Beyond Plague Pits: Using Genetics to Identify Responses to Plague in Medieval Cambridgeshire

Ancient DNA from Yersinia pestis has been identified in skeletons at four urban burial grounds in Cambridge, England, and at a nearby rural cemetery. Dating to between ad 1349 and 1561, these represent individuals who died of plague during the second pandemic. Most come from normative individual bur...

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Veröffentlicht in:	European journal of archaeology 2021-11, Vol.24 (4), p.496-518
Hauptverfasser:	Cessford, Craig, Scheib, Christiana L., Guellil, Meriam, Keller, Marcel, Alexander, Craig, Inskip, Sarah A., Robb, John E.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	14th century Archaeology Cemeteries Death & dying Epidemics Excavation Fatalities Funerals Historic artifacts Human remains Medieval period Pandemics Pathogens Population Religion
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