Tracing the locality of prisoners and workers at the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang: First Emperor of China (259-210 BC)

doi:10.1038/srep26731

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	Tracing the locality of prisoners and workers at the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang: First Emperor of China (259-210 BC)
	Ma, Ying 1; Fuller, Benjamin T.2; Sun, Weigang 3; Hu, Songmei 3; Chen, Liang 4; Hu, Yaowu 2,5; Richards, Michael P.1,6
	2016-06-02
发表期刊	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷号	6
文章类型	Article
摘要	The mausoleum complex of the First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang (259-210 BC), is one of the most famous and important archaeological sites in China, yet questions remain as to how it was constructed and by whom. Here we present isotopic results of individuals from the Liyi (n = 146) and Shanren sites (n = 14), both associated with the mausoleum complex. Those buried at Liyi represent the local workers/inhabitants of the Qin population, and the delta C-13 (-8.7 +/- 1.5%) and delta N-15 (10.3 +/- 0.7%) values indicate that they consumed predominately millet and/or domestic animals fed millet. In contrast, the Shanren individuals were prisoners forced to construct the mausoleum (found buried haphazardly in a mass grave and some in iron leg shackles), and their delta C-13 (-15.4 +/- 2.9%) and delta N-15 (8.0 +/- 0.6%) results indicate a more mixed C-3/C-4 diet, with possibly less domestic animals and more wild game protein consumed. This pattern of decreased millet consumption is also characteristic of archaeological sites from southern China, and possible evidence the Shanren prisoners originated from this region (possibly the ancient Chu state located in modern day Hubei Province and parts of Hunan and Anhui Provinces). Further, this finding is in agreement with historical sources and is supported by previous ancient DNA evidence that the mausoleum workers had diverse origins, with many genetically related to southern Chinese groups.
WOS标题词	Science & Technology
DOI	10.1038/srep26731
关键词[WOS]	STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSES ; COLLAGEN EXTRACTION ; BONE ; LIANGCHENGZHEN ; SHANDONG ; DIETARY ; WHEAT
收录类别	SCI ; SSCI
语种	英语
项目资助者	Max Planck Society ; CAS President's International Fellowship(2013Y1JA0004) ; Max Planck Society CAS President's International Fellowship(2013Y1JA0004)
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000376849200001
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7103
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
作者单位	1.Max Planck Inst Evolutionary Anthropol, Dept Human Evolut, 6 Deutcher Pl, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Shaanxi Prov Inst Culture Relics & Archaeol, Xian 710054, Shaanxi, Peoples R China 4.Northwest Univ, Inst Archaeol, Xian 710069, Shaanxi, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Palaeontol & Palaeoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 6.Simon Fraser Univ, Dept Archaeol, Burnaby, BC V5W 1S6, Canada
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ma, Ying,Fuller, Benjamin T.,Sun, Weigang,et al. Tracing the locality of prisoners and workers at the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang: First Emperor of China (259-210 BC)[J]. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,2016,6.
APA	Ma, Ying.,Fuller, Benjamin T..,Sun, Weigang.,Hu, Songmei.,Chen, Liang.,...&Richards, Michael P..(2016).Tracing the locality of prisoners and workers at the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang: First Emperor of China (259-210 BC).SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,6.
MLA	Ma, Ying,et al."Tracing the locality of prisoners and workers at the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang: First Emperor of China (259-210 BC)".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 6(2016).