Earliest evidence of pollution by heavy metals in archaeological sites

Earliest evidence of pollution by heavy metals in archaeological sites

Homo species were exposed to a new biogeochemical environment when they began to occupy caves. Here we report the first evidence of palaeopollution through geochemical analyses of heavy metals in four renowned archaeological caves of the Iberian Peninsula spanning the last million years of human evo...

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Main Authors: Monge, Guadalupe, Jimenez-Espejo, Francisco J., García-Alix, Antonio, Martínez-Ruiz, Francisca, Mattielli, Nadine, Finlayson, Clive, Ohkouchi, Naohiko, Sánchez, Miguel Cortés, de Castro, Jose María Bermúdez, Blasco, Ruth, Rosell, Jordi, Carrión, José, Rodríguez-Vidal, Joaquín, Finlayson, Geraldine
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4585679/

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