Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7441859 | Journal of Archaeological Science | 2015 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
Numerous factors may have partially contributed to the population's inferred poisoning, due to the complex interaction of various environmental sources of arsenic and human behaviours. Increased exposure to arsenic could relate to climatic variability influencing sources of drinking water or anthropogenic activities such as mining and metallurgy or dietary changes associated with agriculture. Assessment of these potential sources of arsenic toxication, including evaluation of modern environmental data from the region, suggests contaminated drinking water was the most likely cause of arseniasis.
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Authors
Jaime Swift, Matthew L. Cupper, Alan Greig, Michael C. Westaway, Chris Carter, Calogero M. Santoro, Rachel Wood, Geraldine E. Jacobsen, Fiona Bertuch,