Fertility and agriculture accentuate sex differences in dental caries rates

Current Anthropology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 901-914

  Lukacs, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249093735     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/592111     Document Type: Article

References (114)

1. Alvarez-Arenal, A., J. A. Alvarez-Riesgo, J. M. P. Lopez, J. P. Fernandez Vazquez, and M. A. Villa Vigil. 1996. DMFT and treatment needs in adult population of Oviedo, Spain. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 24:17-20.
2. Antunes, J. L., S. R. Junqueira, P. Frazão, C. M. Bispo, T. Pegoretti, and P. C. Narvai. 2003. City-level gender differentials in the prevalence of dental caries and restorative dental treatment. Health and Place 9:231-39.
3. Armelagos, George J., Alan H. Goodman, and K. H. Jacobs. 1991. The origins of agriculture: Population growth during a period of declining health. Population and Environment 13:9-22.
4. Bailey, Shara E., and Jean-Jacques Hublin, eds. 2007. Dental perspectives on human evolution: State-of-the-art research in dental paleoanthropology. Dordrecht: Springer.
5. Barker, Graeme. 2006. The agricultural revolution in prehistory: Why did foragers become farmers? Oxford: Oxford University Press.
6. Bellwood, Peter S. 2005. The first farmers: The origins of agricultural societies. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
7. Bentley, Gillian R. 1996. How did prehistoric women bear "man the hunter"? Reconstructing fertility from the archaeological record. In Gender and archaeology, ed. Rita P. Wright, 23-51. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
8. Bentley, Gillian R., T. Goldberg, and G. Jasienska. 1993. The fertility of agricultural and nonagricultural traditional societies. Population Studies: A Journal of Demography 47:269-81.
9. Bentley, Gillian R., R. R. Paine, and Jesper L. Boldsen. 2001. Fertility changes with the prehistoric transition to agriculture: Perspectives from reproductive ecology and paleodemography. In Reproductive ecology and human evolution, ed. Peter T. Ellison, 203-31. New York: Aldine.
10. Billing, J., and Paul W. Sherman. 1998. Antimicrobial functions for spices: Why some like it hot. Quarterly Review of Biology 73:3-49.
11. Boaz, Noel T. 2002. Evolving health: The origins of illness and how the modern world is making us sick. New York: Wiley.
12. Bocquet-Appel, J.-P. 2002. The paleoanthropological traces of the Neolithic demographic transition. Current Anthropology 43:638-50.
13. Bocquet-Appel, J.-P., and S. Naji. 2006. Testing the hypothesis of a worldwide Neolithic demographic transition. Current Anthropology 47:341-65.
14. Boldsen, Jesper L. 1997. Estimating patterns of disease and mortality in a medieval Danish village. In Integrating archaeological demography: Multidisciplinary approaches to prehistoric population, ed. Richard R. Paine, 229-41. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University.
15. Buikstra, Jane E., Lyle W. Koenigsberg, and Julie Bullington. 1986. Fertility and the development of agriculture in the prehistoric Midwest. American Antiquity 51:528-46.
16. Campbell, K. L., and J. W. Wood. 1988. Fertility in traditional societies: Social and biological determinants. In Natural human fertility, ed. P. Diggory, S. Teper, and M. Potts, 39-69. London: Macmillan.
17. Cheyney, Melissa. 2007. Evolutionary perspectives on pregnancy and its impact on dental health in women. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 44(suppl.):87.
18. Childe, V Gordon. 1951. Social evolution. London: Watts.
19. Christensen, K., D. Gaist, B. Jeune, and J. W. Vaupel. 1998. A tooth per child? Lancet 352:204.
20. Cohen, Mark N. 1977. The food crisis in prehistory: Overpopulation and the origins of agriculture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
21. _. 1989. Health and the rise of civilization. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
22. _. 1997. Does paleopathology measure community health? A rebuttal of "the osteological paradox" and its implication for world history. In Integrating archaeological demography: Multidisciplinary approaches to prehistoric population, ed. Richard R. Paine, 242-60. Center for Archaeological Investigation Occasional Paper 24. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University.
