A prehistoric catastrophe once replaced an entire French population
History
Deep beneath a village near Paris, ancient DNA reveals a sudden biological rupture that saw one group of pioneers vanish and a completely unrelated population take their place.
Archaeologists at the Bury site near Paris recently uncovered a genetic ghost story. Around 3200 BC, a thriving community of early farmers suddenly suffered a catastrophic collapse, marked by a spike in deaths among the young. Within a few generations, these people were gone, replaced by a new group with no genetic connection to the original inhabitants.