ERC Starting Grant · 2023
In recent years, rapid developments in the field of ancient metagenomics, enabled through advances in genomic sequencing and ancient DNA retrieval, have provided temporal transects of microbial diversity and have paved the way for studying human-pathogen interactions, on the biological and cultural dimensions, far earlier than the written historical record. With these tools at hand, PROTOPEST will utilise a timely opportunity for investigating the impact of infectious disease epidemics on prehistoric human societies. The project will be centred on the 2nd millennium BCE, a period of large-scale socio-cultural transformations witnessed differentially across the archaeological records of…
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