BOOKS

HUMAN ECOLOGY

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 • Price: US $ 75/- Rs. 1450/-

(Human Ecology Special Issue No. 2)

CULTURE, ECOLOGY AND DENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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
  8. PART II: DENTAL PATHOLOGY: PAST AND PRESENT

  9. Charles F. Hildebolt, Michael W. Vannier and Michael K. Shrout. Alveolar Bone Loss Quantification with Digittal Bitewing Radiographs
  10. V. Rami Reddy, B.K. Chandrasekhar Reddy and K. Manohar. Periodontal Disease and Dental Caries in Rural Andhra Pradesh: Evidence and Contributing Factors
  11. John Maunders, Alan Goodman and Alain Froment. The Ecology of Dental Enamel Hypoplasias Among Seven Cameroonian Groups
  12. Subhash R. Walimbre and John R. Lukacs. Dental Pathology at the Origin of Agriculture: Evidence from Chalcolithic Populations of the Deccan Plateau
  13. Gloria Y’ Edynak. Dental Pathology. A Factor in Post Pleistocene Yugoslav Dental Reduction
  14. PART III: ODONTOMETRIC VARIATION: ASYMMETRY AND EVOLUTION

  15. Charles E. Boklage. Method and Meaning in the Analysis of Development Asymmetries
  16. Edward F. Harris. Laterality in Human Odontometrics: Analysis of a Contemporary American White Series
  17. Kenneth A.R. Kennedy. Tooth Size Variation of the Veddas and Prehistoric Sri Lankans
  18. Paul W. Sciulli. Phenotypic Selection. Genetic Drift and Molar Size in Prehistoric Population of Ohio. The Pearson Village Population
  19. PART IV: PATTERNS OF DENTAL ATTRITION

  20. Samvits Kaul and Robert S. Corruccini. Dental Arch Length Reduction Through Interproximal Attrition in Modern Australian Aborigines
  21. J.F. Van Reenen. Dental Wear in San (Bushmen)
  22. Robert F. Pastor. Dietary Adaptation and Dental Microwear in Mesolithic and Chalcolithic South Asia
  23. PART V: MORPHOMETRIC DENTAL VARIATIONS: POPULATION COMPARISONS

  24. Brian E. Hemphill, John R. Lukacs and V. Rammi Reddy. Tooth Size Appartionment in Modern India: Factors of Caste, Language and Geography
  25. M.K. Bhasin and S.L. Malik. Sources of Variation in Dental Morphology. Tooth Size and Arch Dimensions of Ten Populations in India
  26. A.M. Haeussler and C.G. Turner II. The Dentition of Soviet Central Asians and the Quest for the New World Ancestors
  27. Norikazu Ohnu. Variation in Rotated Maxillary Incisors in Five Asian Populations

Index

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