Dental modifications and tool use in the western Great Basin

✍ Scribed by Clark Spencer Larsen

• Book ID: 102703208
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 853 KB
• Volume: 67
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-9483
• DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330670411

✦ Synopsis

Nondietary function is an important concern in the study of the human dentition and its role in adaptation. The purpose of the present investigation is to describe and interpret a pattern of dental wear in the anterior dentition of precontact hunter-gatherers that inhabited the western Great Basin. These data are discussed in light of ethnographic documentation as a means by which the archaeological record is linked with associated behavior of the representative populations. A series of 171 dentitions from a