The mullet has supposedly been making a comeback for months, but what if this legendary hairstyle had always been at the cutting edge of fashion? That’s what a small Iron Age figurine seems to suggest, in any case. This 5-cm figure of a deity can be seen sporting a mustache and a mullet, a potentially popular hairstyle at the time, according to archeologists.
Love it or loathe it, the mullet hairstyle has spanned the ages. Although often associated with superstars like Billy Ray Cyrus and David Bowie, this cut may also have been popular in Roman Britain. National Trust archaeologists and colleagues from Oxford Archaeology East came to this conclusion thanks to a copper-alloy figur…
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