Gold Mine: Oral health of a prehistoric Native American population
by Nzingha, Kito, M.A., STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON, 2011, 108 pages; 1505679

Abstract:

The turn of the first millennium AD marked an agricultural transition in Southeast North America whereby maize cultivation intensified; the Gold Mine site has been dated to this time. An increase in fermentable carbohydrate intake would imply increased incidence of dental caries. Jesper Boldsen's study on a medieval population in Tirup Denmark did not find any significant differences in sex-based crude caries frequencies (1997). However, Boldsen did discover sex-based age of death differences in caries distribution among the adults. Boldsen's approach is applied to the Gold Mine (16RI13) skeletal sample. It was found that males had higher frequencies of caries than females; however the difference was statistically insignificant. There were also significant correlations of occurrence between pathologies that characterize the oral health of the sample. The lack of reassociation due to extensive commingling and fragmentation prevented the age estimation of adult dentitions and limits the reportable information about the sample.

 
AdviserDawnie Wolfe Steadman
SchoolSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON
SourceMAI/ 50-04, p. , Feb 2012
Source TypeThesis
SubjectsPhysical anthropology; Forensic anthropology; Native American studies
Publication Number1505679
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