miércoles, 8 de septiembre de 2010

Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology


Libro editado por Joel D. Irish y Greg C. Nelson (2008)

Contenido:

Section I: Context

1 Introduction
Joel D. Irish and Greg C. Nelson

2 History of dental anthropology
G. Richard Scott and Christy G. Turner

3 Statistical applications in dental anthropology
Edward F. Harris


Section II: Applications in assessing population health Using perikymata to estimate the duration of growth disruptions in fossil hominin teeth: issues of methodology and interpretation
Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg

5 Micro spatial distributions of lead and zinc in human deciduous tooth enamel
Louise T. Humphrey, Teresa E. Jeffries, and M. Christopher Dean

6 The current state of dental decay
Simon Hillson

7 Dental caries prevalence by sex in prehistory: magnitude and meaning
John R. Lukacs and Linda M. Thompson

8 Dental pathology prevalence and pervasiveness at Tepe Hissar: statistical utility for investigating inter-relationships between wealth, gender, and status
Brian E. Hemphill

Section III: Applied life and population history

9 Charting the chronology of developing dentitions
Gary T. Schwartz and M. Christopher Dean

10 Dental age revisited
Helen M. Liversidge

11 Primate dental topographic analysis and functional morphology
Peter S. Ungar and Jonathan M. Bunn

12 Forensic dental anthropology: issues and guidelines
Christopher W. Schmidt

13 Inter- and intra-specific variation in Pan tooth crown morphology: implications for Neandertal taxonomy
Shara E. Bailey

14 The quantitative genetic analysis of primate dental variation: history of the approach and prospects for the future
Oliver T. Rizk, Sarah K. Amugongo, Michael C. Mahaney, and Leslea J. Hlusko

Section IV: Forefront of technique

15 Methods of ingestion and incisal designs
Kalpana R. Agrawal, K. Y. Ang, Zhongquan Sui, Hugh T. W. Tan, and Peter W. Lucas

16 Dental reduction in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene hominids: alternative approaches to
assessing tooth size
Charles M. Fitzgerald and Simon Hillson

17 Dental microwear analysis: historical perspectives and new approaches
Peter S. Ungar, Robert S. Scott, Jessica R. Scott, and Mark Teaford

18 Virtual dentitions: touching the hidden evidence
Roberto Macchiarelli, Luca Bondioli, and Arnaud Mazurier

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