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 ...

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 ...

The advent of horse riding, the authors propose, led to a pastoralism boom in Centra Asia's Sintashta culture 4,000 years ago. Large, dense livestock herds were more likely to contract LNBA plague ...

The advent of horse riding, the authors propose, led to a pastoralism boom in Centra Asia's Sintashta culture 4,000 years ago. Large, dense livestock herds were more likely to contract LNBA plague ...

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 ...