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 ...

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

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

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

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

New research has uncovered the earliest traces of lead contamination caused by human activities, linking the development of ...