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Dental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Contexts
- 1st Edition - September 9, 2019
- Editors: Christopher W. Schmidt, James T. Watson
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 5 9 9 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 6 0 0 - 1
Dental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Contexts provides a single source for disseminating the current state-of-the-art research regarding dental wear across a variety o… Read more
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Request a sales quoteDental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Contexts provides a single source for disseminating the current state-of-the-art research regarding dental wear across a variety of hominoid species under a number of temporal and spatial contexts. The volume begins with a brief introductory chapter addressing the general history, understandings and approaches to the study of dental wear. Remaining chapters cover dental macrowear and dental microwear. Students and professionals in anthropology, specifically paleoanthropologists, bioarcheologists, archaeologists, and primatologists will find this book to be a valuable resource. In addition, it is a helpful guide for dentists and other dental professionals interested in dental function.
- Covers a wide range of topics, including method and theory, macrowear and microwear in primates, and fossil hominins
- Highlights several recent technological innovations, including occlusal fingerprinting, considerations of enamel mechanical properties, and microwear texture
- Includes case studies from archaeological populations
Practitioners and Students in anthropology, specifically paleoanthropologists, bioarchaeologists, archaeologists, and primatologists. Supplemental text for courses in Dental Anthropology and Bioarchaeology
- No. of pages: 290
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 9, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128155998
- eBook ISBN: 9780128156001
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Christopher W. Schmidt
Affiliations and expertise
University of Indianapolis, Department of Anthropology, IN, USAJW
James T. Watson
Dr. Watson’s research examines health and disease in prehistoric populations through their skeletal remains. He is specifically interested in understanding prehistoric human adaptations in desert ecosystems and the role local resources play in the adoption of agriculture and their impact on health. His current projects involve the excavation and analysis of the earliest farmers in the Sonoran Desert and of incipient agriculturalists in the Atacama Desert, along the northern coast of Chile.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Curator of Bioarchaeology (ASM) University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USARead Dental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Contexts on ScienceDirect