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The oldest known #plague #outbreak struck #huntergatherers 5,500 years ago
The find challenges the idea that plague needed dense farming villages to become deadly.
Found at one of four ancient burial sites, the discovery predates the previous oldest signs of plague by several hundred years. It also indicates that hunter-gatherers were at risk from outbreaks of plague many centuries before the invention of farming and settled villages
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/plague-outbreak-oldest-hunter-gatherers
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Palaeodemographic Modelling Supports A Population Bottleneck During The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition In Iberia
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09833-3 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #demographics #palaeodemographic #palaeodemography #demography #spain #iberia #prehistoric #huntergatherers #glacial #interglacial #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #population #growth #shrinkage #climatechange #holocene #genetics #statistics #geostatistics #pleistocene #archaeology #ancienthistory #humanoids