A comparison of antemortem tooth loss in human hunter-gatherers and non-human catarrhines: Implications for the identification of behavioral evolution in the human fossil record

2013 ◽  
Vol 151 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassandra C. Gilmore
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Record ◽  
Tooth Loss ◽  
Behavioral Evolution ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Human Fossil ◽  
Antemortem Tooth Loss

scholarly journals Dental Health and Diet of Two Prehistoric Populations from Chile's Semiarid North

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Araya Rosado
Keyword(s):  
Tooth Loss ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Wild Plants ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Antemortem Tooth Loss ◽  
Infection Processes ◽  
Log Ratio ◽  
Two Populations

This investigation examines dental health and diet of two prehistoric populations from Chile's semiarid north. Trace element and dental paleopathological analyses  have been conducted on skeletal remains of hunter-gatherers of the Archaic period (n=99, ca. 1,800 BC) and agriculturalists of the Diaguita period (n=82, 1,000-1,500 AD). Archaeological and historical evidence indicates that the Diaguita diet primarily incorporated cultivated and wild plants, but also included pastoralism and marine resources. By contrast, the subsistence of Archaic peoples was primarily based on marine resources. Concentration values of the elements strontium and barium (mean log ratio values for Archaic = -0.7985, n=38; for Diaguita = -0.5475, n=53) support the archaeological evidence for subsistence mode, and thus for diet, of both populations. These concentrations fall within the ranges determined for various archaeological New World populations with similar subsistence and dietary patterns. Based on the differences in subsistence and diet, the variations in dental health between the two populations were investigated. The analysis to date has revealed that both populations suffered from infectious (antemortem tooth loss, abscesses, caries, alveolar recession), degenerative (calculus deposition), and developmental (enamel hypoplasia) dental pathologies. The differences in frequencies of some of the infection processes are statistically significant between the two populations (p,0.05), but overall do not seem to demonstrate, as many other studies have (Larsen, 1984; Schmucker, 1985; Murphy, 1993), as sharp decline in dental health from the hunter-gatherer population. 

scholarly journals “Small Size” in the Philippine Human Fossil Record: Is it Meaningful for a Better Understanding of the Evolutionary History of the Negritos?

Human Biology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 85 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 45-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florent Détroit ◽  
Julien Corny ◽  
Eusebio Z. Dizon ◽  
Armand S. Mijares
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Record ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Human Fossil ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Comparative perspective on antemortem tooth loss in Neandertals

2016 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 80-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassandra C. Gilmore ◽  
Timothy D. Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Tooth Loss ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Antemortem Tooth Loss

The Human Fossil Record of Bulgaria and the Formulation of Biogeographic Hypotheses

2016 ◽  
pp. 69-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Strait ◽  
Caley M. Orr ◽  
Jamie Hodgkins ◽  
Nikolai Spassov ◽  
Maria Gurova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Record ◽  
Human Fossil
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