23. Cohen, Mark N., and George J. Armelagos. 1984. Paleopathology at the origins of agriculture. Orlando: Academic Press.
24. Cohen, Mark N., and Gillian M. M. Crane-Kramer. 2007. Ancient health: Skeletal indicators of agricultural and economic intensification. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
25. Cook, Della C., and Jane E. Buikstra. 1979. Health and differential survival in prehistoric populations: Perinatal dental defects. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 51:649-64.
26. Cucina, Andrea, and V Tiesler. 2003. Dental caries and antemortem tooth loss in the northern Peten area, Mexico: A biocultural perspective on status differences among the classic Maya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 122:1-10.
27. Deeley, K., A. Letra, E. K. Rose, C. A. Brandon, J. M. Resick, M. L. Marazita, and A. R. Vieira. 2008. Possible association of Amelogenin to high caries experience in a GuatemalanMayan population. Caries Research 42:8-13.
28. Dodds, M. W. J., D. Johnson, and C.-K. Yeh. 2005. Health benefits of saliva: A review. Journal of Dentistry 33:223-33.
29. Doughan, B., K. Kassak, and D. M. Bourgeois. 2000. Oral health status and treatment needs of 35-44 year old adults in Lebanon. International Dental Journal 50:395-99.
30. Dowd, Frank J. 1999. Saliva and dental caries. Dental Clinics of North America 43:579-87.
31. Dudley, R. 2000. Evolutionary origins of human alcoholism in primate frugivory. Quarterly Review of Biology 75:3-15.
32. Ellison, Peter T. 1990. Human ovarian function and reproductive ecology. American Anthropologist 92:952-93.
33. _. 2001. Reproductive ecology and human evolution. New York: Aldine.
34. Ellison, Peter T., C. Panter-Brick, S. F. Lipson, and M. T. O'Rourke. 1993. The ecological context of ovarian function. Human Reproduction 8:2248-58.
35. Eshed, V., A. Gopher, and I. Hershkovitz. 2006. Tooth wear and dental pathology at the advent of agriculture: New evidence from the Levant. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 130:145-59.
36. Featherstone, John D. B. 1987. The mechanism of dental decay. Nutrition Today 22:10-16.
37. _. 2000. The science and practice of caries prevention. Journal of the American Dental Association 131:887-99.
38. Fédération Dentaire Internationale. 1988. Technical report no. 31: Review of methods of identification of high caries risk groups and individuals. International Dental Journal 38:177-89.
39. Fessler, D. M. T. 2002. Reproductive immunosuppression and diet: An evolutionary perspective on pregnancy sickness and meat consumption. Current Anthropology 43:19-61.
40. Flaxman, S., and P. Sherman. 2000. Morning sickness: A mechanism for protecting mother and embryo. Quarterly Review of Biology 75:113-48.
41. Goodman, Alan H. 1993. On the interpretation of health from skeletal remains. Current Anthropology 34:281-88.
42. Goodman, Alan H., and George J. Armelagos. 1988. Childhood stress and decreased longevity in a prehistoric population. American Anthropologist 90:936-44.
43. Handwerker, W. P. 1983. The first demographic transition: An analysis of subsistence choices and reproductive consequences. American Anthropologist 85:5-27.
44. Haugejorden, O. 1996. Using the DMF gender difference to assess the "major" role of fluoride toothpastes in the caries decline in industrialized countries: A meta-analysis. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 24:369-75.
45. Hayden, Brian. 1990. Nimrods, pescators, pluckers, and planters: The emergence of food production. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 9:31-69.
46. _. 1995. A new overview of domestication. In Last hunters-first farmers: New perspectives in the prehistoric transition to agriculture, ed. T. D. Price and A. B. Gebauer, 273-99. Santa Fe: School of American Research.
