The Mysterious Decline of Neolithic Populations and the Role of the Plague
The Mysterious Decline of Neolithic Populations At the conclusion of the Stone Age, approximately 5,300 years ago, there was a dramatic decline in the populations of Scandinavia and northwest Europe, resulting in the disintegration of farming communities. “People ceased constructing megalithic structures such as Stonehenge,” remarked Frederik Seersholm, a geneticist at the University of…














