Plague continued to afflict Europe for more than five centuries after the Black Death. Yet, by
the 17th century, the dynamics of plague had changed, leading to its slow decline in …

The international scope of the Mediterranean wine trade in Late Antiquity raises important
questions concerning sustainability in an ancient international economy and offers a …

Ancient DNA (aDNA) analyses necessitate the destructive sampling of archaeological
material. Currently, the cochlea, part of the osseous inner ear located inside the petrous …

The influence that meteorological, climatological and environmental factors had on historical
disease outbreaks is often speculated upon, but little investigated. Here, we explore …

Late antique plague has never been more contested. Recent scholarship has repeatedly
questioned whether the Justinianic plague caused catastrophic mortality and supporters of …

The present paper aims to reconstruct tentative ways, in which the Black Death (the first
wave of the Second Plague Pandemic) spread from its now-established home in the Tian …

Цель исследования-комплексный анализ фенотипических и генетических свойств
штаммов Yersinia pestis, выделенных в Сарыджазском и Верхненарынском …

The aim of the study was a comprehensive analysis of the phenotypic and genetic properties
of Yersinia pestis strains isolated in the Sarydzhaz and Upper-Naryn high-mountain foci of …

This thesis evolved from a short paper idea in my sophomore year to the admittedly overlong
treatise you have before you now. Needless to say, it represents the culmination of my …