5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer is earliest person to die with the plague
Jun 29, 2021
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A hunter-gatherer who lived more than 5,000 years ago is the earliest known person to have died with the plague, researchers have revealed.
Stone-age communities in western Europe experienced a huge population decline about 5,500 years ago, an event that is thought to have subsequently enabled a huge migration of people from the east.
The plague has been posited as an explanation after it was.
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