dc.contributor.author |
Littleton, Judith |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2018-10-11T03:32:21Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2018-03 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
American Journal of Human Biology 30(2):19 pages Article number e23076 Mar 2018 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1042-0533 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/40909 |
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dc.description.abstract |
OBJECTIVES:Studies of hunter-gatherer oral pathology, particularly in Australia, often focus upon dental wear and caries or assume that historic studies of Aboriginal people reflect the precontact past. Consequently the range of population variation has been underestimated. In this paper dental pathology from human remains from Roonka are compared with a model of dental pathology derived from historic studies. The aim is to identify aspects of dental pathology indicative of regional or intra-population diversity. METHODS:Adult dentitions (n = 115) dating from the mid to late Holocene were recorded for the following conditions: dental wear, caries, periapical voids, calculus, periodontal disease and antemortem tooth loss. Statistical analysis was used to identify patterns of dental pathology and to identify causal relationships between conditions. RESULTS:Dental wear is marked while dental caries rates are extremely low. Other indications of dental pathology are uncommon (<7% of teeth affected). Temporal heterogeneity is apparent: there are 3 young adults with caries who died in the postcontact period. There is also a small group of middle age to old adults with disproportionate abscessing and pulp exposure who may represent temporal variation or heterogeneity in individual frailty. CONCLUSIONS:The results confirm dental wear as the major cause of dental pathology in this group and that, at a general level, historic accounts do correspond with this archeological sample. However, intra-sample heterogeneity is apparent while 2 dental conditions, calculus and periodontal disease, along with the pattern of sex differences deviate from expectation, demonstrating that to identify regional variation attention needs to be paid to the dentoalveolar complex as a whole. |
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dc.format.medium |
Print-Electronic |
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dc.language |
eng |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights |
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: American Journal of Human Biology 30(2):19 pages Article number e23076 Mar 2018, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23076. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/licensing/self-archiving.html |
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dc.subject |
Tooth |
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dc.subject |
Humans |
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dc.subject |
Tooth Diseases |
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dc.subject |
Prevalence |
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dc.subject |
Models, Biological |
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dc.subject |
Archaeology |
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dc.subject |
Adolescent |
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dc.subject |
Adult |
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dc.subject |
Aged |
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Aged, 80 and over |
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Middle Aged |
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Oceanic Ancestry Group |
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dc.subject |
South Australia |
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dc.subject |
Female |
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dc.subject |
Male |
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dc.subject |
Young Adult |
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dc.title |
Hunter-gatherer dental pathology: Do historic accounts of Aboriginal Australians correspond to the archeological record of dental disease? |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1002/ajhb.23076 |
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pubs.issue |
2 |
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pubs.volume |
30 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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dc.identifier.pmid |
29139168 |
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pubs.publication-status |
Published |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
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pubs.subtype |
Journal Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
718061 |
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pubs.org-id |
Arts |
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pubs.org-id |
Social Sciences |
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pubs.org-id |
Anthropology |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
1520-6300 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2017-11-16 |
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pubs.dimensions-id |
29139168 |
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