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Ritual tooth ablation in and dentometric assessment of a newly discovered collective burial at the Hobi shell-mound site, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

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ID7986159
AuthorsOsamu Kondo (0000-0001-9729-1446, The University of Tokyo), Soichiro Mizushima (Department of Anatomy, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki), Nobuo Shigehara (Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties), Yasuhiro Yamada (0000-0003-4686-7243, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Year2022
Volume130
Issue1
Pages33-38
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropological Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0918-7960 • E-ISSN: 1348-8570
PublisherAnthropological Society of Nippon (PUBLISHER • JP)
DOI10.1537/ase.220218
OpenAlexW4285197604
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited11

Ritual tooth ablation was a characteristic form of body expression for the prehistoric Jomon people. During the 2010–2013 excavation at the Hobi shell-mound site, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, a new case of secondary collective burial, banjo-shuseki-bo, was discovered, in which additional cases of ritual tooth ablation were present in human skeletal remains. Here we describe the morphology and tooth extraction status of individual mandibles, and assess the interindividual relationships on the basis of tooth crown diameter. Although a certain degree of kin relation was predicted among individuals from the new collective burial, which seems comparable to those found in modern Japanese twin pairs, almost the same degree of close kin relationship was detected in interindividual variation and in intersite variation with the neighboring Jomon sites

Archaeology · Crown (dentistry · Excavation · Geography · Prehistory · Tooth crown · dental development and anomalies · Dental Trauma and Treatments · Dentistry · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Medicine

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Citation span2022 - 2025 (4)
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