Dental Reduction and the Transition to Agriculture in Europe

Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 451-474

  Pinhasi, Ron ^a   Meiklejohn, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crown dimensions, complex phenotypic traits shaped by genetic, ontogenetic and environmental factors; Dahlberg's population specific variability in tooth size and form, hypothesizing changes in human dentition; Dental reduction trends in European Late Pleistocene hunter gatherers and early Holocene farmers; Dental trends, quality control of chronology and accuracy of archaeological association of human remains; Diachronic dental crown size reduction recent hominines and modern human populations; Europe, dental reduction and transition to agriculture; Post hoc tests and ANOVA total set results by period; Regression analyses of tooth dimensions for Central European specimens; Sexual dimorphism, Kruskal Wallis tests testing differences, dimension, arcade, tooth position and period; Study of prehistoric dental trends considering occlusal wear

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876527337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470670170.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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