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Bytes Europe · This Medieval Bear in Romania Was A Victim of Human Lead PollutionWe don’t know how the the life of this bear was, but its end came in the darkness, at the bottom of a pit in a narrow Romanian cave. There were no claw marks on the stone, no signs of a struggle, just the silence of a pitfall trap that offered no return. But this brown bear’s death, sometime around the year 845, didn’t mark the end of its story. A thousand years later, its jaws would tell a toxic tale — one that challenges what we thought we knew about when humans began poisoning the planet. Context of the