Changes in human effective population size overlap the beginning and end of a critical time in European medieval history, also characterized by the Black Death epidemic
Journal: Human Population Genetics and Genomics
Year: 2023

The intersection of historiography and archaeology has long pondered over the impact of known historical events on census size. In recent times, genetic methods have successfully traced changes over time in the genetic size of a given population. Moreover, the correlation between genetic and census sizes of a population is contingent on several demographic assumptions that are relatively simple for our species. Our research endeavours to examine the changes in effective population size (Ne) in a