Author: Samuel Fastlicht
Publisher: Quintessenz Verlags-GmbH (Berlin)
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Tooth Mutilations and Dentistry in Pre-Columbian Mexico
Author: Samuel Fastlicht
Publisher: Quintessenz Verlags-GmbH (Berlin)
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher: Quintessenz Verlags-GmbH (Berlin)
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Ancient Maya Teeth
Author: Vera Tiesler
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 147732884X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A study of Maya dental modification from archaeological sites spanning three millennia. Dental modification was common across ancient societies, but perhaps none were more avid practitioners than the Maya. They filed their teeth flat or pointy, polished and drilled them, and crafted decorative inlays of jade and pyrite. Unusually, Maya of all social classes, ages, and professions engaged in dental modification. What did it mean to them? Ancient Maya Teeth is the most comprehensive study of Maya dental modification ever published, based on thousands of teeth recovered from 130 sites spanning three millennia. Esteemed archaeologist Vera Tiesler sifts the evidence, much of it gathered with her own hands and illustrated here with more than a hundred photographs. Exploring the underlying theory and practice of dental modification, Tiesler raises key questions. How did modifications vary across the individual’s lifespan? What tools were used? How did the Maya deal with pain—and malpractice? How did they keep their dentitions healthy, functioning, and beautiful? What were the relationships among gender, social identity, and religious identifications? Addressing these and other issues, Ancient Maya Teeth reveals how dental-modification customs shifted over the centuries, indexing other significant developments in Mayan cultural history.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 147732884X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A study of Maya dental modification from archaeological sites spanning three millennia. Dental modification was common across ancient societies, but perhaps none were more avid practitioners than the Maya. They filed their teeth flat or pointy, polished and drilled them, and crafted decorative inlays of jade and pyrite. Unusually, Maya of all social classes, ages, and professions engaged in dental modification. What did it mean to them? Ancient Maya Teeth is the most comprehensive study of Maya dental modification ever published, based on thousands of teeth recovered from 130 sites spanning three millennia. Esteemed archaeologist Vera Tiesler sifts the evidence, much of it gathered with her own hands and illustrated here with more than a hundred photographs. Exploring the underlying theory and practice of dental modification, Tiesler raises key questions. How did modifications vary across the individual’s lifespan? What tools were used? How did the Maya deal with pain—and malpractice? How did they keep their dentitions healthy, functioning, and beautiful? What were the relationships among gender, social identity, and religious identifications? Addressing these and other issues, Ancient Maya Teeth reveals how dental-modification customs shifted over the centuries, indexing other significant developments in Mayan cultural history.
Precolumbian Decoration of the Teeth in Ecuador
Author: Marshall Howard Saville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecuador
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecuador
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology
Author: Vera Tiesler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000586278
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 771
Book Description
This volume brings together a range of contributors with different and hybrid academic backgrounds to explore, through bioarchaeology, the past human experience in the territories that span Mesoamerica. This handbook provides systematic bioarchaeological coverage of skeletal research in the ancient Mesoamericas. It offers an integrated collection of engrained, bioculturally embedded explorations of relevant and timely topics, such as population shifts, lifestyles, body concepts, beauty, gender, health, foodways, social inequality, and violence. The additional treatment of new methodologies, local cultural settings, and theoretic frames rounds out the scope of this handbook. The selection of 36 chapter contributions invites readers to engage with the human condition in ancient and not-so-ancient Mesoamerica and beyond. The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology is addressed to an audience of Mesoamericanists, students, and researchers in bioarchaeology and related fields. It serves as a comprehensive reference for courses on Mesoamerica, bioarchaeology, and Native American studies.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000586278
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 771
Book Description
This volume brings together a range of contributors with different and hybrid academic backgrounds to explore, through bioarchaeology, the past human experience in the territories that span Mesoamerica. This handbook provides systematic bioarchaeological coverage of skeletal research in the ancient Mesoamericas. It offers an integrated collection of engrained, bioculturally embedded explorations of relevant and timely topics, such as population shifts, lifestyles, body concepts, beauty, gender, health, foodways, social inequality, and violence. The additional treatment of new methodologies, local cultural settings, and theoretic frames rounds out the scope of this handbook. The selection of 36 chapter contributions invites readers to engage with the human condition in ancient and not-so-ancient Mesoamerica and beyond. The Routledge Handbook of Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology is addressed to an audience of Mesoamericanists, students, and researchers in bioarchaeology and related fields. It serves as a comprehensive reference for courses on Mesoamerica, bioarchaeology, and Native American studies.
