When Did Ancient Humans Actually Start Masking Smell?

You swipe on deodorant every morning without a second thought, two quick strokes before you're even awake. But that habit is covering up a signal your body has been sending for free since puberty first switched it on, and for most of human history nobody had any way to turn it off. This one kills the idea that body odour is just gross waste, and follows the clues that overturn it: a strange 1995 study in Bern where people rated the scent of worn T-shirts, a hunt for a human pheromone that never turned up, and a four-thousand-year-old workshop on Cyprus called Pyrgos where scent first got bottled, stored and sold to strangers. The ending explains why you're still paying to quiet a signal your ancestors broadcast for nothing. #AncientHumans #Prehistory #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #BodyOdor