In May 2024, a multidisciplinary team of researchers carried out a geochemical landscape survey campaign in the Iglesiente historic mining region, in Sardinia. These included Guy Geltner, member for our ARC project, “Pursuing Public Health in the Preindustrial World”, as well as staff and students from Monash University, École français de Rome, and Università degli Studi di Cagliari, such as Nicolas Minvielle Larousse, Hilary Gopnik, Erin Brodie, and Céline Tomczyk. This project falls under our 2024 Incubator project funded by Monash University, “The Forgotten Silver Age of Sardinia: Miners, metallurgy and the environment in the Iglesias region, 12th-14th centuries” which aims to map the toxic legacies of preindustrial mining in Sardinia by locating the deposition of heavy metals. See more information on the project here, and a highlight of our photos here.
