CULTURE, ECOLOGY AND DENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY

JOHN R. LUKACS (University of Oregon, Eugene, U.S.A.)

With a Foreward by: ALBERT A. DAHLBERG

1992 • Pages: 320 + 24 Plates • Size: 180 × 240 mm • ISBN 81-85264-06-6 • Binding: Hard •

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(Human Ecology Special Issue No. 2)

An international group of experts in dental anthropology address key issues involving the impact of cultural and ecological factors on human dental development and variability. Living and prehistoric human populations from Africa, Australia, Europe and North America are included in this comprehensive volume which gives special attention to Asian populations. The wide range of topics discussed in this volume include how variation in cultural, and ecological factors influence calcification and eruption of the dentition, heritability of dental variations, tooth size and its use as an indicator of environmental stress of genetic determination, the spatial and temporal distribution of dental disease, and finally variation in dental morphology and tooth size between ethnic groups and

prehistoric skeletal series.  

                                                                 CONTENTS

ALBERT A. DAHLBERG. Foreward

JOHN R. LUKACS. Editor’s Introduction

PART I: GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE DENTITION

1. Simon W. Hillson. Studies of Growth in Dental Tissues

2. K. Visweswara Rao. Differential Growth and Dental Eruption in Indian Children

3. Papia Banerjee, Arup R. Banerjee and  A.R. Banerjee. Eruption of Permanent Teeth in

Bengalee School Children

4. V. Kaul. Dentition and Dental Arch Development

5. J.C. Sharma. Dental Morphology and Odontometry of Twins and Heritability of Dental

Variation

6. Grant C. Townsend. Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Morphometric Dental

Variation

7. Tasman Brown. Developmental, Morphological and Functional Aspects of Occlusion in

Australian Aboriginals

Part II: DENTAL PATHOLOGY: PAST AND PRESENT

8. Charles F. Hildebolt, Michael W. Vannier and Michael K. Shrout. Alveolar Bone Loss

Quantification with Digittal Bitewing Radiographs

9. V. Rami Reddy, B.K. Chandrasekhar Reddy and K. Manohar. Periodontal Disease and

Dental Caries in Rural Andhra Pradesh: Evidence and Contributing Factors

10. John Maunders, Alan Goodman and Alain Froment. The Ecology of Dental Enamel

Hypoplasias Among Seven Cameroonian Groups

11. Subhash R. Walimbre and John R. Lukacs. Dental Pathology at the Origin of

Agriculture: Evidence from Chalcolithic Populations of the Deccan Plateau

12. Gloria Y’ Edynak. Dental Pathology. A Factor in Post Pleistocene Yugoslav Dental

Reduction

Part III: ODONTOMETRIC VARIATION: ASYMMETRY AND EVOLUTION

13. Charles E. Boklage. Method and Meaning in the Analysis of Development Asymmetries

14. Edward F. Harris. Laterality in Human Odontometrics: Analysis of a Contemporary

American White Series

15. Kenneth A.R. Kennedy. Tooth Size Variation of the Veddas and Prehistoric Sri Lankans

16. Paul W. Sciulli. Phenotypic Selection. Genetic Drift and Molar Size in Prehistoric

Population of Ohio. The Pearson Village Population

PART IV: PATTERNS OF DENTAL ATTRITION

17. Samvits Kaul and Robert S. Corruccini. Dental Arch Length Reduction Through

Interproximal Attrition in Modern Australian Aborigines

18. J.F. Van Reenen. Dental Wear in San (Bushmen)

19. Robert F. Pastor. Dietary Adaptation and Dental Microwear in Mesolithic and

Chalcolithic South Asia

PART V: MORPHOMETRIC DENTAL VARIATIONS: POPULATION COMPARISONS

20. Brian E. Hemphill, John R. Lukacs and  V. Rammi Reddy. Tooth Size Appartionment in

Modern India: Factors of Caste, Language and Geography

21. M.K. Bhasin and S.L. Malik. Sources of Variation in Dental Morphology. Tooth Size and

Arch Dimensions of Ten Populations in India

22. A.M. Haeussler and C.G. Turner II. The Dentition of Soviet Central Asians and the Quest

for the New World Ancestors

23. Norikazu Ohnu. Variation in Rotated Maxillary Incisors in Five Asian Populations

Index

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