Entire Populations Disappeared 3,000 Years Ago — Scientists Finally Know Where They Went

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Ancient DNA from Bury shows a severe Neolithic collapse, followed by migration into the Paris Basin.

The Evidence Came From the Bury Tomb

The Tomb Preserved Two Separate Worlds

The Genetic Connection Suddenly Breaks

The Earlier Community Faced a Crisis

Ancient Diseases Were Hiding in the Bones

Plague Was Probably Only Part of the Answer

The Landscape Shows People Were Leaving

Newcomers Arrived From the South

The Migration Moved Northward

Society Changed Along With the Population

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A tomb near Paris preserved evidence of a prehistoric population crisis so severe that the people using it before and after the disruption were largely unrelated. However, the timeline needs clarification: the collapse happened around 3000 BC, approximately 5,000 years ago, rather than 3,000 years ago.

Researchers did not discover a destination to which the original population simply relocated. Ancient DNA instead shows that local communities sharply declined, their genetic lineages largely disappeared, and migrants from southern France and the Iberian Peninsula later entered the Paris Basin.

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