Medieval women's early involvement in manuscript production suggested by lapis lazuli identification in dental calculus.
Medieval women's early involvement in manuscript production suggested by lapis lazuli identification in dental calculus.
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牙结石中青金石的鉴定表明中世纪妇女早期参与手稿制作。
DOI：
10.1126/sciadv.aau7126
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发表时间：
2019
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影响因子：
13.6
通讯作者：
Radini A
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作者：
Radini A
在欧洲中世纪，亚洲长途贸易路线的开通引入了异国情调的商品，包括群青，一种由仅在阿富汗开采的天青石生产的明亮的蓝色颜料。这种颜料稀有且像黄金一样昂贵，改变了欧洲的调色板，但对其早期贸易或使用知之甚少。在这里，我们报告发现天青石色素保存在牙石的宗教妇女在德国放射性碳的日期为11日或12日世纪初。这种颜料的早期使用由一个宗教妇女挑战了广泛的假设，即它在中世纪欧洲的有限可用性和照明文本的性别生产。
During the European Middle Ages, the opening of long-distance Asian trade routes introduced exotic goods, including ultramarine, a brilliant blue pigment produced from lapis lazuli stone mined only in Afghanistan. Rare and as expensive as gold, this pigment transformed the European color palette, but little is known about its early trade or use. Here, we report the discovery of lapis lazuli pigment preserved in the dental calculus of a religious woman in Germany radiocarbon-dated to the 11th or early 12th century. The early use of this pigment by a religious woman challenges widespread assumptions about its limited availability in medieval Europe and the gendered production of illuminated texts.