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Plague: Why Europe’s late stone age population crashed
Around 5,000 years ago, the population in northern Europe collapsed, decimating Stone Age farming communities across the region. The cause of the ‘Neolithic decline’, has remained a matter of debate.A new study, ‘Repeated plague infections across six …