Intertooth patterns of hypoplasia expression: Implications for childhood health in the Classic Maya collapse

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 233-247

  Wright, Lori E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

enamel hypoplasia; Maya; stress; susceptibility; weaning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DENTITION; ENAMEL HYPOPLASIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; STRESS; WEANING;

AGE DETERMINATION BY TEETH; CHILD; DENTAL ENAMEL HYPOPLASIA; GUATEMALA; HEALTH STATUS; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; INDIANS, CENTRAL AMERICAN; PALEODONTOLOGY; STRESS;

EID: 0030997229     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199702)102:2<233::AID-AJPA6>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

References (82)

1. Adams REW (1971) The Ceramics of Altar de Sacrificios. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Papers, Vol. 63, No. 1. Cambridge: Harvard University.
2. Almroth SG (1978) Water requirements of breast-fed infants in a hot climate. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 31:1154-1155.
3. Anderson DL, Thompson GW, and Popovich F (1976) Age of attainment of mineralization stages of the permanent dentition. J. Forensic Sci. 21:191-200.
4. Benedict FG, and Steggerda M (1937) The food of the present-day Maya indians of Yucatan. In: Contributions to American Archaeology, Vol. 3, No. 18. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, pp. 155-188.
5. Blakey ML, and Armelagos GJ (1985) Deciduous enamel defects in prehistoric Americans from Dickson Mounds: Prenatal and postnatal stress. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 66:371-380.
6. Blakey ML, Leslie TE, and Reidy JP (1994) Frequency and chronological distribution of dental enamel hypoplasia in enslaved African Americans: A test of the weaning hypothesis. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 95:371-383.
7. Brewbaker JL (1979) Diseases of maize in the wet lowland tropics and the collapse of the Classic Maya civilization. Econ. Bot. 33:101-118.
8. Condon K, and Rose JC (1992) Intertooth and intratooth variability in the occurrence of developmental enamel defects. In AL Goodman and LL Capasso (eds.): Recent Contributions to the Study of Enamel Developmental Defects. Journal of Paleopathology, Monographic Publications, No. 2. Chieti, Italy: Edigrafital Teramo, pp. 61-77.
9. Cook DC (1981) Mortality, age structure and status in the interpretation of stress indicators in prehistoric skeletons: A dental example from the Lower Illinois Valley. In RW Chapman and KR Randsborg (eds.): The Archaeology of Death. Cambridge: University Press, pp. 133-144.
10. Cook DC, and Buikstra JE (1979) Health and differential survival in prehistoric populations: Prenatal dental defects. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 51:649-664.
11. Corruccini RS, Handler JS, and Jacobi KP (1985) Chronological distribution of enamel hypoplasias and weaning in a Caribbean slave population. Hum. Biol. 57:699-711.
12. Culbert TP (1988) The collapse of Classic Maya civilization. In N Yoffee and GL Cowgill (eds.): The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, pp. 69-101.
13. Culbert TP (ed.) (1991) Classic Maya Political History: Hieroglyphic and Archaeological Evidence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
14. Danforth ME (1989) A Comparison of Childhood Health Patterns in the Late Classic and Colonial Maya using Enamel Microdefects. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University.
15. Demarest AA (1992) Ideology in Ancient Maya cultural evolution: The dynamics of galactic polities. In AA Demarest and G Conrad (eds.): Ideology and PreColumbian Civilizations. School of American Research Seminar. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, pp. 135-157.
16. Demarest AA (1996) War, peace, and the collapse of a Native American civilization: Lessons for contemporary systems of conflict. In T Gregor (ed.): A Natural History of Peace. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, pp. 215-248.
17. Demarest AA, and Houston S (1989) Proyecto Arquelológico Regional Petexbatún. Informe Preliminar 1. Primera Temporada. Nashville: Vanderbilt University.
18. Demarest AA, and Houston SD (1990) Proyecto Arqueológico Regional Petexbatún. Informe Preliminar 2. Segunda Temporada. Nashville: Vanderbilt University.
19. Demarest AA, Inomata T, Escobedo H, and Palka J (1991) Proyecto Arqueológico Regional Petexbatún. Informe Preliminar 3. Tercera Temporada. Nashville: Vanderbilt University.
20. Demarest AA, Inomata T, and Escobedo H (1992) Proyecto Arqueológico Regional Petexbatún. Informe Preliminar 4. Cuarta Temporada. Nashville: Vanderbilt University.
21. Dow TE (1977) Breastfeeding and abstinence among the Yoruba. Stud. Fam. Plann. 8:208-214.
22. Dunning NP, and Beach T (1994) Soil erosion, slope management, and ancient terracing in the Maya Lowlands. Latin Amer. Antiq. 5:51-69.
23. Emery K (1991) Análisis preliminar de los restos óseos de fauna de la región de Petexbatún. In AA Demarest, T Inomata, H Escobedo, and J Palka (eds.): Proyecto Arqueologico Regional Petexbatún. Informe Preliminar 3. Tercera Temporada, 1991. Tomo 2. Nashville: Vanderbilt University, pp. 813-828.
24. Fanning EA, and Brown T (1971) Primary and permanent tooth development. Aust. Dent. J. (February): 41-43.
