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Hittite Hygiene Was Far More Advanced Than We Thought, New Research Shows
For a civilisation that ruled much of Anatolia more than three millennia ago, the Hittites were far less indifferent to dirt than modern stereotypes might suggest. New research shows that cleanliness in Hittite society was not accidental, symbolic, or secondary—but carefully structured, widely practiced, and socially meaningful. A recent study published in Anatolian Studies, authored…
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How Neolithic Rubbish Is Rewriting the Story of Europe’s First Farmers
Nearly 8,000 years ago, Europe’s earliest farmers began confronting a problem no hunter-gatherer group had ever faced: what to do with the growing piles of rubbish created by a settled life. A new international project led by the University of York and Freie Universität Berlin argues that Neolithic waste is far more than an archaeological…