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标题：Tooth use in Aboriginal Australia
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作者：Anna Clement ; Simon Hillson ; Ignacio de la Torre 等
期刊名称：Archaeology International
电子版ISSN：2048-4194
出版年度：2011
卷号：11
页码：37-40
DOI：10.5334/ai.1111
语种：English
出版社：Ubiquity Press
摘要：The study of dental casts taken from living people avoids the ethical problems of research into human remains, while providing valuable information about diet and life styles. This article describes a study of tooth wear in dental casts of three different groups of Australian Aborigines. The authors describe their methods of recording and report differential patterns of wear in the different groups. Preliminary interpretation relates the wear patterns both to diet and to the use of teeth as tools in a range of cultural activities, results which are potentially relevant to other groups of hunter-gatherers, past and present.
关键词：teeth; dental casts; Aborigines; wear patterns; diet; hunter-gatherers