Hunter –gatherer dental pathology: Do historic accounts of Aboriginal Australians correspond to the archeological record of dental disease?

ConclusionsThe results confirm dental wear as the major cause of dental pathology in this group and that, at a general level, historic accounts do correspond with this archeological sample. However, intra‐sample heterogeneity is apparent while 2 dental conditions, calculus and periodontal disease, along with the pattern of sex differences deviate from expectation, demonstrating that to identify regional variation attention needs to be paid to the dentoalveolar complex as a whole.
Source: American Journal of Human Biology - Category: Biology Authors: Tags: ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research