Famine, the Black Death, and health in fourteenth-century London
In the first half of the fourteenth century two catastrophes struck the population of Europe: the Great Famine and the Black Death. The latter has been extensively studied, but much less is known about the biological effects of the Great Famine. A large assemblage of skeletal remains from one of the...
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UCL Press
2004-08-01
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| Series: | Archaeology International |
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