plague8 min
The Oldest Known Plague Outbreak: Lake Baikal, 5,500 Years Ago
Yersinia pestis genomes from four Siberian hunter-gatherer cemeteries show lethal plague outbreaks millennia before cities, farming or rats.
Methodology deep-dives, population spotlights, and engineering notes from the Ancestrify team — qpAdm modelling, ancient DNA panels, and how genetic ancestry analysis really works.
1 story