A new study reveals that plague was lethal thousands of years ago, during the Neolithic.
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Anthropologist Alex Bentley tells The Conversation Weekly about his research how modelling the spread of COVID sparked new research on the spread of disease in early civilisations.
Scientists analysed thousands of years of pollen data and made a surprising discovery.
Neolithic populations declined 5,000 years ago, but the reasons are subject to debate.
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Stephen Shennan is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of Theoretical Archaeology, UCL
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