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标题：A method for studying human teeth excavated in archaeological sites: A focus on recent research sites
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作者：Pang Min-Kyu
期刊名称：Anthropological Notebooks
印刷版ISSN：1408-032X
出版年度：2017
卷号：23
期号：2
页码：5-19
出版社：Slovene Anthropological Society
摘要：For anthropologists studying archaeological, fossil, and forensic remains in order to understandthe biology of ancient human communities and follow the course of evolution,it is essential to identify an individual from their fragmentary remains, particularly teeth.Teeth are unique among the resistant anatomical parts of fossil skeletons having beenexposed to various forces throughout the person’s life. Dental anthropology is also appliedto living people, using many of the same techniques employed for analysing ancientremains. One primary theme of this discipline is to study variation in size and shape ofthe teeth, as recorded in casts of dentition from living people or evaluated in the skullsof archaeological and fossil specimens using metric measurements and observations ofnon-metric traits. Metric and non-metric data were compiled from published reports onarchaeological sites in Korea and elsewhere. These data indicate that in contrast to allother ethnic groups, Koreans exhibit several non-metric traits in relatively high frequency.Interestingly, they have lower frequencies of Carabelli’s traits in comparison to WesternEurasians. Based on the distribution pattern of dental traits, Koreans possess lineages froma high proportion of northeast Asian populations as well as southern groups of north-easternAsian populations.
关键词：dental anthropology; Korean teeth; shovel-shaped incisor; distal trigonid;crest; Carabelli’s traits