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"After the Plague" This page presents an archaeology project and history project from the University of Cambridge. It is about the people of medieval Cambridge. It studies their skeletons, DNA and isotopes to reveal secrets about their history, genetics and social relationships. It discusses their biographies and osteobiographies to show details of ordinary life in the Middle Ages.
Researchers spent five years studying bones from medieval Cambridge, England, to see what life was like for a cross section of the city’s survivors of the Black Death.
Bones from a Cambridge cemetery have revealed hereto unknown details about destitute users of a medieval social benefits system based in the city.
Experts use the latest techniques to analyse 500 medieval skeletons and shed light on their lives.
Researchers have given medieval Cambridge residents the ‘Richard III treatment’ to reveal the hard-knock lives of those who lived in the city during the University's earliest years.