tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post3826761630768538948..comments2024-03-28T06:30:58.474-07:00Comments on Old European culture: Burned house horizon oldeuropeanculturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07880222013739472782noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-77833909930253314952023-06-03T18:29:11.655-07:002023-06-03T18:29:11.655-07:00Thank you, for incorporating paleogenetics into th...Thank you, for incorporating paleogenetics into the “Old Europe” anthropological mystery. This, I think, provides logical answers for observed facts and the best working theory for the Burned House Horizon. Other published papers have commented on the role of Y. pestis is Neolithic and Eneolithic Europe, but not directly on the practice of burning your entire community to the ground periodically.<br />Plague outbreaks are very deadly, highly transmissible, with limited immunity developing in survivors, although a protective genetic mutation in some people in Europe has been widely been passed on to kindreds.<br />It is reasonable the think that communities would respond to this recurring threat by fleeing elsewhere or trying to fortify against the plague. It is logical also the think that those who remained discovered that an intense (sterilizing) fire worked to rid the area of fleas and the infected host, without understanding why. (Good highly productive agricultural land was scarce at that time.)<br />Y. pestis has traveled westward from its likely historic endemic home in East Asia, possibly Yunnan area, according to Chinese records, over trade routes across the Central and Western steppes for millennia. Some Steppe nomadic burial mounds have yielded Y. pestis from tooth enamel.* <br />*Zimmer C (2015-10-22). "In Ancient DNA, Evidence of Plague Much Earlier Than Previously Known". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Kleiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01841633457192912285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-69460903010738011512021-11-22T01:06:35.888-08:002021-11-22T01:06:35.888-08:00I don't know, but ethnographic records show th...I don't know, but ethnographic records show that people who had to deal with this problem thought this was an effective solution...Old European Culturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04958126874889654661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-71604015597356576282021-11-21T08:56:32.982-08:002021-11-21T08:56:32.982-08:00How would the villagers burning down their sites k...How would the villagers burning down their sites keep the rats from fleeing the massive fires? <br />Rats would scurry out to save themselves, and bring their infected fleas with them.<br /> Kiki Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05249866056266067728noreply@blogger.com