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• 22 avr 2016

  23 avr 2016

  Williamsburg

  Séminaire - Histoire

  Did the Plague Impact Sub-Saharan Africa before 1899?

  Genetics evidence published in recent years suggests that certain strains of plague (Yersinia pestis) in sub-Saharan Africa may be centuries old. This raises questions whether there is correlation with the suspected depopulations in certain areas of sub-Saharan Africa in the late medieval period. This symposium, for the first time ever, brings together historians, geneticists, archeologists, art historians, anthropologists, and linguists to examine these questions. 

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