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DNA From a 5,000-year-old Tomb Reveals the Plague Might Have Wiped out Europe's First Farmers

Genomes from a French mass grave reveal a prehistoric collapse and a total population replacement. Five thousand years ago, the thriving farming communities of northwestern Europe fell into a mysterious demographic slump. Megalithic tombs that had held generations of the dead were abandoned, and across the region, wild forests slowly crept back ov... [4069 chars]

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