World's first polluted river was contaminated by Neolithic humans learning to smelt 7,000 years ago

Monday, December 5, 2016 - 16:21 in Earth & Climate

A University of Waterloo professor is among a team of international researchers who discovered a riverbed in southern Jordan that was polluted 7,000 years ago by Neolithic humans teaching themselves have to smelt.

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