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Ancient teeth show history of epidemics is much older than we thought – The Washington Post

Paleogenomics — a nascent science field — provides evidence suggesting that early plagues forced societies to make epoch-defining transformations.

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Now, paleogenomics a nascent field that studies DNA in remnants of ancient teeth is rewriting the first chapter of humanitys entanglement with disease to thousands of years older than originally thought. The growing evidence suggests that these first epidemics forced societies to make epoch-defining transformations.
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