Preindustrial Public HealthJul 4, 2025

Currently underway in Antas Valley, Sardinia: excavations and fieldwork to explore the material and geochemical legacies of manual mining in the 12th-14th centuries. Here: Prof Guy Geltner and A/Prof Giovanna Bianchi carrying equipment for the dig.

#pxrf #archaeology #mining #history

Preindustrial Public HealthJun 23, 2025
(3/4) Literature of preindustrial mining in Europe evidences long-term pollution impacts, from the loss of fish in nearby lakes and rivers (Falun copper mine) to the desertification of forests (Błędów Desert). But new tools allow us to better understand the depths of these impacts. #pxrf #envhist
Preindustrial Public HealthNov 9, 2024

In May, a group of researchers conducted a geochemical survey in the Antas Valley, Iglesiente region, Sardinia, to explore the environmental (and health) impacts of pre-industrial mining from a silver-mining boom in the 12-14th centuries.

#preindustrial #pxrf #medieval

Preindustrial Public HealthMay 24, 2024
For 2 weeks in May, a multidisciplinary #research team of archaeologists, historians, heritage specialists, and a materials engineer, collected, analysed, + mapped the toxic legacies of the #Iglesiente #mining region. From Monash faculties of Arts, and Engineering and IT, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, and École française de Rome.
#gis #spatialhistory #pXrf
Preindustrial Public HealthMay 14, 2024
What does doing research look like?
A #multidisciplinary group of historians, archaeologists plus, currently conducting fieldwork in historic #mining area in Iglesias, Sardinia. Using #pXrf to analyse #soil environmental legacies of #medieval mining + metallurgy.