Peat bogs, the natural archives of mining fallout, reveal ancient Europe’s hidden metal networks
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- For thousands of years, humans shaped their world with stone, wood and bone. Metallurgy, the art and science of working with metals such as copper, bronze and iron, marked a turning point in human history. The mining that fueled metalworking also shaped Europe's and the Mediterranean's economies…