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
Excavations at Çatalhöyük show how closely people lived before the settlement collapsed.Mark Nesbitt/Wikimedia Commons, CC BYIn 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...