Archéologie de la santé, anthropologie du soin

Black Death: Cultures in Crisis

“…Among them, 16 can be confidently attributed to the Black Death, while the others are related to later plague outbreaks up to the 18th century. Burial patterns observed at these sites reveal a great diversity in the way the communities responded behaviorally to plague mortality, and progressive changes in funerary practices over the course of the second pandemic (Kacki et al 2019). They suggest that during the Black Death people generally attempted to adhere closely to traditional burial customs.…”