The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology 2018
DOI: 10.1002/9781118584538.ieba0124
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Dental biology/ anthropology

Abstract: Dental remains are often found at fossil, archaeological, and forensic sites, as they are small and hard and therefore resist damage. Two of the hard tissues of teeth, enamel and dentine, preserve incremental growth markings that reflect circadian (short‐period) and infradian (long‐period) rhythms. These markings provide paleoanthropologists, bioarchaeologists, and forensic anthropologists with a wealth of information about growth and development. They also allow precise estimates of age at death in the remain… Show more

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