Burnt mounds as saunas, and the prehistory of bathing
Lawrence Barfield|Mike Hodder
The physical scale of buildings like the Baths Caracalla give clearest indication importance bathing in classical order things – though whether what Romans did bath was always clean and decent may be an open question. But about prehistory bathing, particularly steam? An answer is given here which links historical ethnographic record to burnt mounds, among more common puzzling types north European site.
Antiquity