One of the most influential books that got me started thinking about prehistory was "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond.
The germs trope has resurfaced again, in a place that makes sense, but adds new insight to the historical process by which Europe, South Asia and West Asia came into their current forms.
In a podcast between Razib Khan and Dr. Kristian Kristiansen, it comes out that early Indo-Europeans brought the plague to Europe, and they discuss the role it may have played in the collapse of “Old Europe.”
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