Race, Population Affinity, and Mortality Risk during the Second Plague Pandemic in Fourteenth-Century London, England
Rebecca Redfern,
Sharon N. DeWitte,
Joseph T. Hefner
et al.
Abstract:We investigate whether hazards of death from plague and physiological stress at a fourteenth-century plague cemetery (Royal Mint, London) differed between populations using N = 49 adults whose affiliation was established using macromorphoscopic traits. Compared to a nonplague cemetery (N = 96), there was a greater proportion of people of estimated African affiliation in the plague burials. Cox proportional hazards analysis revealed higher hazards of death from plague for those with estimated African affiliatio… Show more
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