Status and gender differences in diet at Mound 72, Cahokia, revealed by isotopic analysis of bone
Status and gender differences in diet at Mound 72, Cahokia, revealed by isotopic analysis of bone
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10.1016/s0278-4165(03)00036-9
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发表时间：
2003-09-01
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1.8
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Krueger, HW
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作者：
Ambrose, SH;Buikstra, J;Krueger, HW
Cahokia Mound 72包含272个人类墓葬，可追溯到Lohmann和早期斯特林阶段（约200年）。公元1050-1150年）密西西比时期。在埋葬方式上，与地位和性别有关的重大差异是显而易见的。一些墓葬与大量有声望的随葬品有关，表明地位很高。年轻成年女性的乱葬坑，骨骼健康状况不佳的指标表明低地位和营养压力。骨胶原的氮同位素比值表明，地位高的人吃了更多的动物蛋白，但胶原的碳同位素比值表明，这些人只吃了约10%的动物蛋白。玉米比地位较低的个体少10%。磷灰石碳同位素显示地位低的女性大约吃。60%以上的玉米比高地位的个人，这证实了大的氮同位素差异的女性在万人坑。这些结果表明，高和低地位的个人有显着不同的饮食组成和营养品质。稳定同位素证据支持古病理学数据的状态相关的差异，在健康和牙齿形态学数据的假定遗传差异的起源。这些数据还有助于深入了解大卡霍基亚地区这一复杂酋长领地的住区区域等级组织和社会不平等的营养和健康方面。(C)2003年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
Cahokia Mound 72 contains 272 human burials dating to the Lohmann and early Stirling phases (ca. 1050-1150 AD) of the Mississippian period. Substantial status- and gender-related differences in burial style are apparent. Some burials are associated with large quantities of prestigious grave goods, suggesting high status. Mass graves of young adult females with skeletal indicators of poor health suggest low status and nutritional stress. Nitrogen isotope ratios of bone collagen show that high status individuals ate much more animal protein, but carbon isotope ratios of collagen suggest these individuals ate only ca. 10% less maize than lower status individuals. Apatite carbon isotopes show low status females ate ca. 60% more maize than high status individuals, which confirms the large nitrogen isotope difference of females in mass graves. These results indicate high and low status individuals had significantly different diet compositions and nutritional qualities. The stable isotope evidence supports paleopathological data for status-related differences in health, and dental morphological data for presumed genetic differences in origin. These data also provide insights into the nutrition- and health-related dimension of regional hierarchical organization of settlements and social inequality of this complex chiefdom in the greater Cahokia region. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.