Workshop: Skeletal Biology, Health, and Economic Development, Ohio State University

该项目组织了利用骨骼遗骸研究欧洲过去几千年人类健康模式的努力，骨骼遗骸是关于遥远过去的最完整和最有用的信息来源，其中包含有关儿童时期的营养和身体发育以及与衰老有关的退化过程的信息，包括龋齿和退行性关节疾病。健康和营养是社会、政治和经济变革的驱动力，这些变革最终促成了文明的兴衰。对史前和历史骨骼的研究也促进了对各种现代医学问题的理解，因为许多现代疾病是随着人类进化而来的，适应了生活在各种生态环境中的人和动物。研讨会将把20到25名学者带到俄亥俄州立大学，其中包括体质人类学家、考古学家、经济学家、气候历史学家和历史学家。他们将计划一项研究议程，首先讨论准备一个大型数据库的细节，该数据库记录欧洲健康的长期演变。他们还将制定一项计划，将框架信息与气候、生态、考古和历史数据结合起来，研究健康模式及其决定因素。欧洲被选为起点，因为它拥有最丰富的其他历史信息来源。这些努力将导致提交一份大笔拨款提案，为实际开展这项研究提供资金。研究成果将通过书籍、期刊出版物、会议和互联网向公众分发。

This project organizes efforts to study patterns of human health in Europe over the past several millennia using skeletal remains, which are the most complete and useful source of information about the distant past, containing information on nutrition and physical growth during childhood as well as processes of degeneration associated with aging, including dental decay and degenerative joint disease. Health and nutrition were driving forces in social, political and economic change that ultimately contributed to the rise and fall of civilizations. Research on prehistoric and historic skeletons also advances understanding of various modern medical problems because numerous modern diseases evolved with humans, adapting to people living in proximity to one another and to animals in a wide variety of ecological environments. The workshop will bring 20 to 25 scholars to Ohio State University, including physical anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, climate historians and historians. They will plan a research agenda by first discussing details of preparing a large database that documents the long-term evolution of health in Europe. They will also formulate a plan for integrating and skeletal information with climatic, ecological, archaeological and historical data in the study of health patterns and their determinants. Europe is chosen as a starting point as it has the richest source of other historical information. These efforts will lead to submission of a large grant proposal that will provide funding to actually conduct the research. The research results will be distributed to the public through books, journal publications, conferences, and via the Internet.