Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic TY - JOUR JO - Anthropologie (Brno) TI - The importance of bilateral asymmetry analysis on human archaeological Pre-Conquest populations (the case of six Colombian Pre-Conquest populations) AU - Rodríguez-Flórez CD AU - Colantonio SE Y1 - 2008 VL - 46 IS - 1 PB - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic SN - 0323-1119 SP - 19 EP - 23 KW - Bilateral asymmetry KW - Upper permanent dentition KW - Dental morphology KW - Shovel shape KW - Distal accessory ridge KW - Marginal ridge KW - Carabelli's trait KW - Colombia N2 - N2 - Bilateral asymmetry has been an important field of study in anthropology. The evaluation of bilateral asymmetry of four traits (one by type of upper teeth) is carried out in this study on six pre-Conquest human populations from Colombia (South America). Results show the importance of a previous analysis of bilateral asymmetry in archaeological fragmented samples and its relevance in posterior interpretations. ER -