Combining Written and Tree-Ring Evidence to Trace Past Food Crises: A Case Study from Finland
Combining Written and Tree-Ring Evidence to Trace Past Food Crises: A Case Study from Finland
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结合书面证据和年轮证据来追踪过去的粮食危机：芬兰的案例研究
DOI：
10.1007/978-3-319-54337-6_3
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Heli Huhtamaa
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作者：
Heli Huhtamaa
在世界许多地方，缺乏关于人口和粮食供应的书面原始材料阻碍了对中世纪和近代早期粮食危机的研究。本文以16和17世纪的芬兰为例，探讨了如何利用间接证据——即所谓的代理数据——来识别过去的粮食危机。过去气候、粮食收成、储存能力和人口变异的代用指标来自树木年轮研究和早期的行政记录。来自“自然”和书面档案的证据相互补充。通过将16世纪和17世纪的例子与19世纪60年代有更好记录的饥荒时期进行比较，进一步讨论了使用代理数据追踪过去粮食危机的适用性和局限性。研究发现，树木年轮数据和早期行政记录为确定过去的粮食危机提供了宝贵的材料。
The lack of written source material on population and food availability has hindered studies on medieval and early modern food crises in many parts of the world. Examining the case of sixteenth and seventeenth century Finland, this article explores how indirect evidence—so called proxy data—could be used to identify past food crises. The proxies of past climate, grain harvest, storage capacity and population variability were derived from tree-ring studies and early administrative accounts. Evidence from “natural” and written archives supplemented each other. The applicability and limitations of using proxy data to trace past food crises is further discussed by comparing the examples of the sixteenth and seventeenth century to the better documented famine period of the 1860s. It was found that tree-ring data and early administrative accounts provides valuable material to identify past food crises.
影响因子：
8.9
作者：
Cowtan, Kevin;Way, Robert G.
通讯作者：
Way, Robert G.