I am curious if the notion of hoarding (i.e. the television shows) is a recent phenomenon, or if other cultures have contained instances of hoarding of sorts.
there are a few archaeologists here, but this question might do better in one of the archaeology subs, e.g. /r/AskAnthropology, /r/AskScience or /r/Archaeology (not an "Ask" sub, but you could give them a shot)