同位素视角下中华文明和中华民族共同体形成与发展的物质基础

The Material Foundation for the Occurrence and Development of Chinese Civilization and Chinese National Community in the Isotopic Perspective

了解中华文明和中华民族共同体形成和发展的物质基础,尤其是其中的“饮食文化基因”,是探讨中华文明和中华民族形成与发展史的重要组成部分,也是回答“何以中国”问题的关键所在。近年来,我国蓬勃发展的稳定同位素生物考古学研究积累了大量的同位素数据,为我们揭示我国先民的生存策略提供了前所未有的良机。通过对北方地区中华文明形成期和中华民族形成期人骨同位素数据的收集、梳理和分析,我们可以发现,粟作农业是中华文明和中华民族共同体形成和发展的物质基础,可谓中华文明“饮食文化基因”。

Understanding the material foundation for the occurrence and development of Chinese civilization and Chinese National Community,the dietary genes in particular,is one of the important components to explore the histories of Chinese civilization and Chinese National Community and the key to answering the question"how did China be established"as well.In recent years,the accumulated isotopic data given the quick development of stable isotope bioarchaeology in China provide us the unprecedented opportunity to reveal human subsistence strategies through time.After collecting,combing and analyzing isotopic data of human bones during the forming periods of Chinese civilization and Chinese National Community,we found that millet agriculture is the material foundation for the occurrence and development of Chinese civilization and Chinese National Community and can be regarded as the dietary genes in Chinese civilization.