Analysis of 3800-year-old Yersinia pestis genomes suggests Bronze Age origin for bubonic plague
Yersinia pestis has caused infections (plague) in humans since the Early Bronze Age (5000 years ago). Here, Spyrou et al. reconstruct Y. pestis genomes from Late Bronze Age individuals, and find genomic evidence compatible with flea-mediated transmission
Maria A. Spyrou +11 more
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Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age. [PDF]
Patterson N +222 more
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Emergence of monopoly-Copper exchange networks during the Late Bronze Age in the western and central Balkans. [PDF]
Gavranović M +8 more
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Abdi-Hepa and his capital. Jerusalem in the Late Bronze Age
The history of Jerusalem is long and unclear. There are many doubts considering the city’s history before it was conquered by the Israelites. The only written source of information about it is the set of famed letters from Tell el-Amarna, six of which ...
Fabian Tryl
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Extensive archaeobotanical data estimate carrying capacity, duration, and land use of the Late Bronze Age settlement site Březnice (Czech Republic). [PDF]
Šálková T +8 more
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Combining geophysical prospection and core drilling: Reconstruction of a Late Bronze Age copper mine at Prigglitz-Gasteil in the Eastern Alps (Austria). [PDF]
Trebsche P +2 more
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The pace of transmission of domesticated cereals, including millet from China as well as wheat and barley from southwest Asia, throughout the vast pastoralist landscapes of the Eurasian Steppe (ES) is unclear.
Makarewicz, C., Ventresca Miller, A.
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Salorno-Dos de la Forca (Adige Valley, Northern Italy): A unique cremation site of the Late Bronze Age. [PDF]
Crivellaro F +4 more
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Glimpses of the Third Millennium BC in the Carpathian Basin [PDF]
The relative and absolute chronology of the cultural groups of the 3rd millennium BC is a particularly exciting field of prehistoric research because this period spans the assumed boundary of two major periods — the final phase of the Copper Age and ...
Kulcsár, Gabriella
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One of the oldest complete suits of European armour was discovered in 1960 near the village of Dendra, in Southern Greece, but it remained unknown whether this armour was suitable for extended use in battle or was purely ceremonial.
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