Why is long hair often associated with ancient times? Is short hair also considered ancient?

There’s a certain amount of technology involved in cutting hair, you know. Scissors and razors are technologies, and, they weren’t as perfected five thousand years ago as they are now. So, while no doubt it was possible to cut hair thousands of years ago, it would have been more difficult, less precise, and probably rather more painful than it is now. So, in general, people would have tended to let their hair grow longer before they attempted to cut it, I would suspect. Too much trouble. https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Why-is-long-hair-often-associated-with-ancient-times-Is-short-hair-also-considered-ancient