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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
imageExcavations 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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