Ancestor of Black Death Has Been Discovered in Bronze-Age Sheep
"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an important clue for how plague could transmit within pastoralist communities ...
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The Hidden Origin of the Black Death – The Bacteria That Caused Millions of Deaths Has Been Found in a Prehistoric Sheep
Recent DNA analysis has uncovered that a Bronze Age sheep from Arkaim, a settlement in the southern Urals (situated in modern Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, near ...
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Did This Bronze Age Sheep Trigger One of History’s Deadliest Diseases?
Scientists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old ancestor of the Black Death in the remains of a Bronze Age sheep, shedding light on the early evolution of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria responsible for ...
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Ancestor of Black Death Has Been Discovered in Bronze-Age Sheep
The advent of horse riding, the authors propose, led to a pastoralism boom in Centra Asia's Sintashta culture 4,000 years ago ...
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Anthropology Professor Awarded €100,000 to Study Ancient Plague in Central Asia
Their latest research argues that horse riding led to an intensification of pastoralism in the Sintashta Culture of Central Asia (ca. 4,000 years ago). Larger herds contributed to livestock ...