Occlusal molar microwear and the diets of the Ipiutak and Tigara populations (Point Hope) with comparisons to the Aleut and Arikara

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2517-2522

  El Zaatari, Sireen ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aleut; Arikara; Diet; Microwear; Point Hope

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DIET; ETHNIC GROUP; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; SKELETAL REMAINS; TOOTH; WEAR;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; POINT HOPE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 47049087274     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Balikci A. The Netsilik Eskimo (1970), Natural History Press, Prospect Heights
2. Blakeslee D.J. The archaeological context of human skeletons in the northern and central Plains. In: Owsley D.W., and Jantz R.L. (Eds). Skeletal Biology in the Great Plain: Migration, Warfare, Health and Subsistence (1994), Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC 9-32
3. Conover W.J., and Iman R.L. Rank transformations as a bridge between parametric and nonparametric statistics. The American Statistician 35 (1981) 124-129
4. Cook R.J., and Farewell V.T. Multiplicity considerations in the design and analysis of clinical trials. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 159 (1996) 93-110
5. Costa R.L.J. Age, sex, and antemortem loss of teeth in Pre-historic Eskimo samples from Point Hope and Kodiak Island, Alaska. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 53 (1980) 579-587
6. Costa R.L.J. Incidence of caries and abscesses in archaeological Eskimo skeletal samples from Point Hope and Kodiak Island, Alaska. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 52 (1980) 501-514
7. Costa R.L.J. Periodontal disease in the prehistoric Ipiutak and Tigara skeletal remains from Point Hope, Alaska. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 59 (1982) 97-110
8. Daegling D.V., and Grine F.E. Terrestrial foraging and Dental Microwear in Papio ursinus. Primates 40 (1999) 559-572
9. Draper H.H. The aboriginal Eskimo diet. American Anthropologist 79 (1977) 309-316
10. El Zaatari S., Grine F.E., Teaford M.F., and Smith H.F. Molar microwear and dietary reconstructions of fossil Cercopithecoidea from the Plio-Pleistocene deposits of South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 49 (2005) 180-205
11. Gal R. Appendix I: an annotated roster of archaeological radiocarbon dates from Alaska, north of 68 latitude. Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 20 (1982) 159-180
12. Giddings J.L. Ancient Men of the Arctic (1967), Secher and Warburg, London
13. Grine F.E. Dental evidence for dietary differences in Australopithecus and Paranthropus: a quantitative analysis of permanent molar microwear. Journal of Human Evolution 15 (1986) 783-822
14. Grine F.E. Quantitative analysis of occlusal microwear in Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Scanning Microscopy 1 (1987) 647-656
15. Grine F.E., and Kay R.F. Early hominid diets from quantitative image analysis of dental microwear. Nature 333 (1988) 765-768
16. Grine F.E., Ungar P.S., Teaford M.F., and El Zaatari S. Molar microwear in Praeanthropus afarensis: evidence for dietary stasis through time and under diverse paleoecological conditions. Journal of Human Evolution 51 (2006) 297-319
17. Hrdlicka A. The Aleutian and Commander Islands and their Inhabitants (1945), Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia
18. Hurt W.R. Seasonal economic and settlement patterns of the Arikara. Plains Anthropologist 14 (1969) 32-37
19. Jantz R.L. Microevolutionary change in Arikara crania: multivariate analysis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 38 (1973) 15-26
20. Larsen H., and Rainey F.G. Ipiutak and the Arctic whale hunting culture. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History (1948), American Museum of Natural History, New York
21. Laughlin W.S. Eskimos and Aleuts: their origins and evolution. Science 142 (1963) 633-645
22. Lester C.W., and Shapiro H.L. Vertebral arch defects in the lumbar vertebrae of pre-historic American Eskimos. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 28 (1968) 43-48
23. Manson O.K. The contest between the Ipiutak, Old Bering Sea, and Birnirk Polities and the origin of whaling during the First Millennium A.D. along Bering Strait. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 17 (1998) 240-325
24. Meyer R.W. The Village Indians of the Upper Missouri (1977), University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE
25. Neff N.A., and Marcus L.F. A Survey of Multivariate Methods for Systematics (1980), Neff and Marcus, New York
26. Organ J.M., Teaford M.F., and Larsen C.S. Dietary inferences from dental occlusal microwear at Mission San Luis de Apalachee. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 128 (2005) 801-811
