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Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic
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SYSNO ASEP 0557491 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic Author(s) Izdebski, A. (PL)
Guzowski, P. (PL)
Poniat, R. (PL)
Masci, L. (IT)
Palli, J. (IT)
Vignola, C. (IT)
Bauch, M. (DE)
Cocozza, C. (IT)
Fernandes, R. (DE)
Ljungqvist, F. C. (SE)
Newfield, T. (US)
Seim, A. (DE)
Abel-Schaad, D. (ES)
Alba-Sánchez, F. (ES)
Björkman, L. (SE)
Brauer, A. (DE)
Brown, A. (GB)
Czerwiński, S. (PL)
Ejarque, A. (FR)
Fiłoc, M. (PL)
Florenzano, A. (IT)
Fredh, E. D. (NO)
Fyfe, R. (GB)
Jasiunas, N. (LV)
Kołaczek, P. (PL)
Kouli, K. (GR)
Kozáková, Radka (ARU-G) RID, SAI, ORCID
Kupryjanowicz, M. (PL)
Lagerås, P. (SE)
Lamentowicz, M. (PL)
Lindbladh, M. (SE)
López-Sáez, J. A. (ES)
Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, R. (ES)
Marcisz, K. (PL)
Mazier, F. (FR)
Mensing, S. (US)
Mercuri, A. M. (IT)
Milecka, K. (PL)
Miras, Y. (FR)
Noryśkiewicz, A. M. (PL)
Novenko, E. (RU)
Obremska, M. (PL)
Panajiotidis, S. (GR)
Papadopoulou, M. L. (GR)
Pędziszewska, A. (PL)
Pérez-Díaz, S. (ES)
Piovesan, G. (IT)
Pluskowski, A. (GB)
Pokorný, P. (CZ)
Poska, A. (EE)
Reitalu, T. (EE)
Rösch, M. (DE)
Sadori, L. (IT)
Sá Ferreira, C. (GB)
Sebag, D. (FR)
Słowiński, M. (PL)
Stančikaitė, M. (LT)
Stivrins, N. (EE)
Tunno, I. (US)
Veski, S. (EE)
Wacnik, A. (PL)
Masi, A. (IT)Number of authors 62 Source Title Nature Ecology & Evolution - ISSN 2397-334X
Roč. 6, č. 3 (2022), s. 297-306Number of pages 10 s. Publication form Online - E Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords Black Death ; pollen ; land-use ; landscape Subject RIV AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology OECD category Archaeology R&D Projects EF16_019/0000728 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) Method of publishing Open access Institutional support ARU-G - RVO:67985912 UT WOS 000753786800002 EID SCOPUS 85124551262 DOI 10.1038/s41559-021-01652-4 Annotation The Black Death (1347–1352 CE) is the most renowned pandemic in human history, believed by many to have killed half of Europe’s population. However, despite advances in ancient DNA research that conclusively identified the pandemic’s causative agent (bacterium Yersinia pestis), our knowledge of the Black Death remains limited, based primarily on qualitative remarks in medieval written sources available for some areas of Western Europe. Here, we remedy this situation by applying a pioneering new approach, ‘big data palaeoecology’, which, starting from palynological data, evaluates the scale of the Black Death’s mortality on a regional scale across Europe. We collected pollen data on landscape change from 261 radiocarbon-dated coring sites (lakes and wetlands) located across 19 modern-day European countries. We used two independent methods of analysis to evaluate whether the changes we see in the landscape at the time of the Black Death agree with the hypothesis that a large portion of the population, upwards of half, died within a few years in the 21 historical regions we studied. While we can confirm that the Black Death had a devastating impact in some regions, we found that it had negligible or no impact in others. These inter-regional differences in the Black Death’s mortality across Europe demonstrate the significance of cultural, ecological, economic, societal and climatic factors that mediated the dissemination and impact of the disease. The complex interplay of these factors, along with the historical ecology of plague, should be a focus of future research on historical pandemics. Workplace Institute of Archaeology (Prague) Contact Lada Šlesingerová, slesingerova@arup.cas.cz, Tel.: 257 014 412 Year of Publishing 2023 Electronic address https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01652-4.pdf
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