medievalists.net/2026/10/ancient-oaks-reveal-how-the-black-death-changed-europes-forests Ancient Oaks Reveal How the Black Death Changed Europe’s Forests
Radiocarbon dating of 47 oaks in Italy shows many of the trees took root between roughly 1400 and 1650, the centuries after the Black Death emptied the countryside. The researchers say the pandemic is the most plausible cause, since the same pulse of growth appears on a Tuscan island and in the Calabrian mountains.
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