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在古典时期的社会、文化和医学史中,现代科学为历史学家提供了大量帮助。传统历史材料和研究方法无法提供量化估算所需要的内容。对纸草学证据的谨慎运用,已经从个案研究中获得了有价值的知识。但对古代世界食物与营养的研究最有帮助的新方法还是人类骨骼遗存分析。有两种骨骼分析方法,一种是微量元素分析,另一种是骨骼结构中的稳定同位素分析。在罗马,一项对公元1世纪晚期到3世纪的大量骨骼样本的分析研究正在进行中。
In the classical social, cultural and medical history, modern science provided great help to historians. Traditional historical materials and research methods do not provide what is needed for quantitative estimation. The cautious use of papyrus evidence has yielded valuable knowledge from case studies. But the new method, which is most helpful in the study of food and nutrition in the ancient world, is the analysis of human skeletal remains. There are two methods of bone analysis, one is trace element analysis and the other is stable isotope analysis in bone structure. In Rome, an analysis of a large number of bone samples from the late 1th century to the 3rd century is underway.