ArticleRoyal Society open science2026
Evidence of sheeppox in seventeenth-to nineteenth-century France: a multi-disciplinary investigation of a sheep mass mortality assemblage.
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- Evidence of sheeppox in seventeenth-to nineteenth-century France: a multi-disciplinary investigation of a sheep mass mortality assemblage.Royal Society open science · 2026Article
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Abstract
Epizootic outbreaks posed major threats to food security, economic stability and animal welfare in past communities. While these events and their impacts are well documented in historical records, very few archaeological examples are known, and none for which the causal agent has been reliably identified. We therefore investigated a seventeenth-to nineteenth-century ovine mass-mortality assemblage from Louvres, France, using an interdisciplinary approach integrating palaeogenetics, zooarchaeology, history and veterinary science. The deposit contained nine complete, articulated sheep skeletons, mostly older individuals of both sexes, which were unbutchered but displayed flaying marks. Aside from minor age-related lesions and one ectopic bone nodule, the animals exhibited good skeletal health, with no obvious cause of death. Ancient DNA analysis was therefore conducted and proved highly successful, conclusively identifying two ovine pathogens: sheeppox virus (SPPV) and the parasite
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