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SUBMITTER: Monge G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4585679 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Monge Guadalupe G Jimenez-Espejo Francisco J FJ García-Alix Antonio A Martínez-Ruiz Francisca F Mattielli Nadine N Finlayson Clive C Ohkouchi Naohiko N Sánchez Miguel Cortés MC de Castro Jose María Bermúdez JM Blasco Ruth R Rosell Jordi J Carrión José J Rodríguez-Vidal Joaquín J Finlayson Geraldine G
Scientific reports 20150921
Homo species were exposed to a new biogeochemical environment when they began to occupy caves. Here we report the first evidence of palaeopollution through geochemical analyses of heavy metals in four renowned archaeological caves of the Iberian Peninsula spanning the last million years of human evolution. Heavy metal contents reached high values due to natural (guano deposition) and anthropogenic factors (e.g. combustion) in restricted cave environments. The earliest anthropogenic pollution evi ...[more]