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Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death. (2024)
Journal Article
Hui, R., Scheib, C. L., D'Atanasio, E., Inskip, S. A., Cessford, C., Biagini, S. A., …Kivisild, T. (2024). Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death. Science Advances, 10(3), Article eadi5903. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi5903

The extent of the devastation of the Black Death pandemic (1346-1353) on European populations is known from documentary sources and its bacterial source illuminated by studies of ancient pathogen DNA. What has remained less understood is the effect o... Read More about Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death..

Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity (2023)
Journal Article
Inskip, S., Cessford, C., Dittmar, J., Rose, A., Mulder, B., O'Connell, T., …Robb, J. (2023). Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity. Antiquity, 97(396), 1581-1597. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.167

Medieval hospitals were founded to provide charity, but poverty and infirmity were broad and socially determined categories and little is known about the residents of these institutions and the pathways that led them there. Combining skeletal, isotop... Read More about Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity.

Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia (2022)
Journal Article
Guellil, M., van Dorp, L., Inskip, S. A., Dittmar, J. M., Saag, L., Tambets, K., …Scheib, C. L. (2022). Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia. Science Advances, 8(30), https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo4435

Human herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), a life-long infection spread by oral contact, infects a majority of adults globally. Phylogeographic clustering of sampled diversity into European, pan-Eurasian, and African groups has suggested the virus codiver... Read More about Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia.