Etruscans and the History of Dentistry - The Golden Smile Through the Ages

Informationen zum Autor Marshall Joseph Becker is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at West Chester University, USA, and is a Distinguished Member of the American Anthropological Association. Jean MacIntosh Turfa is a Consulting Scholar in the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, USA, and a Foreign Member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi, Italy. Klappentext The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan culture, and their place within the framework of a general history of dentistry, with special emphasis on appliances, from Bronze Age Mesopotamia and Egypt to modern Europe and the Americas. Included are many of the ancient literary sources that refer to dentistry - or the lack thereof - in Greece and Rome, as well as the archaeological evidence of ancient dental health. The book challenges many past works in exposing modern scholars' fallacies about ancient dentistry, while presenting the incontrovertible evidence of the Etruscans' seemingly modern attitudes to cosmetic dentistry. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Background: the main ancient cultures associated with dental appliances listed in alphabetic order Introduction Chapter 1. Dentistry in medical history: classical roots Chapter 2. Evidence from the ancient Near East: correcting misconceptions Chapter 3. The dental prosthesis: a lost Etruscan invention Chapter 4. Dental appliances and dentistry after the Etruscans, to the present day Chapter 5. Catalogue of Etruscan and Roman-era dental appliances Chapter 6. Concluding remarks Appendices: Appendix I – Uncertain examples of Etruscan dental appliances Appendix II – Modern Copies of Etruscan dental appliances Appendix III – Spurious examples of dental implants or appliances Appendix IV – Amulets and votives resembling or incorporating teeth Appendix V – Pliny on cures for oral pathologies Appendix VI – Evidence for dental extractions in ancient Rome: a summary of the analysis of teeth excavated at the Temple of Castor and Pollux in the Roman forum Appendix VII – Report on analysis of gold bands in Liverpool appliances (nos. 13 and 14) Bibliography Index ...

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• Authors: Marshall J Becker, Marshall J. Becker, Marshall J. Turfa Becker, Marshall Joseph Becker, Becker Marshall J., Jean MacIntosh Turfa, Jean Macintosh Becker Turfa
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2017
• EAN: 9781138677913
• ISBN: 978-1-138-67791-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies; Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Dentistry; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, MEDICAL / Dentistry / General, dentistry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Dentistry and related oral medicines