Oral and physiological paleohealth in cold adapted peoples: Northeast Asia, Hokkaido

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-74

  Oxenham, Marc F ^a   Matsumura, Hirofumi ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alaska; Bioarchaeology; Health; Jomon; Okhotsk

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM;

ARTICLE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CRIBRA ORBITALIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DENTAL CARIES; ENAMEL HYPOPLASIA; ESKIMO; ETHNIC GROUP; GEOGRAPHY; HOKKAIDO ISLAND; HUMAN; IPIUTAK; JAPAN; JOMON ISLAND; KODIAK ISLAND; MOUTH EXAMINATION; OKHOTSK ISLAND; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; TIGARA; TOOTH SOCKET;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALASKA; COLD; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL ENAMEL HYPOPLASIA; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; ORAL HEALTH; ORBITAL DISEASES; STOMATOGNATHIC DISEASES; TOOTH LOSS;

EID: 37349119761     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20709     Document Type: Article

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