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Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago
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Midnight slrpnk.net Midnight@slrpnk.net
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If the plague started in Siberia and gradually spread west over a few hundred years before decimating the early European farming communities, that might explain why Yamnaya steppe herders were able to move in from the Pontic steppe and repopulate: they would already have recovered from the plague a generation or two earlier.

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