Study of dental calculus in archaeological populations from northern Chile

Dental calculus and dental pathologies of 40 adults from 4 archaeological sites from the coastand valley of northern Chile were studied: MO 1/6, PLM-4, AZ-8 and CAM-9, analyzing 10individuals per site. In all of the dental calculus analyzed, phytolith and starches were found,except on the Late Archa...

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Autores principales: Arriaza, Bernardo Tomás, Huamán, Luis, Villanueva, Fiorella, Tornero, Roxana, Standen, Vivien, Aravena, Natalia
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad Católica del Norte, Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Museo 2019
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Acceso en línea:http://revistas.ucn.cl/index.php/estudios-atacamenos/article/view/976
http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/80148
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Sumario:Dental calculus and dental pathologies of 40 adults from 4 archaeological sites from the coastand valley of northern Chile were studied: MO 1/6, PLM-4, AZ-8 and CAM-9, analyzing 10individuals per site. In all of the dental calculus analyzed, phytolith and starches were found,except on the Late Archaic MO 1/6 site, which although did not present starch did presentphytoliths. These results are consistent with the macroscopical observation, where individualsbelonging to MO 1/6 site do not present dental cavities and generally have better dental healththan those individuals from the Late Intermediate and Late Period, both valley and the coastassociated with a mixed diet. Furthermore, a good concordance between grave goods plants andthe identified varieties in the dental calculus was observed in individuals from Late Intermediateand Late period sites.