The EUROpest project embraces interdisciplinarity through its eco-bio-social paradigm. The aim of the project is to investigate the interconnected climatic, cultural, demographic, economic, ecological, and pathogenic history of late medieval and early modern Europe to understand the various impacts of plague epidemics. To this end, EUROpest integrates various methods – archeogenetics, historical archival source analysis, paleoecology and paleoclimatology – using novel human-supervised machine-learning to identify the causal role of the factors that influenced regional plague outbreaks.

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