the plague wiped out the Stonehenge/Megalith culture
yet genetic evidence showed it repeatedly caused large-scale outbreaks between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago. Populations collapsed, megasettlements were abandoned, and entire regions declined for centuries. The mechanism behind this spread remained unknown. The sheep provided the missing link. It belonged to the Sintashta culture, highly mobile Bronze Age pastoralists who revolutionized Eurasia through horse domestication, large herds, and long-distance seasonal movement. Their economy created a deadly transmission chain: plague persisted naturally in wild rodents, infected grazing livestock, and then spilled into humans through daily contact during herding, milking, butchering, and wool processing.
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