title: Anthropometric methods and the interdisciplinary conversation between archaeology and economics
creator: Koepke, Nikola
creator: Baten, Joerg
subject: ddc-930
subject: Alte Geschichte, Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Archäologie
subject: History of the ancient world to ca. 499 [T930]
description: In this paper we use possibilities of interdisciplinary work between archaeology and economics, focusing on the development of European living standard in terms of nutritional status in long-run perspective (1st to 18th century AD), and its determinants. We applied anthropometric methods using a data set of nearly 9500 human height measurements as proxy for mean nutritional status, and a data set of more than 2 million animal bones to measure the impact of changes in cattle production. Milk cattle husbandry, interacted with sparse population density, has had positive effects on mean height: (1) Proximity to protein production resulted in a low local shadow price of milk, as it could not be transported over distances. (2) This low price resulted in a low inequality of nutritional status; in contrast pork induced nutritional inequality, because it could be preserved and traded, thus becoming expensive and affordable only for the rich.
contributor: Posluschny, A.
contributor: Lambers, K.
contributor: Herzog, I.
date: 2008
type: Book Section
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/525/1/11_01_koepke_et_al_conversation.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/propylaeumdok.00000525
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-propylaeumdok-5254
identifier:   Koepke, Nikola ; Baten, Joerg  (2008) Anthropometric methods and the interdisciplinary conversation between archaeology and economics.   In: Posluschny, A. ; Lambers, K. ; Herzog, I. (Hrsgg.):  Layers of Perception. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Berlin, 2.-6. April 2007. Koll. Vor- u. Frühgesch. 10.   Bonn 2008, pp. 345-352        
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/525/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng