Widespread Arctic lead pollution since 1000 BCE documents ancient and medieval European lead-silver smelting, major historical events, and northern-hemisphere Industrialization
Nathan Chellman1, Joseph R McConnell2, Andrew I Wilson3, Andreas Stohl4, Monica M Arienzo5, Sabine Eckhardt6, Diedrich Fritzsche7, Sepp Kipfstuhl8, Thomas Opel9, Elisabeth Thompson3, Mark Pollard3, Philip Place Jr10 and Jorgen Peder Steffensen11, (1)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)Desert Res Inst, Reno, NV, United States, (3)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (4)Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway, (5)Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, (6)Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Atmospheric and Climate Research (ATMOS), Kjeller, Norway, (7)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (8)Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany, (9)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Department of Periglacial Research, Potsdam, Germany, (10)University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States, (11)Centre for Ice and Climate, Copenhagen, Denmark