Did Plague Ravage Stone Age Scandinavia?
Around 5,300 years ago, at the end of the Stone Age, the population of Scandinavia and northwestern Europe declined, leading to the disappearance of farming communities. ‘People don’t build stone like Stonehenge,’ says geneticist Frederik Seersholm of the University of Copenhagen. Settlements were abandoned and entire populations disappeared. Nomadic cultures moved westward. The causes of […]