A new dental wear pattern and evidence for high carbohydrate consumption in a Brazilian Archaic skeletal population
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| ANO | 1983 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | American Journal of Physical Anthropology |
| ISSN | 0002-9483 |
| E-ISSN | 1096-8644 |
| EDITORA | Berghahn Journals (United Kingdom) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.1330610113 |
| CITAÇÕES | 27 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
292174d3158909b82c5605f698200d78
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Resumo
An apparently new type of dental wear pattern, lingual surface attrition of the maxillary anterior teeth (LSAMAT), has been found in 85% of 46 adult crania from a 3000–4200 BP Archaic site called Corondó near the Atlantic Ocean coast of Brazil. LSAMAT is associated with a high caries rate (60% of 77 adults; 11% of 1,219 permanent teeth) in what on archeologica grounds alone would be considered a mainly meat‐eating population. It is suggested that both LSAMAT and caries resulted from eating some starchy plant like manioc.