First approaches to the study of diet and oral health of populations that inhabitated southern region of Sierras Pampeanas (Argentina) during late Holocene

FABRA, MARIANA; GONZALEZ, CLAUDINA

Homo, Journal of Comparative human biology

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Año: 2011

0018-442X

p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt">The aim of this work is to study, from a bioarchaeological perspective, the diet and oral health of the populations that inhabited Central Argentina in two periods which would reflect changes in subsistence strategies: earlier late Holocene (ca. 2500-1500 years BP) and later late Holocene (ca.1500-400 years BP). The sample is composed by 83 adult individuals from 47 archaeological sites. We considered 5 non-specific indicators of stress, infectious and degenerative diseases: hypoplasia of dental enamel, dental caries, abscesses, antemortem teeth loss, and calculus. We also considered hypercementosis, dens in dens and agenesis. We test intra-observer error by means of intraclass correlation coefficient and analysis of variance of repeated measures. We calculated prevalence by sex, age, geographic sub-region, and chronological perio