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

In my research^[1] 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 again, only to abandon those as well. Why?

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