This chapter provides a discussion of the way that dental disease is used in biological
anthropology and paleopathology. Various conditions are included dental caries, calculus …

In skeletal remains, teeth are valuable sources of information regarding age, diet, and
health. Dental wear is especially helpful in reconstructions of dietary patterns in populations …

Recent developments in High-Throughput DNA sequencing (HTS) technologies and ancient
DNA (aDNA) research have opened access to the characterization of the microbial …

The Mlambalasi rockshelter in the Iringa Region of southern Tanzania has rich artifactual
deposits spanning the Later Stone Age (LSA), Iron Age, and historic periods. Middle Stone …

Here we present a detailed palaeopathological study of the hominin mandible ATE9-1 found
at the Sima del Elefante site (TE), Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain. This fossil represents the …

Objectives Textual sources from the Roman period point to the existence of dietary
differences between the sexes. The aim of this study was to assess the palaeopathological …

Chronic apical periodontitis (CAP) is a unique dynamic interaction between microbial
invasions and host defense mechanisms, resulting in infiltration of immune cells, bone …

This paper presents a detailed palaeopathological study of the orofacial lesions present in
Skull 5 from the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site. Besides testing a previous …

Dental Anthropology has produced a huge amount of information in the last decades,
covering many different aspects of human biological and cultural life. For the last twenty …

Background With the aim to study dental pathological lesions in an early Swedish modern
population, with special reference to sex variances of dental caries, the prevalence and …