The Altenerding Plague Burials (IMAGE)

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The Altenerding Plague Burials

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Adult woman AE1175 (left) and adult man AE1176 (right) excavated at Altenerding and found positive for presence of Y. pestis © State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy Munich). The arrow shows the third Molar sampled from individual AE1175 from which the Altenerding high coverage genome was obtained. Grave goods of individual AE1175 and AE1176 typical of the middle of the 6th century (© Archaeological State Collection Munich), Grave goods not shown true to scale).

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State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy Munich

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