Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

The Hellenic Studies Professorship in Aegean and Mediterranean Societies and Cultures was made possible through the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. In addition to attracting and ...

Learn more about the earliest evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, found in the ancient Aegean.

Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.

Colin Renfrew played a key part in transforming archaeology into a problem-oriented, theoretically explicit and ...

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated ...

A recent study conducted by geoscientists from Heidelberg University has uncovered the earliest known evidence of ...

A new study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment revealed that lead pollution in the Aegean Sea dates ...