This is a home for a cat circa 8,500 BC - one of the first that humans built when they became civilised and friendly to cats.
Before that time they wandered around the landscape without settling down in one spot.
Once they settled, they had to store food. So house mice moved in. So did sparrows. And so did we.... for the mice not the humans.
But the shelter from the weather suited some of us too. Admittedly building techniques in the so called Fertile Crescent were only mudbrick and the entrance door was in the roof... but better than a cold cave.
It was the beginning of the domestication of humans by cats. We moved in when we thought they had evolved enough.
- Photo shows early Neolithic mudbrick house, recreated at Asikli Hoyuk in Turkey.