DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, challenging the idea that there were no major disease outbreaks before the advent of farming and lar ...

Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years ago, leaving dozens dead in its wake—with DNA from Yersinia pestis bacteria still trapped inside their teeth.

The skeletons of nomadic families unearthed in Siberia harbor "Yersinia pestis" bacteria, which challenges theories about conditions needed for the disease to spread ...

A new study led by Dr. Ariel Malinsky-Buller of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem challenges long-held assumptions about how prehistoric hunter-gatherers survived in the Southern Caucasus between ...

The science writer Jared Diamond once called agriculture ‘the worst mistake in the history of the human race’. Yuval Noah ...

Plague has terrorized humans for millennia: In the 1300s the Black Death sparked the deadliest pandemic in human history, killing as many as half of all the people in Europe. Long before that, around ...

Did a major epidemic of plague trigger a prolonged collapse in Europe's population in late Neolithic times—from around 5,600 ...

A rare opportunity to spend time with the Hadzabe offers insight into one of the world’s last remaining hunter-gatherer societies. Through candid conversations, members of the tribe share their views ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plague DNA was recovered from an adolescent boy and girl found in the same grave in Siberia. - Vladimiri Bazaliiskii Ancient DNA ...

Plague was already a deadly killer 5,500 years ago, long before cities, farming, or the rat-infested conditions usually linked to historic outbreaks. By analyzing ancient DNA from hunter-gatherer ...

Their work represents the oldest detection of plague outbreaks known to researchers, as well as the first unambiguous evidence that early and genetically different Yersinia pestis strains were deadly ...

The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to ...