I just discovered that most of the presentations from the “Plague in Diachronic and Interdisciplinary Perspective” session of the Europan Association of Archaeologists meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania on 2 September 2016 are now on YouTube. I think I have collected them all here. Enjoy 3 hours of plague talks!
Introduction-Plague in diachronic and Interdisciplinary perspective by Marcel Keller
From Mild to Murderous: How Yersinia pestis Evolved to Cause Pneumonic Plague by Wyndham Lathem (30 min)
Reconstructing ancient pathogens – discovery of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 Years Ago by Simon Rasmussen (15 min)
Plague in the eastern Mediterranean region 1200-1000 BC? by Lars Walloe (15 min)
Placing the Plague of Justinian in the Yersinia pestis phylogenetic context by Jennifer Klunk (15 min)
A demographic history of the plague bacillus revealed through ancient Yersinia pestis genomes by Maria Spyrou (15 min)
Analysis of a High-coverage Yersinia pestis Genome from a 6th Century Justinianic Plague Victim by Michal Feldman (15 min)
Early medieval burials of plague victims: examples from Aschheim and Altenerding (Bavaria, Germany) by Doris Gutsmiedl-Schumann (15 min)
Fleas, rats and other stories – The palaeoecology of the Black Death by Eva Panagiotakopulu (15 min)
Plague in Valencia, 546: A Case Study of the Integration of Texts and Archaeology by Henry Gruber (15 min)
Germany and the Black Death: a zooarchaeological approach by M.A. Paxinos
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