47. Hescot, P., D. Bourgeois, and J. Doury. 1997. Oral health in 35-44 year old adults in France. International Dental Journal 47:94-99.
48. Hewlett, Barry S. 1991. Demography and childcare in preindustrial societies. Journal of Anthropological Research 47:1-39.
49. Hillson, Simon. 2000. Dental pathology. In Biological anthropology of the human skeleton, ed. M. A. Katzenberg and S. R. Saunders, 249-86. New York: Wiley-Liss.
50. _. 2001. Recording dental caries in archaeological human remains. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 11:249-89.
51. Huss-Ashmore, Rebecca, Alan H. Goodman, and George J. Armelagos. 1982. Nutritional inference from paleopathology. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 5:436-74.
52. Kelley, Marc A., Dianne R. Levesque, and Eric Weidl. 1991. Contrasting patterns of dental disease in five early northern Chilean groups. In Advances in dental anthropology, ed. M. A. Kelley and C. S. Larsen, 203-13. New York: Wiley-Liss.
53. Kennett, Douglas J., and Bruce Winterhalder. 2006. Behavioral ecology and the transition to agriculture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
54. Kirchengast, S., and C. Neubert. 2004. Socioecological aspects of reproduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Collegium Anthropologicum 28(suppl.):175-82.
55. Klatsky, M., and R. L. Fischer. 1953. The human masticatory apparatus: An introduction to dental anthropology. Brooklyn: Dental Items of Interest.
56. Konigsberg, Lyle W., Jane E. Buikstra, and Julie Bullington. 1989. Paleodemographic correlates of fertility: A reply to Corruccini, Brandon, and Handler and to Holland. American Antiquity 54:626-36.
57. Kramer, K. L., and J. L. Boone. 2002. Why intensive agriculturalists have high fertility: A household energy budget approach. Current Anthropology 43:511-17.
58. Krogman, Wilton M. 1951. The scars of human evolution. Scientific American 185:54-57.
59. Krustrup, U., and P. E. Petersen. 2007. Dental caries prevalence among adults in Denmark: The impact of sociodemographic factors and use of oral health services. Community Dental Health 24:225-32.
60. Laine, M., J. Tenovuo, O. P. Lehtonen, A. Ojanotko-Harri, P. Vilja, and P. Tuohimaa. 1988. Pregnancy-related changes in human whole saliva. Archives of Oral Biology 33:913-17.
61. Larsen, Clark S. 1983. Behavioral implications of temporal change in cariogenesis. Journal of Archaeological Science 10:1-8.
62. _. 1995. Biological changes in human populations with agriculture. Annual Review of Anthropology 24:185-213.
63. _. 1997. Bioarchaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
64. _. 1998. Gender, health and activity in foragers and farmers in the American southeast: Implications for social organization in the Georgia Bight. In Sex and gender in paleopathological perspective, ed. Anne L. Grauer and Patty Stuart-Macadam, 165-87. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
65. Larsen, Clark S., R. Shavit, and Mark C. Griffin. 1991. Dental caries evidence for dietary change: An archaeological context. In Advances in dental anthropology, ed. Marc A. Kelley and Clark S. Larsen, 179-202. New York: Wiley-Liss.
66. Lin, Y.-T., and K.-C. Chu. 1997. A survey on dental caries in schoolchildren on Lanyu Island. Chang Gung Medical Journal 20:280-85.
67. Lukacs, John R. 1989. Dental paleopathology: Methods for reconstructing dietary patterns. In Reconstruction of life from the skeleton, ed. M. Yasar Iscan and Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, 261-86. New York: Liss.
68. _. 1996. Sex differences in dental caries rates with the origin of agriculture in South Asia. Current Anthropology 37:147-53.
69. Lukacs, John R., and Leah Largaespada. 2006. Explaining sex differences in dental caries rates: Saliva, hormones and "life history" etiologies. American Journal of Human Biology 18:540-55.
