Researchers found proof of lead production increases and decreases in Alpine ice cores.
The BBC has a story here and a link to the article in Antiquity
So be careful with any miasmas created by your industrial production!
Researchers found proof of lead production increases and decreases in Alpine ice cores.
The BBC has a story here and a link to the article in Antiquity
So be careful with any miasmas created by your industrial production!
I believe it - in Why Nations Fail, they pointed out that you can see lead pollution via ice core samples peak and then decrease throughout the Roman Empire's rise and fall. I believe the Ice Cores were from Greenland.
Yeah, there's not much else than lead mining/smelting that would produce measurable lead levels in ice cores.
Note that Mythic Locations has one of its featured sites as a Roman lead mining operation.