Variola

On the most-infamous pockylips, the geneticists since at least 2016 have been at odds with the historians - and with the archaeologists.

That's VARV to the Microsoft Excel junkies: who hopefully are rethinking their decision to use Microsoft, especially today, since Windows Defender had its autoimmune disaster. Generation-X and up, vaxxed for VARV, remember this as The Smallpox. No vaccine yet for Microsoft sadly.

Historians saw this (VARV, not Bill Gates) as a plague for the ages. The archaeologists saw the lesions on some of their remains; Rameses V, cited here. But no no no said the geneticists; it recently came out of cowpox in AD 1580. That made little sense to me given the symptoms plaguing the New World in the Apocalypto era. Some might bargain down to late-antique camelpox.

Lately we've heard: 1800 BC. Pre-Thera Bronze Age.