Global exposures to air pollution and cigarette smoke are novel in human evolutionary
history and are associated with at least 12 million premature deaths per year. We investigate …

Calcium carbonate deposits from ancient water systems such as aqueducts are a hidden
archive for archaeology and environmental sciences. These deposits formed wherever …

Technological change has affected human health dating back to at least the Neolithic
agricultural revolution. Growing evidence indicates widespread environmental pollution …

Routine biosolids monitoring data provides an independent and comprehensive means to
estimate water lead release pre-, during and post-Flint Water Crisis (FWC). The mass of …

Forty years ago, in a seminal paper published in Science, Settle and Patterson used
archeological and historical data to estimate the rates of worldwide lead production since …

In geochemical data analysis, assessing the potential of new techniques to identify
compositional time–space changes is of great interest for monitoring purposes. This work …

Lechaion's inner harbour basin was constructed in the 7th-6th c. BCE and served as
Corinth's principal port for over a millennium. The harbour decline and abandonment in the …

Abstract Kariz (Qanat or Roman Aqueduct) is an old knowledge that has been used in more
than 35 countries. Kariz, previously recognized as a water management technology …

On 2019, the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral (“NDdP”) spread an unknown amount of
lead (Pb) dust from the roof of the cathedral over Paris. No data describing the geochemical …

Recent studies have utilised isotopic analysis for an understanding of the supply sources of
lead to major Roman cities in Italy to good effect. Far less attention has been focused on …