The Unequal Dead: Child Labor, Plague, and Social Survival in Early Modern Basel New bioarchaeological analysis of a 17th-century hospital cemetery shows that plague mortality fell hardest on young laborers already depleted by a lifetime of physical work.

A clay pipe, a strain of Y. pestis, and 15 sets of worn-out bones: new research from Basel links plague mortality to child labor and social exclusion in 17th-century Switzerland. The inequality was skeletal. #Bioarchaeology #PlagueHistory #SocialInequality @antiquity.ac.uk

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
Surviving the plague FOUR times?! 😳🦠
Dr Alanna Skuse unpacks the wild world of early plague cures on History Rage.
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🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE 🚨 Surviving the plague FOUR times?! 😳🦠
Dr Alanna Skuse unpacks the wild world of early plague cures on History Rage.

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#HistoryRage #Podcast #PlagueHistory #MedicalHistory #Renaissance #AlannaSkuse 🎙️🔥

Plague Victims Among More Than 20 Skeletons Found at Tower of London What other secrets still lie buried there?

Plague Victims Among More Than 20 Skeletons Found at Tower of London #Science #Archaeology #PlagueHistory #ArchaeologicalFinds #TowerOfLondon

The Black Death and Volcanoes: Why the Plague Was Never in the Ash Likely represents Sophia/logos (red robe with purple high status) Illumination of P Pythagoria Pi and phi – geometrical shapes set within circle bounded in green representing material world F…

The Black Death was not in volcanic ash.
Volcanic cooling disrupted climate and trade, allowing Yersinia pestis to spread through medieval ports.
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#BlackDeath #PlagueHistory #MedievalHistory #ClimateHistory #YersiniaPestis

DNA Study Reveals Carrier of World's Earliest-Known Plague A significant clue.

DNA Study Reveals Carrier of World's Earliest-Known Plague #Science #Biology #Genetics #PlagueHistory #GeneticsResearch #AncientDNA

Source of History's First Plague Pandemic Has Been Unearthed in Buried Teeth Learn how DNA from teeth found at a mass grave unraveled the mystery of the world's first plague pandemic. 

Source of History's First Plague Pandemic Has Been Unearthed in Buried Teeth #Science #Biology #Microbiology #PlagueHistory #MicrobialResearch #AncientPandemics

Tracing a Prehistoric Plague Through the Pastures of the Eurasian Steppe How a 4,000-year-old sheep offers new clues about an ancient, enigmatic plague

A 4,000-year-old sheep from the Eurasian Steppe carried the same ancient plague as nearby humans, hinting livestock helped spread a mysterious prehistoric Y. pestis. The wild reservoir? Still unknown. #Archaeology #AncientDNA #PlagueHistory @cellpress.bsky.social

🐀 The Black Death (1347) wasn’t all the rats’ fault! Modern research suggests human fleas and lice played a bigger role in spreading the plague. Rats may have been innocent bystanders in one of history’s darkest chapters. #PlagueHistory #JusticeForRats #AnimalsHistory

Cocoliztli Epidemics: Disease and Collapse in Mesoamerica Explore the deadly Cocoliztli epidemics of 16th-century Mesoamerica and their catastrophic role in reshaping colonial history.

Before smallpox, there was Cocoliztli.

It hemorrhaged empires and soaked Mesoamerica in blood and drought.

Colonialism didn’t just conquer — it destabilized the climate and the body.

#Brewminate #ColonialHistory #Cocoliztli #PlagueHistory