Prehistoric Plague Could Have Caused a Population Collapse in Stone Age Europe
Plague victims buried in a shared grave at Ust’Ida, Lake Baikal. Credit: Vladimir Bazaliiskii Did a major epidemic…
Bangkok Post – Plague was killing hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago: study
Disease long associated with Europe believed to have emerged far earlier in Siberia Marmots are thought to have…
Ancient plague mystery cracked after DNA found in 4,000-year-old animal remains
Long before the Black Death killed millions across Europe in the Middle Ages, an earlier, more elusive version…
A massive mid-14th-century volcanic eruption likely triggered the spread of the “Black Death”
New interdisciplinary evidence shows how a mid-14th-century volcanic cooling reshaped Mediterranean food security, redirected grain ships from the…
Lessons from COVID-19 could help communities better prepare for the next pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided researchers with a wealth of information on contemporary successes and failures in combating…
Urbanization and genetic homogenization in the medieval Low Countries revealed through a ten-century paleogenomic study of the city of Sint-Truiden | Genome Biology
Lawson DJ, Hellenthal G, Myers S, Falush D. Inference of Population Structure using Dense Haplotype Data. Copenhaver GP,…