[Sca-cooks] Tracing food consumption through istopic analysis of bones

Ian Kusz sprucebranch at gmail.com
Fri Jan 25 14:49:50 PST 2013


funny; when they examine my bones, all they'll find is a bunch of twinkies.

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:52 PM, <JIMCHEVAL at aol.com> wrote:

> I imagine we all know in a general way that the rich ate more meat than the
>  poor in our time; I only recently learned that meat consumption overall
> went up  in France at the end of the medieval period.
>
> For those who read French,  this article - which looks at English and
> German sites as well - provides  isotopic analyses of skeletons which
> confirm all
> this in a more concrete  way:
>
> Reconstitution des comportements alimentaires aux époques historiques  en
> Europe à partir de l'analyse isotopique d'ossements  humains
>
>
>
> http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rbph_0035-0818_2002_n
>
> um_80_4_4676?luceneQuery=%28%2B%28content%3Aisotopiques+title%3Aisotopiques%
>
> 5E2.0+fullContent%3Aisotopiques%5E100.0+fullTitle%3Aisotopiques%5E140.0+summ
>
> ary%3Aisotopiques+authors%3Aisotopiques%5E5.0+illustrations%3Aisotopiques%5E
>
> 4.0+bibrefs%3Aisotopiques%5E4.0+toctitles%3Aisotopiques%5E4.0+toctitles1%3Ai
>
> sotopiques%5E3.0+toctitles2%3Aisotopiques%5E2.0+toctitles3%3Aisotopiques%29+
>
> %2B%28content%3Aalimentation+title%3Aalimentation%5E2.0+fullContent%3Aalimen
>
> tation%5E100.0+fullTitle%3Aalimentation%5E140.0+summary%3Aalimentation+autho
>
> rs%3Aalimentation%5E5.0+illustrations%3Aalimentation%5E4.0+bibrefs%3Aaliment
>
> ation%5E4.0+toctitles%3Aalimentation%5E4.0+toctitles1%3Aalimentation%5E3.0+t
>
> octitles2%3Aalimentation%5E2.0+toctitles3%3Aalimentation%29%29+AND+%28+%2Bac
>
> cess_right%3A%28free%29+%29&words=isotopiques&words=100&words=140&words=alim
> entation&words=free
>
> Jim  Chevallier
> www.chezjim.com
>
> Newly translated from Pierre Jean-Baptiste  Le Grand d'Aussy:
> Eggs, Cheese and Butter in Old Regime France
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sca-cooks mailing list
> Sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/sca-cooks-ansteorra.org
>



-- 
Ian of Oertha



More information about the Sca-cooks mailing list