Volcanoes, Famine and Grain Ships: How Climate‑Driven Trade May Have Brought the Black Death to Europe

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For almost seven centuries, the arrival of the Black Pest in Europe was told as a historical fatality: a scourge born in Central Asia, transported by caravans and commercial routes to Mediterranean ports. But a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment proposes a radically different scenario. According to a team [...]

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The black plague killed between a third and half of the European population in the middle of the 14th century, but its sudden onset remained poorly explained. If the Asian origin of the bacterium Yersinia pestis and its transport via commercial roads were known, the question of why at that time remained open. A recent study, conducted by geographer Ulf Büntgen (University of Cambridge) and historian Martin Bauch (Leibniz Institute for the Histor…