A recent excavation at a 16th-century cemetery in Huanchaco, Peru, has uncovered the remains of two toddlers whose bones bear the marks of smallpox, revealing key information about the spread of infectious diseases caused by European colonization during the early colonial period. The findings were published in the a study in the June 2024 edition of the International Journal of Paleopathology.The remarkably well-preserved remains were uncovered in a recently discovered cemetery dating…
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