MedievalPlague-Traderoutes-CurrentPlagueReservoirs.pdf (303.23 kB)

Medieval plague outbreaks in Europe, and the main traderoutes at that time linking Europe to Asian plague reservoirs

dataset

posted on 2015-02-25, 08:03 authored by Boris V. SchmidBoris V. Schmid, Ulf Büntgen, W. Ryan Easterday, Christian Ginzler, Lars Walløe, Barbara Bramanti, Nils Chr. Stenseth

Data presented here is based on the paper

"Climate-driven introduction of the Black Death and successive plague reintroductions into Europe", in PNAS.org

Raw datasets of the medieval plague outbreaks, current-day plague reservoirs, and the compilation of medieval traderoutes (based on OWTRAD) available at Zenodo.

Note that the maps of current-day plague reservoirs were based on publically available data, are focused on Asia, and are not exhaustive. These were gathered and digitized by W. Ryan Easterday. Source articles for each of the plague foci are available in the Plague Foci Eurasia.kmz at Zenodo

Traderoute data:

Ciolek, T. Matthew. 1999 - present. Old World Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project. Canberra: www.ciolek.com - Asia Pacific Research Online.
www.ciolek.com/owtrad.html