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Bronze Age societies

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What experts have said about Bronze Age societies

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  1. David ReichNegativeMay 8, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    Bronze Age population density and animal contact increased infectious-disease pressures.

    In the Bronze Age, there was an intensification of how people lived with much higher population densities, people living more and more next to their animals and getting their diseases and exchanging their diseases with them and with each other.

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    Open the episode · David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution

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