25. Fash WL (1994) Changing perspectives on Maya civilization. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 23:181-208.
26. Foias AE (1993) Resultados preliminares del análisis ceramico del Proyecto Petexbatún. Apuntes Arqueol. 3:37-54.
27. Freidel DA (1986) Terminal classic lowland Maya: Successes, failures, and aftermaths. In JA Sabloff and EW Andrews V (eds.): Late Lowland Maya Civilization: Classic to Postclassic. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pp. 409-430.
28. Goodman AH, and Armelagos GJ (1985a) The chronological distribution of enamel hypoplasia in human permanent incisor and canine teeth. Arch Oral Biol. 30:503-507.
29. Goodman AH, and Armelagos GJ (1985b) Factors affecting the distribution of enamel hypoplasias within the human permanent dentition. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 68:479-493.
30. Goodman AH, and Armelagos GJ (1988) Childhood stress and decreased longevity in a prehistoric population. Am. Anthropol. 90:936-944.
31. Goodman AH, and Rose JC (1990) Assessment of systemic physiological perturbations from dental enamel hypoplasias and associated histological structures. Yrbk. Phys. Anthropol. 33:59-110.
32. Goodman AH, Armelagos GJ, and Rose JC (1980) Enamel hypoplasias as indicators of stress in three prehistoric population from Illinois. Hum. Biol. 52:515-528.
33. Goodman AH, Allen LH, Hernandez GP, Amador A, Arriola LV, Chavez A, and Pelto GH (1987) Prevalence and age at development of enamel hypoplasias in Mexican children. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 72:7-19.
34. Goodman AH, Martinez C, and Chavez A (1991) Nutritional supplementation and the development of linear enamel hypoplasias in children from Tezonteopan, Mexico. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 53:773-781.
35. Hodell DA, Curtis JH, and Brenner M (1995) Possible role of climate in the collapse of Classic Maya civilization. Nature 375:391-394.
36. Hodges DC (1987) Health and agricultural intensification in the Prehistoric Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 73:323-332.
37. Hodges DC, and Wilkinson RG (1990) Effect of tooth size on the aging and chronological distribution of enamel hypoplastic defects. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 2:553-560.
38. Hutchinson DL, and Larsen CS (1988) Determination of stress episode duration from linear enamel hypoplasias: A case study from St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Hum. Biol. 60:93-110.
39. Johnston K (1994) The "Invisible" Maya: Late Classic Minimally-Platformed Residential Settlement at Itzán, Petén, Guatemala. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University.
40. Kleinman RE, and Walker WA (1979) The enteromammary immune system. An important new concept in breast milk host defense. Dig. Dis. Sci. 24:876-882.
41. Lanphear KM (1990) Frequency and distribution of enamel hypoplasias in an historic skeletal sample. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 81:35-43.
42. Lentz D (1994) Paleobotanical evidence for subsistence practices and other economic activities in the Petexbatun region during the Classic Period. Paper presented to the American Anthropological Association 93rd Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 1994.
43. MacKie E (1961) New light on the end of Classic Maya culture at Benque Viejo, British Honduras. Am. Antiq. 27:216-224.
44. Massler M, Schour I, and Poncher HG (1941) Developmental pattern of the child as reflected in the calcification pattern of teeth. Am. J. Dis. Child. 62:33-67.
45. Mata L, and Salas P (1984) Mucosal infections and malnutrition. In P.L. Ogra (ed.): Neonatal Infections. Nutritional and Immunologic Interactions. Orlando: Grune and Stratton. Inc., pp. 299-313.
46. Mathews P, and Willey GR (1991) Prehistoric polities of the Pasión region: Hieroglyphic texts and their archaeological settings. In TP Culbert (ed.): Classic Maya Political History: Hieroglyphic and Archaeological Evidence. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 30-71.
47. May RL, Goodman AH, and Meindl RS (1993) Response of bone and enamel formation to nutritional supplementation and morbidity among malnourished Guatemalan children. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 92:37-51.
48. McKee JK, and Lunz R (1990) Correlates of enamel hypoplasia with human dental reduction. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 2:459-465.
49. Miller ME (1993) On the eve of the collapse: Maya art of the eighth century. In JA Sabloff and JS Henderson (eds.): The Eighth Century A.D. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, pp. 355-414.
50. Moggi-Cecchi J, Pacciani E, and Pinto-Cisternas J (1994) Enamel hypoplasia and age at weaning in 19th century Florence, Italy. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 93:307-321.
51. Norr LC (1991) Nutritional Consequences of Prehistoric Subsistence Strategies in Lower Central America. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
52. Ogra PL, and Losonsky GA (1984) Defense factors in products of lactation. In PL Ogra (ed.): Neonatal Infections. Nutritional and Immunologic Interactions. Orlando: Grune and Stratton, Inc., pp. 67-87.
53. Osborn JW (1973) Variations in structure and development of enamel. Oral Sci. Rev. 3:3-83.
54. Pérez-Escamilla R (1993) Breast-feeding patterns in nine Latin American and Caribbean countries. Bull. Pan Am. Health Organ. 27:32-42.
