DENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT APPLICATION AND TECHNIQUES
DENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT APPLICATION AND TECHNIQUES

DENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT APPLICATION AND TECHNIQUES

Summary/Abstract: Dental anthropology, as a subfield of biological anthropology, is a study of dentitions of past and present populations. The aim of dental anthropology is to give answers to some significant questions in anthropology. Those questions are usually regarding diet, health, and biological relations of individuals and populations. To answer these as well as may other research questions, dental anthropologists study development, microstructures, eruption, number, size, morphology, modifications, wear, and tooth pathologies, using a range of micro- and macroscopic techniques. This text gives a brief review of techniques used in dental anthropology currently, and their application in anthropological and archaeological research.

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