《古罗马史与自然科学方法》这是一部从气候学、动物学、植物学、骨骼学等自然科学学科考察古罗马历史的论文集，斯坦福大学历史学教授瓦尔特·沙伊德尔汇集了处于领域前沿的历史学家、人类学家和遗传学家的七篇论文，其研究成果有助于重建古罗马世界的生活。他们讨论了气候变化及其对古罗马史的影响；以丰富的人类骨骼材料记录构建了一个生物档案库，其中保存了有关健康、营养、疾病、工作等重要信息；展示了如何将古代DNA用于追踪传染病的扩散，以及牲畜和农作物随人的传播。

　　【作者简介】

　　[奥]瓦尔特·沙伊德尔（WalterScheidel），生于奥地利，目前在斯坦福大学教授古代历史，主要研究领域是古代历史和经济史、前现代历史人口学，以及世界史比较和跨学科研究方法。

　　【译者简介】

　　祁长保，毕业于国际关系学院，曾从事医药贸易工作。译有《黑斯巴达克斯：海地国父杜桑·卢维杜尔传》《苍白的骑士：西班牙流感如何改变了世界》。

The History of Ancient Rome and the Method of Natural Science is a collection of essays examining the history of ancient Rome from the natural sciences of climatology, zoology, botany, and skeletal science. Walter Scheidel, a professor of history at Stanford University, brings together seven papers by leading historians, anthropologists, and geneticists whose findings help reconstruct life in the ancient Roman world. They discussed climate change and its impact on the history of ancient Rome; It constructs a biological archive with rich records of human skeletal materials, which preserves important information about health, nutrition, disease, work, etc. It shows how ancient DNA can be used to track the spread of infectious diseases and the spread of livestock and crops from person to person.

【 About the author 】

WalterScheidel is an Austrian-born professor of ancient history at Stanford University, whose research interests include ancient and economic history, pre-modern historical demography, and comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to world history.

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Qi Changbao, graduated from the Institute of International Relations, used to work in pharmaceutical trade. He is the author of Hesbadacus: The Biography of Toussaint L 'Ouverture, Founder of Haiti, and The Pale Knight: How the Spanish Flu Changed the World.