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A pre-Justinian plague in England? Radiocarbon dates, archaeological and historical chronology

Year: 2025

Type: other

Abstract: After genetic evidence was provided in Aschheim a few years ago indicating that the Justinian Plague was actually caused by the pathogen Yersinia pestis (Wiechmann / Grupe 2005), it became possible to find it in numerous locations across Austria, Great Britain, Germany, France, and Spain. This reveals a previously unknown diversity of the pathogen (Keller et al. 2019). The origin is traced to Central Asia (Damgaard et al. 2018), where genetic evidence of an ancestral form of Y. pestis, parti...

Source: Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)

DOI: 10.58079/13a71

Author: Rainer Schreg

Language: English

Topic: Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Subfield: Paleontology

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6955401985

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