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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2024

Modelling cultural responses to disease spread in Neolithic Trypillia mega-settlements.

R Alexander Bentley, Simon Carrignon, Bisserka Gaydarska, John Chapman, Brian Buchanan, Michael J O'Brien

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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6 authors.

R Alexander BentleyDepartment of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN37996, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9086-2197
Simon CarrignonMcDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, CambridgeCB2 3DZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4416-1389
Bisserka GaydarskaDepartment of Archaeology, Durham University, DurhamDH1 3LE, UK.
John ChapmanDepartment of Archaeology, Durham University, DurhamDH1 3LE, UK.
Brian BuchananDepartment of Geosciences, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA99004, USA.
Michael J O'BrienDepartment of History, Philosophy, and Geography and Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, San Antonio, TX78224, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6433-8295

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As zoonotic diseases coevolved with early agriculture, social distancing within dense human settlements could have conferred a selective advantage in terms of infection risk. Here, we consider the case of Trypillia mega-settlements after 4000 BC, as virulent diseases began affecting humans in the Black Sea region. Through epidemiological susceptible-infected-recovered-susceptible (SIRS) models situated on clustered networks and on a site plan of a Trypillia mega-settlement, we show the adaptive benefits of decreasing either occupation density or the frequency of interactions with other communities across the settlement. We explore critical thresholds in these parameters that may shed light on the fluctuations of population densities at Trypillia mega-settlements before and after approximately 3600 BCE. Our findings suggest that disease was probably a significant driver of human settlement patterns by late Neolithic times.

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ancient diseasecultural evolutionepidemiologysocial distancingsusceptible-infected-recovered-susceptible

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PMID41747276
PMCPMC11479766

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