassi di Matera, they are a compliment because inhabitants take great pride in their Stone Age dwellings.

Sassi di Matera comprises the Sasso Caveoso and Sasso Barisano districts in the Italian city of Matera. Their houses date back to 7,000 B.C. and are among Italy’s earliest human settlements.

You may be familiar with this village if you saw Wonder Woman (2017), as Sassi was the setting for Themiscyra, the mythical city of the Amazon warriors. Sassi was also used to film Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ and, more recently, the James Bond movie No Time to Die.

UNESCO designated the hamlet as a World Heritage Site in 1993. Sassi tells us about how humans lived before the first cities appeared. Let’s look at what makes this real-life Flintstone town unique.

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