Technical note: Uto-Aztecan premolars in Ohio Valley populations

✍ Scribed by Johnston, Cheryl A.; Sciulli, Paul W.

• Book ID: 101214026
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 11 KB
• Volume: 100
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-9483
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8644(199606)100:2<293::aid-ajpa8>3.0.co;2-y

✦ Synopsis

Morris et al. (1978)

described a morphological variant of the permanent maxillary anterior premolar limited to Native Americans which they termed the "Uto-Aztecan premolar": "[The Uto-Aztecan premolar] is characterized by marked buccolingual expansion of the buccal cusp, the paracone, of the first premolar. The paracone is much broadened distally and the distal portion possesses a large, characteristic fossa. A lobular ridge,