Anatolia and its environs have been known since the early periods of history as the places where human communities settled. After all, this geography, where natural resources are abundant, the soil fertile and the air warm, is ideal for life. quite handy have conditions. That’s why Göbeklitepe is one of the oldest settlements, that’s why our country is full of historical ruins.

communities that used to live in this area. on the rest Scientific studies continue. The information obtained in these studies also allowed us to gain a different perspective on the collapse of past civilizations.

Rifle, Germ and Steel have been proved right again

Jared Diamond’s must read Gun, germ and steelHe attributed the success of the settlers in America to weapons, steel and microbes. The natives, whose immune systems until then were not as developed as the Europeans, and who had never encountered most of the diseases in Europe, could be broken by epidemics, even due to diseases that did not affect the Europeans. from Greece Crete Excavations on the island show that this situation worked in a similar way in ancient civilizations.

on the island Aya Haralambos works on the remains found in the cave called (his church is also in Çeşme, with the difference of Webtekno, you can learn more about the works in our geography in a news article), Gunnar Neumann of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and his team conducted several studies of the bones found in the cave. Following these reviews plague and typhoid found traces of his illness.

Until now as the culprit in the collapse of ancient civilizations climate change and breakup of alliances was shown. According to the researchers, the new findings also reveal the impact of diseases. Because it seems there were epidemics on the island long before we knew it.

Typhus and plague, which leave no traces on bones under normal circumstances, were discovered because they were primitive and extinct versions. Research Current Biology was published in the magazine.