Anthropology.netA clay pipe, a strain of Y. pestis, and 15 sets of worn-out bones: new research from Basel links plague mortality to child labor and social exclusion in 17th-century Switzerland. The inequality was skeletal. #Bioarchaeology #PlagueHistory #SocialInequality @antiquity.ac.uk https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-unequal-dead-child-labor-plague
The Unequal Dead: Child Labor, Plague, and Social Survival in Early Modern Basel
New bioarchaeological analysis of a 17th-century hospital cemetery shows that plague mortality fell hardest on young laborers already depleted by a lifetime of physical work.