Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Comparative Odontometrics of Prehistoric Amerindians of Central and Eastern North America
AU  - Schneider KN
AU  - Mahaney MC
AU  - Sciulli PW
Y1  - 1984
VL  - 22
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 217
EP  - 221
KW  - Prehistoric Amerindians
KW  - Comparative Odontometrics
KW  - Dental variation
KW  - Subsistence base
N2  - 
N2  - Mesiodistal measurements of all permanent teeth from a series of ten prehistoric Ohio Amerindian samples (1000 BC—1300 AD) were used in an analysis of odontometric variation. Samples from Ohio were compared to synchronic and allochronic samples from Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois.
Mahalanobis' generalized distance (D2) was computed and principal coordinates analysis used as a clustering techniques to assess biologic relationships. Although a pattern of dental reduction is noted, the results of the study do not consistently support the hypothesis which predicts dental reduction as a concomitant result of a transition from hunting-gathering to horticultural subsistence bases.

ER  -