Dental anthropology : fundamentals, limits, and prospects
The study of teeth is an important key to the biology and culture of past and living populations. Their extreme hardness, their numerous and highly heritable characteristics and their susceptibility to environmental responses 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 completely new, particularly the syntheses. The basic experience and literature is of a broad international and multilingual origin.Foreword / Shelley Saunders -- Foreword / Trinette Constandse-Westermann -- 1. Dental Anthropology - An Introduction / Kurt W. Alt, Friedrich W. Rosing and Maria Teschler-Nicola -- 2. Teeth in History. 2.1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Weimar, and Dental Anthropology / Kurt W. Alt. 2.2. The History of Dental Anthropology / Kurt W. Alt, C. Loring Brace and Jens C. Turp. 2.3. Roll Call: Thirty-Two White Horses on a Red Field. The Advantages of the FDI Two-Digit System of Designating Teeth / Kurt W. Alt and Jens C. Turp. 2.4. A Recently Discovered Etruscan Dental Bridgework / Maria Teschler-Nicola, Michaela Kneissel and Franz Brandstatter -- 3. Dental Morphology, Structure, and Evolution. 3.1. Anatomy and Morphology of Human Teeth / Jens C. Turp and Kurt W. Alt. 3.2. Hereditary Dental Anomalies / Kurt W. Alt and Jens C. Turp. 3.3. Micromorphological Features of Human Dental Enamel / Ralf J. Radlanski. 3.4. The Temporomandibular Joint / Ales Obrez and Jens C. Turp3.5. The Maxillary Sinus of Extant Catarrhine Primates / Thomas Koppe and Hiroshi Nagai. 3.6. Current Aspects of Dental Research in Paleoanthropology / Winfried Henke -- 4. Dental Pathology and Epidemiology. 4.1. Caries - Ancient Plague of Humankind / Peter Caselitz. 4.2. Periodontal Diseases - Etiology, Classification, and Diagnosis / Thomas F. Strohm and Kurt W. Alt. 4.3. Periapical Lesions - Clinical and Anthropological Aspects / Kurt W. Alt, Jens C. Turp and Rudiger Wachter. 4.4. Paleopathological Evidence of Jaw Tumors / Eugen Strouhal. 4.5. Enamel Hypoplasias in Archaeological Skeletal Remains / Michael Schultz, Petra Carli-Thiele and Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz -- 5. Nutrition and Human Behaviour. 5.1. Diet and Nutrition in Prehistoric Central Europe / Hermann Prossinger and Christoph Willms. 5.2. "Archives of Childhood" - The Research Potential of Trace Element Analyses of Ancient Human Dental Enamel / Gisela Grupe5.3. Gross Dental Wear and Dental Microwear in Historical Perspective / Jerome C. Rose and Peter S. Ungar. 5.4. Artificial Modifications on Human Teeth / Kurt W. Alt and Sandra L. Pichler -- 6. Age and Sex Estimation. 6.1. Dental Age Estimation of Non-Adults. A Review of Methods and Principles / Helen M. Liversidge, Berthold Herdeg and Friedrich W. Rosing. 6.2. Dental Age in Adults - A Review of Estimation Methods / Friedrich W. Rosing and Sigrid I. Kvaal. 6.3. Degeneration in Dental Hard Tissues and Pulp / Tore Solheim. 6.4. Sex Determination Using Tooth Dimensions / Maria Teschler-Nicola and Hermann Prossinger. 6.5. The Reconstruction of Missing Tooth Dimensions as a Prerequisite for Sex Determination / Hermann Prossinger -- 7. Geographical and Familial Tooth Variation. 7.1. World Variation of Tooth Size / Sigmar Schnutenhaus and Friedrich W. Rosing. 7.2. Kinship Studies in Skeletal Remains - Concepts and Examples / Kurt W. Alt and Werner Vach
Kurt W. Alt, Friedrich W. Rösing, Maria Teschler-Nicola (eds.)ill. ; 25 cm
