Enjoyed reading this balanced piece on whether we are able to link the Neolithic 'decline' explicitly to pathogens (plague). Short answer: Probably not. It's complicated.
Felix M Key
I was pleased to be invited to comment on this new paper on the genetic analysis of people buried in the Bury megalithic gallery grave in the Paris Basin as it saves me making a thread of my thoughts on here!
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Nature Ecology & Evolution - Were there catastrophic population collapses across Europe in the late Neolithic and, if so, what factors were responsible? Ancient DNA from 133 people whose...