The Plague Was There Before We Built the Cities
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The episode discusses the discovery of plague DNA in ancient hunter-gatherers and its implications for understanding disease in early human societies.
Send us Fan Mail 📖 Read the companion essay In 3500 BCE, a community of mobile hunter-gatherers on the banks of the Angara River in Siberia were doing what they had always done — fishing, hunting, moving with the seasons. Then their children began to die. Not from starvation. From plague. A groundbreaking paper published in Nature has extracted Yersinia pestis DNA from the dental cementum of 18 late Neolithic hunter-gatherers near Lake Baikal — achieving a 39% positive detection rate across 4...
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