The Stone Age Plague: 1000 years of Persistence in Eurasia
A. Andrades Valtuena, A. Mittnik, F. M. Key, W. Haak, R. Allmae, A. Belinskij, M. Daubaras, M. Feldman, R. Jankauskas, I. Janković, K. Massy, M. Novak, S. Pfrengle, S. Reinhold, M. Šlaus, , J. Krause
This study identifies six new Yersinia pestis genomes from the European Late Neolithic to Bronze Age, suggesting a single genetic clade that may have persisted in Europe until the mid Bronze Age.
bioRxiv · May 17, 2017Evolutionary Biology