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Perhaps a less severe but similar scenario played out in southeastern Europe? Could this explain the burning of settlements, the scattering of the population? We already know that steppe people harbored the plague. Probably we'll never know, but I think it's possible.
See:
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...-they-confronted-the-aftermath-of-a-holocaust
"Everywhere they looked, there were corpses. Abandoned, overgrown villages were littered with skulls; whole sections of coastline strewn with bleached, decayed bodies...They kept seeing rotting houses and massive clearings cut out of the Pacific forest — evidence that whoever lived here had been able to muster armies of labourers.And yet the only locals the sailors encountered were small groups of desperately poor people, many of them horribly scarred and missing an eye."
"“News reached them from the east that a great sickness was travelling over the land, a sickness that no medicine could cure, and no person escape,” said a man identified as Old Pierre, a member of what is now the Katzie First Nation in Pitt Meadows, B.C.
After an emergency meeting, the doomed forebears of the Katzie decided to face the coming catastrophe with as much grace as they could muster: Every adult returned to the home of their parents to wait for the end.
“Then the wind carried the smallpox sickness among them. Some crawled away into the woods to die; many died in their homes,” Old Pierre told the anthropologist Diamond Jenness in 1936."
"Just as the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, smallpox began sweeping through Patriot strongholds and encampments...The epidemic soon broke out of the war-torn coastal areas and began penetrating inland, surging across indigenous trading networks and passing between warring enemies.
Before the Revolutionary War was over, its epidemiological offshoot had surged as far as Mexico and was scything its way through the Canadian Prairies."
See:
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...-they-confronted-the-aftermath-of-a-holocaust
"Everywhere they looked, there were corpses. Abandoned, overgrown villages were littered with skulls; whole sections of coastline strewn with bleached, decayed bodies...They kept seeing rotting houses and massive clearings cut out of the Pacific forest — evidence that whoever lived here had been able to muster armies of labourers.And yet the only locals the sailors encountered were small groups of desperately poor people, many of them horribly scarred and missing an eye."
"“News reached them from the east that a great sickness was travelling over the land, a sickness that no medicine could cure, and no person escape,” said a man identified as Old Pierre, a member of what is now the Katzie First Nation in Pitt Meadows, B.C.
After an emergency meeting, the doomed forebears of the Katzie decided to face the coming catastrophe with as much grace as they could muster: Every adult returned to the home of their parents to wait for the end.
“Then the wind carried the smallpox sickness among them. Some crawled away into the woods to die; many died in their homes,” Old Pierre told the anthropologist Diamond Jenness in 1936."
"Just as the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, smallpox began sweeping through Patriot strongholds and encampments...The epidemic soon broke out of the war-torn coastal areas and began penetrating inland, surging across indigenous trading networks and passing between warring enemies.
Before the Revolutionary War was over, its epidemiological offshoot had surged as far as Mexico and was scything its way through the Canadian Prairies."
What indeed would steppe people harboring the plague have to do with the mesolithic thousands of years earlier?