55. Pohl M (1985) The privileges of Maya elites: Prehistoric vertebrate fauna from Seibal. In M Pohl (ed.): Prehistoric Lowland Maya Environment and Subsistence Economy. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Papers, Vol. 77. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 133-145.
56. Puleston DE (1979) An epistemological pathology and the collapse, or why the Maya kept the Short Count. In N Hammond and GR Willey (eds.), Maya Archaeology and Ethnohistory. Austin: The University of Texas Press, pp. 63-71.
57. Rathbun TA (1987) Health and disease at a South Carolina Plantation: 1840-1870. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 74:239-253.
58. Sabloff JA (1975) Excavations at Seibal. Department of Petén, Guatemala. Ceramics. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Memoirs, Vol. 13, No. 2. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University.
59. Sanders WT (1973) The cultural ecology of the Lowland Maya: A reevaluation. In TP Culbert (ed.): The Classic Maya Collapse. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pp. 325-366.
60. Santley SR, Killion TW, and Lycett MT (1986) On the Maya collapse. J. Anthropol. Res. 42:123-159.
61. Saul FP (1972) The Human Skeletal Remains of Altar de Sacrificios: An Osteobiographic Analysis. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Papers, Vol. 63, No. 2. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
62. Saul FP (1973) Disease in the Maya area: The pre-Columbian evidence. In TP Culbert (ed.): The Classic Maya Collapse. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pp. 301-324.
63. Shimkin DB (1973) Models for the downfall: Some ecological and culture-historical considerations. In TP Culbert (ed.): The Classic Maya Collapse. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pp. 269-300.
64. Skinner M, and Goodman AH (1992) Anthropological uses of developmental defects of enamel. In SR Saunders and MA Katzenberg (eds.): Skeletal Biology of Past Peoples: Research Methods. New York: Wiley-Liss, pp. 153-174.
65. Spinden HJ (1928) The Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Handbook Series, No. 3. New York: American Museum of Natural History.
66. Storey R (1992a) The children of Copan: Issues in paleopathology and paleodemography. Anc. Meso. 3:161-167.
67. Storey R (1992b) Patterns of susceptibility to dental defects in the deciduous dentition of a precolumbian skeletal population. In AL Goodman and LL Capasso (eds.): Recent Contributions to the Study of Enamel Developmental Defects. Journal of Paleopathology, Monographic Publications, 2. Chieti, Italy: Edigrafital Teramo, pp. 171-183.
68. Suckling G (1989) Developmental defects of enamel-historical and present-day perspectives of their pathogenesis. Adv. Dent. Res. 3:87-94.
69. Thompson JES (1970) Maya History and Religion. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
70. Tozzer AM (1941) Landa's Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Papers, Vol. 18. Cambridge: Harvard University.
71. Ubelaker DH (1978) Human Skeletal Remains: Excavation, Analysis, Interpretation. Washington, DC: Taraxacum.
72. Valdés JA, Foias A, Inomata T. Escobedo H. and Demarest AA (1993) Proyecto Arqueológico Regional Petexbatún. Informe Preliminar 5. Quinta Temporada.
73. Van Gerven DP, Beck R, and Hummert JR (1990) Patterns of enamel hypoplasia in two medieval populations from Nubia's Batn El Hajar. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 82:413-420.
74. Webb MC (1973) The Peten Maya decline viewed in the perspective of state formation. In TP Culbert (ed.): The Classic Maya Collapse. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pp. 367-404.
75. Whittington SL (1992) Enamel hypoplasia in the low status Maya population of prehispanic Copan, Honduras. In AL Goodman and LL Capasso (eds.): Recent Contributions to the Study of Enamel Developmental Defects. Journal of Paleopathology, Monographic Publications, 2. Chieti, Italy: Edigrafital Teramo, pp. 185-205.
76. Willey GR (1973) The Altar de Sacrificios Excavations: General Summary and Conclusions. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Papers, 64, No. 3. Cambridge: Harvard University.
77. Willey GR (1990) Excavations at Seibal. No. 4. General Summary and Conclusions. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Memoirs, Vol. 17. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
78. Willey GR, and Shimkin DB (1973) The Maya collapse: A summary view. In TP Culbert (ed.): The Classic Maya Collapse. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pp. 457-502.
79. Willey GR, and Smith AL (1969) The Ruins of Altar de Sacrificios, Department of Peten, Guatemala: An Introduction. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Papers, Vol. 62, No. 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.
80. Willey GR, Smith AL, Tourtellot G, and Graham I (1975) Excavations at Seibal: Introduction, the Site and its Setting. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Memoirs, Vol. 13, No. 1. Cambridge: Harvard University.
81. Wright LE (1994) The Sacrifice of the Earth? Diet, Health, and Inequality in the Pasión Maya Lowlands. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago.
82. Wright LE (1997) Ecology or society? Paleodiet and the collapse of the Pasión Maya Lowlands. In S Whittington and D Reed (eds.): Bones of the Maya: Skeletal Studies of an Ancient People. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.