A History of Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere

这项研究的目的是分析健康和营养 在西半球的地位从前哥伦布时代到 在世纪早期使用骨骼数据。 骨骼 来自100到200个城市的10，000到15，000个人的证据 将被汇编成一个共同的格式，并在一个索引摘要 生物生活水平，其中包括一个 个体的生命长度和生物生命质量。 研究将由17个跨学科团队进行， 将使用共同的方法， 在俄亥俄州举行的一次会议上达成谅解 大学 会议的一个主要目的是达成 就数据报告协议达成一致，确保所有数据 采用适合编码和比较分析的形式， 它将包括关于骨骼生物学方法的研讨会， 经济史学家和经济史问题研讨会 对于生物考古学家来说。 各小组将编写报告， 特定地区、时期或 种族群体。 指数和相关计量表 将作为报告的内容提供给各小组 这将测试关于生物学的替代假设， 社会经济变化的影响。 这个项目很重要，因为 它将开发新的方法来分析和理解 长期经济福利的变化。

The purpose of this research is to analyze health and nutrition status in the Western Hemisphere from pre-Columbian times to the early twentieth century using skeletal data. The skeletal evidence from 10,000 to 15,000 individuals at 100 to 200 cites will be complied into a common format and summarized in an index of biological standard of living, which incorporates an individual's length of life and biological quality of life. Research will be conducted by 17 interdisciplinary teams that will use a common methodology and gain interdisciplinary understanding at a conference to be held at Ohio State University. A major purpose of the conference is to reach agreement on data reporting protocols, which assure that all data are in a form suitable for coding and comparative analysis, and it will include seminars on methods of skeletal biology for economic historians and seminars on issues in economic history for bioarcheologists. The teams will prepare reports on the health and nutrition of particular regions, time periods, or ethnic groups. Tabulations of the index and related measures will be made available to the teams as ingredients in reports that will test alternative hypotheses concerning the biological impact of socioeconomic change. The project is important because it will develop new methods for analyzing and understanding changes in long-term economic well being.