Dental Anthropology - Fundamentals, Limits and Prospects

The study of teeth is an important key to the biology and culture of past and living populations. Due to their extreme hardness, their numerous and highly heritable characteristics and their susceptibility to environmental responses teeth allow inferences of human evolution, adaptation, living conditions, environments, group affinity, kinship and the life and death of single persons. This has been gradually discovered during the last thirty years, and it lead to the formation of the new field of dental anthropology. It is rooted in biology and has strong ties to dentistry, forensics and the humanities. This book gives a comprehensive view of this new field of dental anthropology. It provides a basic introduction as well as a reference for the specialist in anthropology, forensics, ecology, paleontology and dentistry. Most aspects are new, particularly the syntheses. The basic experience and literature is of a broad international and multilingual origin.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Summary:
Dental Anthropology - An Introduction.- Teeth in History.- Dental Morphology, Structure, and Evolution.- Dental Pathology and Epidemiology.- Nutrition and Human Behavior.- Age and Sex Estimation.- Geographical and Familial Tooth Variation.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Kurt W. Alt ist geschäftsführender Leiter des Instituts für Anthropologie der Universität Mainz.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Friedrich W. Rösing, Maria Teschler-Nicola
• Mitarbeit: Kurt W. von Alt (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Springer, Wien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9783211829745
• ISBN: 978-3-211-82974-5
• Seiten: 564
• Gewicht: 1208 g
• Illustration: w. figs.
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Zahnheilkunde; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Sonstiges