Saving to read later, would love to know what ancient, medieval, and early modernist scholars make of this.
Ian Janssen
5,500 years ago, plague was already killing children in Siberian hunter-gatherer families, no fleas, no cities, no farming required. Ancient DNA reveals a toxin that may explain why kids died and adults didn’t. #archaeogenetics #ancientDNA #paleopathology www.anthropology.net/p/lethal-pla...
Ancient DNA from four Siberian cemeteries shows that early Yersinia pestis was already a child-killing pathogen, centuries before fleas, rats, or farming had anything to do with it.