70. Lukacs, John R., and Linda M. Thompson. 2007. Dental caries prevalence by sex in prehistory: Magnitude and meaning. In Technique and application in dental anthropology, ed. Joel D. Irish and Greg C. Nelson, 136-77. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
71. Lynch, D. F., C. F. Kettering, and W. J. Gies. 1939. Dental caries: Findings and conclusions of its causes and control. New York: Lancaster.
72. Mandel, Irwin D. 1979. Dental caries. American Scientist 67:680-88.
73. Mansbridge, J. N. 1959. Sex differences in the prevalence of dental caries. British Dental Journal 106:303-8.
74. Matthesen, M., V Baelum, L. Aarslev, and O. Fejerskov. 1990. Dental health of children and adults in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, in 1986. Community Dental Health 7:123-33.
75. McCaa, R. 2002. Paleodemography of the Americas: From ancient times to colonialism and beyond. In The backbone of history: Health and nutrition in the Western Hemisphere, ed. R. H. Steckel and J. C. Rose, 94-124. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
76. Morgan, Elaine. 1994. The scars of evolution. New York: Oxford University Press.
77. Muhler, J. D., and W. G. Shafer. 1954. Experimental dental caries. III. Journal of Dental Research 33:842-48.
78. National Research Council and Committee on Dental Health. 1952. A survey of the literature of dental caries. National Research Council Publication 225. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.
79. Nesse, Randolph M., and George C. Williams. 1995. Why we get sick: The new science of Darwinian medicine. New York: Times Books/Random House.
80. Oxenham, Marc, and Nancy Tayles. 2006. Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
81. Paine, Richard R., and Jesper L. Boldsen. 2002. Linking ageat-death distributions and ancient population dynamics: A case study. In Paleodemography: Age distributions from skeletal samples, ed. Robert D. Hoppa and James W. Vaupel, 19-80. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
82. Pennington, R. 2001. Hunter-gatherer demography. In Hunter-gatherers: An interdisciplinary perspective, ed. Catherine Panter-Brick, Robert H. Layton, and Peter RowleyConwy, 170-204. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
83. Petersen, P. E., and M. Kaka. 1999. Oral health status of children and adults in the Republic of Niger, Africa. International Dental Journal 49:159-64.
84. Petersen, P. E., and N. Razanamihaja. 1996. Oral health status of children and adults in Madagascar. International Dental Journal 46:41-47.
85. Powell, Mary Lucas. 1985. The analysis of dental wear and caries for dietary reconstruction. In The analysis of prehistoric diets, ed. Robert I. Gilbert Jr. and James H. Mielke, 307-38. Orlando: Academic Press.
86. _. 1988. Status and health in prehistory: A case study of the Moundville chiefdom. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
87. Rindos, David. 1984. The origins of agriculture: An evolutionary perspective. New York: Academic Press.
88. Roberts, Charlotte, and Keith Manchester. 2005. The archaeology of disease. 3d ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
89. Roth, Eric Abella. 1985. A note on the demographic concomitants of sedentism. American Anthropologist 87:380-82.
90. _. 2004. Culture, biology and anthropological demography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
91. Ruff, Christopher B. 2006. Gracilization of the modern human skeleton. American Scientist 94:508-14.
92. Russell, Stefanie L., Jeanette R. Ickovics, and Robert A. Yaffee. 2008. Exploring potential pathways between parity and tooth loss among American women. American Journal of Public Health 98:1263-70.
93. Salvolini, E., R. Di Giorgio, A. Curatola, L. Mazzanti, and G. Fratto. 1998. Biochemical modifications of human whole saliva induced by pregnancy. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 105:656-60.
94. Saravanan, S., K. P. Anuradha, and D. J. Bhaskar. 2003. Prevalence of dental caries and treatment needs among school going children of Pondicherry, India. Journal of the Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry 21:1-12.
