Coca chewing in prehistoric coastal Peru
โ
Etty Indriati; Jane E. Buikstra
๐
Article
๐
2001
๐
John Wiley and Sons
๐
English
โ 389 KB
In this study, we describe the dental health of four prehistoric human populations from the southern coast of Peru, an area in which independent archaeological evidence suggests that the practice of cocaleaf chewing was relatively common. A repeated pattern of cervical-root caries accompanying root