Table 1 List of samples from St. Gertrude’s Church cemetery and Riga Dome Church cemetery.

From: Yersinia pestis strains from Latvia show depletion of the pla virulence gene at the end of the second plague pandemic

Cemetery

Context

Burial no.

Osteological sex

Genetic sex

Age (years)

Yersinia pestis

St. Gertrude’s Church cemetery

Mass grave 1

G83

ND

No DNA

11–13

No DNA

G157

M

No DNA

30–35

No DNA

G488

M

M

30–35

+ 

G645

F

F

20–25

+ 

Mass grave 2

G103

ND

M

10–11

+ 

G177

ND

M

10–12

G687

M

M

45–50

Burial pit

G691

ND

F

9–11

G701

F

F

35–40

+ 

General cemetery

G41

ND

M

14–15

G92

M

M

55–60

G100

M

M

20–25

Riga Dome Church cemetery

Mass burial pit

G143b

F

F

25–30

G161c

F

M

50–60

G171c

F

ND

40–50

Collective burial pit

G184b

M

M

40–50

  1. M male, F female, ND not determinable; + /− Y. pestis-positive or negative.