Stone Age Plague Map (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

Stone Age Plague Map

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Map of proposed <i>Yersinia pestis</i> circulation throughout Eurasia. A) Entrance of <i>Y. pestis</i> into Europe from Central Eurasia with the expansion of Yamnaya pastoralists around 4,800 years ago. B) Circulation of <i>Y. pestis</i> to Southern Siberia from Europe. Only complete genomes are shown.

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Aida Andrades Valtueña. Andrades Valtueña et al. (2017). The Stone Age Plague and its Persistence in Eurasia. <i>Current Biology</i>.

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