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Socially distanced layout of the world’s oldest cities helped early civilization evade diseases

  • Written by R. Alexander Bentley, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
Socially distanced layout of the world’s oldest cities helped early civilization evade diseasesExcavations at Çatalhöyük show how closely people lived before the settlement collapsed.Mark Nesbitt/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

In my research focused on early farmers of Europe, I have often wondered about a curious pattern through time: Farmers lived in large dense villages, then dispersed for centuries, then later formed cities...

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