The term “social distancing” spread out across the public vocabulary in recent years as people around the world changed habits to combat the COVID pandemic. New research led by UT Professor Alex Bentley, however, reveals the practice of organized elbow room could date back approximately 6,000 years.
Healthy elbow room: Social distancing in Neolithic mega-settlements
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