27. de Poncins G. Kabloona (1941), Reynal, New York
28. Puech P.-F., Prone A., and Albertini H. Reproduction expérimental des processus d'altération de la surface dentaire par friction non abrasive et non adhésive: application à l'étude de alimentation de l'homme fossile. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série II 293 (1981) 729-734
29. Rainey F.G. The Ipiutak culture at Point Hope, Alaska. American Anthropologist 43 (1941) 364-375
30. Rainey F.G. The Ipiutak culture: excavations at Point Hope, Alaska. Current Topics in Anthropology, Module 8 (1971), Addison-Wesley Modular Publications, Boston 1-32
31. Rainey F.G., and Ralph E.K. Radiocarbon dating in the Arctic. American Antiquity 24 (1959) 365
32. Ralph E.K., and Ackerman R. University of Pennsylvania radiocarbon dates IV. Radiocarbon 3 (1961) 4
33. Ryan A.S. Anterior dental microwear and its relationship to diet and feeding behavior in three African primates (Pan troglodytes troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, and Papio hamadryas). Primates 22 (1981) 533-550
34. Ryan A.S., and Johanson D.C. Anterior dental microwear in Australopithecus afarensis. Journal of Human Evolution 18 (1989) 235-268
35. Sokal R.R., and Rohlf F.J. Biometry (1995), W.H. Freeman and Company, New York
36. Tauber H. Copenhagen radiocarbon dates VI. Radiocarbon 6 (1964) 215-225
37. Taylor M.E., and Hannam A.G. Tooth microwear and diet in the African Viverridae. Canadian Journal of Zoology 65 (1987) 1696-1702
38. Teaford M.F. Molar microwear and diet in the genus Cebus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 66 (1985) 363-370
39. Teaford M.F. Dental microwear and diet in two species of Colobus. In: Else J., and Lee P. (Eds). Proceedings of the Tenth Annual International Primatological Conference. vol. 2: Primate Ecology and Conservation (1986), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 63-66
40. Teaford M.F. Dental microwear and diet in extant and extinct Theropithecus: preliminary analyses. In: Jablonski N.G. (Ed). Theropithecus: the Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus (1993), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 331-349
41. Teaford M.F., and Glander K.E. Dental microwear in live, wild-trapped Alouatta palliata from Costa Rica. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 85 (1991) 313-319
42. Teaford M.F., Larsen C.S., Pastor R., and Noble V.E. Pits and scratches: microscopic evidence of tooth use and masticatory behavior in La Florida. In: Larsen C.S. (Ed). Bioarchaeology of Spanish Florida: the Impact of Colonialism (2001), University Press of Florida, Gainesville 82-112
43. Teaford M.F., and Robinson J.G. Seasonal or ecological zone differences in diet and molar microwear in Cebus nigrivittatus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 80 (1989) 391-401
44. Teaford M.F., and Runestad J.A. Dental microwear and diet in Venezuelan primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 88 (1992) 347-364
45. Teaford M.F., and Walker A.C. Quantitative differences in dental microwear between primate species with different diets and a comment on the presumed diet of Sivapithecus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 64 (1984) 191-200
46. Tuross N., and Fogel M.L. Stable isotope analysis and subsistence patterns at the Sully Site. In: Owsley D.W., and Jantz R.L. (Eds). Skeletal Biology in the Great Plain: Migration, Warfare, Health and Subsistence (1994), Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC 283-289
47. Ungar P.S. Incisor microwear of Sumatran anthropoid primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 94 (1994) 339-363
48. Ungar P.S. A semiautomated image analysis procedure for the quantification of dental microwear II. Scanning 17 (1995) 57-59
49. Ungar P.S. Dental microwear of European Miocene catarrhines: evidence for diets and tooth use. Journal of Human Evolution 31 (1996) 355-366
50. Ungar P.S., and Spencer M.A. Incisor microwear, diet, and tooth use in three Amerindian populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 109 (1999) 387-396
51. Walker P.L. Wear striations on the incisors of cercopithecid monkeys as an index of diet and habitat preference. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 45 (1976) 299-308
52. Walker P.L., Teaford M.F., and Ungar P.S. Enamel microwear differences between species of Proconsul from the Early Miocene of Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 18 Suppl. (1994) 202-203
53. Waugh L. A study of the nutrition and teeth of the Eskimo of North Bering Sea and Arctic Alaska. Journal of Dental Research 10 (1930) 387-393
54. Wedel W. Archaeological Materials from the Vicinity of Mobridge, South Dakota. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin no. 154 (1955), Smithsonian Institute pp. 85-167