Lead pollution recorded in Greenland ice indicates European emissions tracked plagues, wars, and imp...
Lead pollution recorded in Greenland ice indicates European emissions tracked plagues, wars, and imperial expansion during antiquity
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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English
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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Lead pollution in Arctic ice reflects midlatitude emissions from ancient lead–silver mining and smelting. The few reported measurements have been extrapolated to infer the performance of ancient economies, including comparisons of economic productivity and growth during the Roman Republican and Imperial periods. These studies were based on sparse s...
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Lead pollution recorded in Greenland ice indicates European emissions tracked plagues, wars, and imperial expansion during antiquity
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_5984509
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_5984509
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
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10.1073/pnas.1721818115
