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Dental Morphology for Anthropology: An Illustrated Manual book cover

1st Edition

Dental Morphology for Anthropology An Illustrated Manual

By Heather Edgar Copyright 2017
202 Pages 1158 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 1158 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 1158 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This work provides a new, comprehensive update to the Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System (ASUDAS). Drawing upon her extensive experience in informatics, curating data, and dental morphological data acquisition, Edgar has developed accessible and user-friendly standardized images and descriptions of dental morphological variants.  The manual provides nearly 400 illustrations... Read more

List of figures

Forward

Acknowledgements

Photo credits

  1. Rationale: Why study dental morphology, and why use this book to do it?

    2. 1.2 Problems collecting dental morphological data

    1.3 Dental morphological data are useful

    Hominin evolutionary relationships

    Worldwide patterns of variation

    Intra-regional variation

    Intra-cemetery relationships

    Individual level analyses

  2. A note about the use of the words, "race" and "ancestry"

  3. How to study dental morphology

    4. 3.1 Data collection

    Scoring types

    Breakpoints

    Weighted frequencies

    3.2 Data analysis

    Biological distance

    Individual estimation of group membership

  4. How to use this manual

  5. Data collection pages

  6. Manual pages

  7. Root traits

  8. Arch and tooth reference pages

8.1 Arches with directions

8.2 Individual tooth directions/cusp names

8.3 Deciduous arches (teeth to avoid)

9. Individual tooth directions/cusp names

10. Deciduous arches

Glossary

References

Index

Trait expression summary pages

Biography

Heather J.H. Edgar is Curator of Human Osteology for the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, and Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, USA. Her research focuses on the ways in which historical events and cultural trends shape the biology of populations, especially in the U.S. and Mexico.

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