Ancient DNA from Yersinia pestis has been identified in skeletons at four urban burial grounds in Cambridge, England, and at a nearby rural cemetery. Dating to between ad 1349 and 1561, these represent individuals who died of plague during the second pandemic. Most come from normative individual burials, rather than mass graves. This pattern represents a major advance in archaeological knowledge, shifting focus away from a few exceptional discoveries of mass burials to what was normal practice in most medieval contexts. Detailed consideration of context allows the authors to identify a range of burial responses to the second pandemic within a single town and its hinterland. This permits the creation of a richer and more varied narrative than has previously been possible.

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超越瘟疫坑：利用遗传学识别中世纪剑桥郡对瘟疫的反应

古代DNA来自鼠疫耶尔森菌在英格兰剑桥的四个城市墓地和附近的农村公墓中发现了骷髅。约会之间广告1349 年和 1561 年，这些代表在第二次大流行期间死于鼠疫的人。大多数来自规范的个人墓葬，而不是万人坑。这种模式代表了考古知识的重大进步，将焦点从少数大规模墓葬的特殊发现转移到大多数中世纪背景下的正常做法。对背景的详细考虑使作者能够确定在一个城镇及其腹地内对第二次大流行的一系列埋葬反应。这允许创建比以前更丰富、更多样化的叙述。