World's early mega-settlements mysteriously collapsed — this might be why
Whether intentional or not, the way mega-settlements in southeastern Europe from 6,000 years ago were laid out would have cut down on the spread of disease.
R. Alexander Bentley
Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
Alex Bentley is Professor of Anthropology at University of Tennessee. Author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles, his research test models of cultural evolution on a range of datasets documenting culture, health, social influence and decision-making, at time scales ranging from decades to days. Bentley spent over a decade of his career at universities in the UK, most recently Bristol University. A recent book is The Acceleration of Cultural Change (M.I.T. Press 2017).
