The Wenner-Gren Foundation approved the financing of the project “Heavy metal: Rural and urban lead exposure during the Roman Empire“, led by dr. Mario Novak. The one-year project was financed as part of the Post PhD Research Grant competition. The main goal of the project is to investigate the role and consequences of lead poisoning in rural and urban communities from the area of the Roman province of Dalmatia. Collaborators on the project are also employees of the Institute for Anthropological research, dr. Miran Čoklo and dr. Mario Carić and Prof. Anna Osterholtz, Mississippi State University, USA.
