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Aerial view of archaeologists excavating human remains in an indoor archaeological site

No great equaliser: young labourers hit hardest by Early Modern plague

Tuesday 14th April 2026

Examination of plague victims from a 17^th century AD hospital in Basel, Switzerland reveals the majority of those who died from the plague were working youths from lower social classes, showing how social status impacted disease mortality in the past just as much as it does today.

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Excavated stone tomb on the shore of a loch

From father to son: Scottish Neolithic tombs were used to trace kinship - including descent

Tuesday 14th April 2026

Ancient DNA analysis of individuals buried in chambered tombs from Early Neolithic northern Scotland finds some were closely related along the male line of descent, indicating paternal relatedness was an important social connection to the first Neolithic people in Britain and suggesting funerary landscapes were monumental signifiers of kinship and group identities.