95. Seibert, W., C. Farmer-Dixon, T. E. Bolden, and J. H. Steward. 2004. Assessing dental caries prevalence in African-American youth and adults. Journal of the Tennessee Dental Association 84:24-27.
96. Sherman, Paul W., and G. A. Hash. 2001. Why vegetable recipes are not very spicy. Evolution and Human Behavior 22:147-63.
97. Skudutyte, R., J. Aleksejuniene, and H. M. Eriksen. 2000. Dental caries in adult Lithuanians. Acta Odontologica Scandinavica 58:143-47.
98. Steckel, Richard H., and Jerome C. Rose. 2002. Backbone of history: Health and nutrition in the Western Hemisphere. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
99. Stewart, T. D. 1931. Dental caries in Peruvian skulls. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 15:315-25.
100. Streckfus, C. F., U. Baur, L. J. Brown, C. Bacal, J. Metter, and T. Nick. 1998. Effects of estrogen status and aging on salivary flow rates in healthy Caucasian women. Gerontology 44:32-39.
101. Tabak, Lawrence A. 2006. In defense of the oral cavity: The protective role of the salivary secretions. Pediatric Dentistry 28:110-17.
102. Tayles, N., Kate Domett, and K. Nelsen. 2000. Agriculture and dental caries? The case of rice in prehistoric Southeast Asia. World Archaeology 32:68-83.
103. Temple, D. H., and Clark S. Larsen. 2007. Dental caries prevalence as evidence for agriculture and subsistence variation during the Yayoi Period in prehistoric Japan: Biocultural interpretations of an economy in transition. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 134:501-12.
104. Turner, Christy G., II. 1979. Dental anthropological indications of agriculture among the Jomon people of central Japan. X. Peopling of the Pacific. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 51:619-36.
105. Vallianatos, Helen. 2007. Food cravings and aversions in pregnancy: An evolutionary perspective on gender differences in dental health. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 44(suppl.):235-36.
106. Varenne, B., P. E. Petersen, and S. Ouattara. 2004. Oral health status of children and adults in urban and rural areas of Burkina Faso, Africa. International Dental Journal 54:83-89.
107. Vieira, A. R., M. L. Marazita, and T. Goldstein-McHenry. 2008. Genome-wide scan finds suggestive caries loci. Journal of Dental Research 87:915-18.
108. Walker, Phillip L. 1986. Sex differences in diet and dental health of prehistoric and modern hunters and gatherers. In Proceedings of the VI Meeting of the European Paleopathology Association, ed. F. Gomez-Bellar and J. A. Sanchez, 249-60. Madrid: Universidad Compultense de Madrid.
109. Walker, Phillip L., and Barry Hewlett. 1990. Dental health, diet and social status among central African foragers and farmers. American Anthropologist 92:383-98.
110. Walker, Phillip L., Lawrence Sugiyama, and R. Chacon. 1998. Diet, dental health, and culture change among recently contacted South American Indian hunter-horticulturalists. In Dental development, morphology, and pathology: A tribute to Albert A. Dahlberg, ed. John R. Lukacs, 355-86. Vol. 54. Eugene: University of Oregon Anthropology Papers.
111. Wang, H. Y., P. E. Petersen, J. Y. Bian, and B. X. Zhang. 2002. The second national survey of oral health status of children and adults in China. International Dental Journal 52:283-90.
112. Williams, George C., and Randolph M. Nesse. 1991. The dawn of Darwinian medicine. Quarterly Review of Biology 66:1-23.
113. Winikoff, B., and M. A. Castle. 1987. The maternal depletion syndrome: Clinical diagnosis or eco-demographic condition? Technical background paper prepared for the International Conference on Better Health for Women and Children through Family Planning, Nairobi, Kenya.
114. Wood, James W., George R. Milner, Henry C. Harpending, and Kenneth M. Weiss. 1992. The osteological paradox: Problems inferring health from skeletal samples. Current Anthropology 33:343-70.