Plague Burial (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

Plague Burial

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Rund 3 800 Jahre alte Doppelbestattung der beiden Pestopfer in der Samara-Region im heutigen Russland.

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V.V. Kondrashin and V.A. Tsybin; Spyrou et al. 2018. Analysis of 3,800-year-old Yersinia pestis genomes suggests Bronze Age origin for bubonic plague. <i>Nature Communications</i>.

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