Three-Dimensional Proxies to Dental Wear Characterization in a Known Age-at-Death Skeletal Collection
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Title: | Three-Dimensional Proxies to Dental Wear Characterization in a Known Age-at-Death Skeletal Collection |
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Authors: | Cuesta-Torralvo, Elisabeth | Pacheco, Daniela | Martínez, Laura M. | Romero, Alejandro | Umbelino, Cláudia | Avià, Yasmina | Pérez-Pérez, Alejandro |
Research Group/s: | Grupo de Inmunología, Biología Celular y del Desarrollo |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Biotecnología |
Keywords: | Dental wear | 3D morphometrics | Dental topography | Age-at-death |
Knowledge Area: | Biología Celular |
Issue Date: | 5-Jan-2021 |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
Citation: | Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 2021, 28: 1261-1275. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-020-09496-1 |
Abstract: | Dental wear is a function of age-at-death in human skeletal populations. However, discrete scoring proxies of dentine exposure areas have shown to largely depend on dietary life-history and cultural practices. In addition, dental wear greatly limits research on dental morphological variability since unworn teeth are scarce in osteo-archaeological repositories. Age at death is seldom known, and actual trends in dental crown loss are generally assumed to be age-dependent. We applied three-dimensional (3D) dental crown continuous metrics (geometric morphometrics and topographic shape descriptors) to explore the association of first and second permanent maxillary (UM1 and UM2) and mandibular (LM1 and LM2) molar wear with age in the Coimbra International Exchange known age-at-death skull collection. Results are indicative of significant regressions between the morphometric variables and age-at-death, though showing coefficients of determination of 1.4–23.9%. The precision percentages for determining age-at-death from dental crown shape varied from 31.8 to 45.3%, while a significant portion of the overall shape variation of the molar teeth studied could be attributed to anatomical traits independently of dental wear, since modern human populations display a great variability in cusp patterns and molar teeth relative size. |
Sponsor: | This research was funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad grant number CGL2014-52611-C2-1-P. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/115024 |
ISSN: | 1072-5369 (Print) | 1573-7764 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10816-020-09496-1 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC part of Springer Nature 2021 |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-020-09496-1 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - Grupo de Inmunología - Artículos de Revistas |
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