![]() ![]() pestis infection in other individuals’ DNA, suggesting people in the area weren’t facing an epidemic (SN: 1/6/21). ![]() The man was carefully buried, and the team didn’t find mass graves or Y. It’s likely this early plague strain passed to humans through isolated encounters, such as from rodent bites, Krause-Kyora and colleagues conclude. And the strain lacked the gene for swift flea-to-human transmission, which evolved perhaps 3,800 years ago and drove later bubonic plague epidemics, says Ben Krause-Kyora, an archaeologist and biochemist at Kiel University in Germany. pestis history than that found at the Scandinavian site.īacterial DNA also suggest that the ancient plague victim didn’t develop pustules or infect his family. The Latvia man’s bones are also about 5,000 years old, but DNA comparison suggests he contracted a less virulent strain that emerged 1,000 years earlier in Y. It usurps the previous record-holder, found in a 5,000-year-old Scandinavian mass grave associated with a possible plague epidemic (SN: 12/6/18). pestis strain that infected the man emerged around 7,100 years ago, researchers report online June 29 in Cell Reports. Taller men were found buried in larger graves, which could be due to them having a higher status and having access to better food.The oldest known strain of the plague-causing bacteria Yersinia pestis has been found lurking in the bones and teeth of a man buried thousands of years ago in what is now Latvia. ![]() The area is also believed to have been the political, cultural and economic centre of the Chinese region. Colourful pots were also found in the graves The people living in the region 5,000 years ago are believed to have had relatively comfortable lives the rows of houses that have been excavated suggested their living quarters had separate bedrooms and kitchens, according to China Daily. A number of colourful pots and jade articles were also recovered.Īrchaeologists have been uncovering artefacts and bones from the late Neolithic people since last year, who are understood to have lived mostly off pigs and millet. The excavation site in the village of Jiaojia, near Jinan City, has been found to hold 104 houses, 205 graves and 20 sacrificial pits. A study conducted in 2015 found the average height of 18 men to be 1.753m, compared to the country’s national average of 1.72m.Ĭonfucius, who was born in what is now the Shandong province, was reportedly 1.9m tall. Locals in Shandong see their height as a defining characteristic. If he was a living person, his height would certainly exceed 1.9m,” Fang Hui, head of Shandong University’s school of history and culture, told the agency. ![]() Archaeologists in eastern China have found 5,000-year-old skeletons of people experts say would have been unusually tall and strong.Īccording to the measurements of bones in the graves at the site in Shandong province, a number of the people would have measured at 1.8m or taller, with one man estimated to have been 1.9m, Xinhua news agency reported.Īlthough not particularly unusual by 21st-century Western standards, it is thought their height would have seen them tower over many of their contemporaries. ![]()
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