Rats, Communications, and Plague: Toward an Ecological History
During the last twenty years, archaeozoological research has significantly transformed the picture of the black rat ( rattus rattus ) in classical antiquity and medieval Europe. These new data, in conjunction with extant texts from these periods, make a great contribution to the understanding of the...
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ftharvardudash:oai:dash.harvard.edu:1/3208221 2023-05-15T18:05:03+02:00 Rats, Communications, and Plague: Toward an Ecological History McCormick, Michael 2003 application/pdf http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3208221 https://doi.org/10.1162/002219503322645439 en_US eng MIT Press http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002219503322645439 Journal of Interdisciplinary History McCormick, Michael. 2003. Rats, communications, and plague: Toward an ecological history. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34, no. 1: 1-25. 1530-9169 1063-6145 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3208221 doi:10.1162/002219503322645439 2003 ftharvardudash https://doi.org/10.1162/002219503322645439 2022-04-04T12:42:09Z During the last twenty years, archaeozoological research has significantly transformed the picture of the black rat ( rattus rattus ) in classical antiquity and medieval Europe. These new data, in conjunction with extant texts from these periods, make a great contribution to the understanding of the bubonic plagues of the sixth and the fourteenth centuries, as well as to the history of the communications and economic systems linking the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. The study of ancient rats and their colonization extends the temporal and geographical groundwork for a fully historical global ecology. History Other/Unknown Material Rattus rattus Harvard University: DASH - Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard Indian The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34 1 1 25 |
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During the last twenty years, archaeozoological research has significantly transformed the picture of the black rat ( rattus rattus ) in classical antiquity and medieval Europe. These new data, in conjunction with extant texts from these periods, make a great contribution to the understanding of the bubonic plagues of the sixth and the fourteenth centuries, as well as to the history of the communications and economic systems linking the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. The study of ancient rats and their colonization extends the temporal and geographical groundwork for a fully historical global ecology. History |
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