The coronavirus epidemic, like those before it, will alter the course of hi

As an archaeologist, I know that events we can’t control shape the future in ways we can’t imagine, for better and for worse, such as volcanoes erupting, like Vesuvius at Pompeii, or the Little Ice Age that led to the collapse of the Viking settlement in Greenland in the 15th century.

The coronavirus epidemic, like those before it, will alter the course of hi