[Sca-cooks] Tracing food consumption through istopic analysis of bones
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Fri Jan 25 12:52:10 PST 2013
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
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tation%5E100.0+fullTitle%3Aalimentation%5E140.0+summary%3Aalimentation+autho
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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
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