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  "id": 15880878,
  "title": "To Understand Social Divides in Medieval England, Archaeologists Examined Tooth Enamel From Lead Mining Communities",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/to-understand-social-divides-in-medieval-england-archaeologists",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-21T11:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/to-understand-social-divides-in-medieval-england-archaeologists-examined-tooth-enamel-from-lead-mining-communities-180989722/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Some residents of the Peaks District in the 13th century may have experienced worse lead pollution than city-dwellers during the Industrial Revolution. Female skeletons showed higher lead levels and earlier ages of death",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}