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Volcanic air pollution and mortality in France 1783–1784
Please notes this not the presentation order Events, Temporalities and Landscapes in Iceland .............................................................. 2! Oscar Aldred and Gavin Lucas, University of Iceland, Iceland... more
Please notes this not the presentation order Events, Temporalities and Landscapes in Iceland .............................................................. 2! Oscar Aldred and Gavin Lucas, University of Iceland, Iceland ..................................... 2! The AD 79 eruption of Mt Vesuvius: a significant or insignificant event? ........................ 2! Penelope Allison, University of Leicester, UK .............................................................. 2! Mad Builder or Architect of Social Change? Eventful Archaeology, the Heuneburg Mudbrick Wall and the Early Iron Age of Southwest Germany ................................................ 2! Bettina Arnold, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin ................................. 2! A Paleohistorical Approach to Paleolithic Structural Changes .......................................... 3! Françoise Audouze, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France .................. 3! “Eventful Archaeology? An Annaliste...
... events." which could also have been associated with and human settlement in the peatlands. ... eruption and archeological event is unlikely to be attainable in prehistoric archeology as practiced ... and the global crisis of the... more
... events." which could also have been associated with and human settlement in the peatlands. ... eruption and archeological event is unlikely to be attainable in prehistoric archeology as practiced ... and the global crisis of the late second millennium BC: Current archaeology, v. 117. ...
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A peat monolith representing up to 4,000 years of peat accumulation near Manchester, England, was collected. Major and trace elements were analysed with XRF and for Cd and Pb in the deeper samples with GF-AAS following acid digestion. Pb... more
A peat monolith representing up to 4,000 years of peat accumulation near Manchester, England, was collected. Major and trace elements were analysed with XRF and for Cd and Pb in the deeper samples with GF-AAS following acid digestion. Pb isotopic composition was measured with TIMS and ICP-MS. The results show a pollution since the Roman Period due to local lead
A peat core from Lindow bog near Manchester, England, was precisely cut into 2 cm slices to provide a high-resolution reconstruction of atmospheric Pb deposition. Radiocarbon and (210)Pb age dates show that the peat core represents the... more
A peat core from Lindow bog near Manchester, England, was precisely cut into 2 cm slices to provide a high-resolution reconstruction of atmospheric Pb deposition. Radiocarbon and (210)Pb age dates show that the peat core represents the period ca. 2000 BC to AD 1800. Eleven radiocarbon age dates of bulk peat samples reveal a linear age-depth relationship with an average temporal resolution of 18.5 years per cm, or 37 years per sample. Using the Pb/Ti ratio to calculate the rates of anthropogenic, atmospheric Pb deposition, the profile reveals Pb contamination first appearing in peat samples dating from ca. 900 BC which clearly pre-date Roman mining activities. Using TIMS, MC-ICP-MS, and SF-ICP-MS to measure the isotopic composition of Pb, the (208)Pb/(206)Pb and (206)Pb/(207)Pb data indicate that English ores were the predominant sources during the pre-Roman, Roman, and Medieval Periods. The study shows that detailed studies of peat profiles from ombrotrophic bogs, using appropriate preparatory and analytical methods, can provide new insight into the timing, intensity, and predominant sources of atmospheric Pb contamination, even in samples dating from ancient times.
... Here, these data are combined with information on concentrations of copper and lead in the skeletal remains to elucidate the administrative structure of locally-derived workers at Roman and Byzantine labor camps and determine the... more
... Here, these data are combined with information on concentrations of copper and lead in the skeletal remains to elucidate the administrative structure of locally-derived workers at Roman and Byzantine labor camps and determine the cause of bioaccumulation of these heavy ...
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