{"id":635940,"date":"2019-10-30T09:46:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=635940"},"modified":"2019-10-30T09:46:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:46:54","slug":"isotope-analysis-finds-source-lead-poisoning-among-slaves-on-barbados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=635940","title":{"rendered":"Isotope analysis finds source lead poisoning among slaves on Barbados"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dental remains of 25 enslaved Africans from the site of Newton&#8217;s Plantation, on Barbados, were subjected to isotope analysis. Previous research had pointed out that the locally born individuals were subjected to high concentrations of lead poisoning. A new study, done by Dr. Jason Laffoon among others and published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, employed isotope analysis to find the source of the poisoning.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-10-isotope-analysis-source-poisoning-slaves.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Isotope analysis finds source lead poisoning among slaves on Barbados<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dental remains of 25 enslaved Africans from the site of Newton&#8217;s Plantation, on Barbados, were subjected to isotope analysis. Previous research had pointed out that the locally born individuals&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=635940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}