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They took care of their sick, cleaned, did rituals, and moved out of the area if they could. They were more resigned to early death, and, before germ theory, they didn't really focus on individual infections. Kentucky fired cannons to scare away the cholera in the "bad air."
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Without an understanding of modern medicine, pandemics were viewed through the lens of magic or retribution of the gods. Survivors often sought retribution against neighboring tribes.
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Those able would leave the city for countryside estates during the plague season. The sick died in their houses and the houses marked; those from afar who carried those remains to mass graves after the outbreak gained noble titles. AFAIK London's 1666 fire solved it for the Brits
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To determine that you would need to identify a epidemic pathogen that made its presence detectable in the palaeoarchaeological record so that you could observe that these were 'their' burial practices at such times.
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Isolate the sick is the closest there is to a common answer. Lepers' colonies etc. Supply of food/water depending on wealth and benevolence of community. 'Sacrifice' of those that tended to the sick/chikdren died too (e.g. women in India, 1918).
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Been reading how Romans handled disease. It seems they didn't do to well on that end. ancient.eu/Antonine_Plagu but hard to say exactly what they did due to lack of archaeological dig sites theatlantic.com/science/archiv Might get this book: aeon.co/ideas/how-clim TL;DR: they died.
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I used to live in an old lepar colony. Obviously, had been developed a lot since then. It's named Burton Lazars, after Lazarus, the lepar from the Bible.
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