在中世纪爱尔兰评估性别对死亡风险的影响
1Department of Anthropology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
American journal of biological anthropology
|April 9, 2025
概括
这项研究发现,中世纪爱尔兰的男性和女性死亡风险没有差异. 类似的生存率可能表明文化或环境因素抵消了女性天生的优势.
科学领域:
- 生物考古学的生物考古学
- 古人类学 (paleodemography) 是一种古人类学.
- 中世纪历史 中世纪历史
背景情况:
- 了解历史性健康差异对于重建过去的生活方式至关重要.
- 由于中世纪的爱尔兰具有独特的社会和环境条件,它为研究性别特定死亡率提供了一个独特的背景.
研究的目的:
- 评估性别对中世纪爱尔兰死亡风险的影响.
- 调查过去影响女性健康和生存的社会,生物和环境因素.
主要方法:
- 分析了来自10个中世纪早期和中世纪晚期爱尔兰考古遗址的335个个体.
- 通过过渡分析 (TA2),牙发育和体融合来估计死亡年龄.
- 通过骨盆和头骨形态特征和度量测量来估计性别.
- 应用Gompertz-Makeham危险模型来评估性别作为死亡风险的共同变量.
主要成果:
- 戈珀茨-马克汉姆危险模型没有揭示性别对死亡风险的显著影响.
- 在研究地点,没有观察到性别对死亡率影响的显著时间变化.
结论:
- 该研究未能在中世纪爱尔兰人口的死亡概况中显示出基于性别的差异.
- 性别之间类似的死亡率模式可能表明文化障碍或环境暴露抵消了典型的女性生存优势.
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