A Companion to Dental Anthropology
Author: Joel D. Irish
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119096537
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Companion to Dental Anthropology presents a collection of original readings addressing all aspects and sub-disciplines of the field of dental anthropology—from its origins and evolution through to the latest scientific research. Represents the most comprehensive coverage of all sub-disciplines of dental anthropology available today Features individual chapters written by experts in their specific area of dental research Includes authors who also present results from their research through case studies or voiced opinions about their work Offers extensive coverage of topics relating to dental evolution, morphometric variation, and pathology
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119096537
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Companion to Dental Anthropology presents a collection of original readings addressing all aspects and sub-disciplines of the field of dental anthropology—from its origins and evolution through to the latest scientific research. Represents the most comprehensive coverage of all sub-disciplines of dental anthropology available today Features individual chapters written by experts in their specific area of dental research Includes authors who also present results from their research through case studies or voiced opinions about their work Offers extensive coverage of topics relating to dental evolution, morphometric variation, and pathology
A World View of Bioculturally Modified Teeth
Author: Scott E. Burnett
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813052971
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
"Brings together studies from diverse time periods and geographic regions to deliver a comprehensive biocultural treatment of dental modification. The volume amply documents the diversity of ways humans modify their teeth and the variety of reasons they may do so."--Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg, author of What Teeth Reveal about Human Evolution Tooth modification is the longest-lasting type of body modification and the most widespread in the archaeological record. It has been practiced throughout many time periods and on every occupied continent and conveys information about individual people, their societies, and their relationships to others. This necessary volume presents the wide spectrum of intentional dental modification in humans across the globe over the past 16,000 years. These essays draw on research from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Through archaeological studies, historical and ethnographic sources, and observations of contemporary people, contributors examine instances of tooth filing, notching, inlays, dyeing, and removal. They discuss how to distinguish between these purposeful modifications of teeth and normal wear and tear or disease while demonstrating what patterns of tooth modification can reveal about people and their cultures in the past and present. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813052971
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
"Brings together studies from diverse time periods and geographic regions to deliver a comprehensive biocultural treatment of dental modification. The volume amply documents the diversity of ways humans modify their teeth and the variety of reasons they may do so."--Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg, author of What Teeth Reveal about Human Evolution Tooth modification is the longest-lasting type of body modification and the most widespread in the archaeological record. It has been practiced throughout many time periods and on every occupied continent and conveys information about individual people, their societies, and their relationships to others. This necessary volume presents the wide spectrum of intentional dental modification in humans across the globe over the past 16,000 years. These essays draw on research from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Through archaeological studies, historical and ethnographic sources, and observations of contemporary people, contributors examine instances of tooth filing, notching, inlays, dyeing, and removal. They discuss how to distinguish between these purposeful modifications of teeth and normal wear and tear or disease while demonstrating what patterns of tooth modification can reveal about people and their cultures in the past and present. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen
Ronald E. Goldstein's Esthetics in Dentistry
Author: Ronald E. Goldstein
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119272939
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1517
Book Description
Die dritte Auflage von Ronald E. Goldstein`s Esthetics in Dentistry stellt eine gründliche Aktualisierung und Erweiterung dieses maßgeblichen Referenzwerks dar. Behandelt werden sämtliche Aspekte der ästhetischen und kosmetischen Zahnheilkunde, von den Prinzipien und Behandlungsverfahren bis hin zu spezifischen Herausforderungen und Komplikationen. - Untersucht umfassend sämtliche Aspekte der ästhetischen und kosmetischen Zahnheilkunde. - Enthält 23 neue Kapitel internationaler Experten des Fachgebiets, vorhandene Kapitel wurde vollständig aktualisiert. - Mit mehr als 3700 hochwertigen Fotos und Illustrationen. - Präsentiert klinische Fallstudien und Behandlungsalgorithmen und macht dieses Buch für den Klinikalltag noch bedeutsamer. - Legt den Schwerpunkt auf klinische Szenarien. Alle Informationen sind umfassend wissenschaftlich belegt.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119272939
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1517
Book Description
Die dritte Auflage von Ronald E. Goldstein`s Esthetics in Dentistry stellt eine gründliche Aktualisierung und Erweiterung dieses maßgeblichen Referenzwerks dar. Behandelt werden sämtliche Aspekte der ästhetischen und kosmetischen Zahnheilkunde, von den Prinzipien und Behandlungsverfahren bis hin zu spezifischen Herausforderungen und Komplikationen. - Untersucht umfassend sämtliche Aspekte der ästhetischen und kosmetischen Zahnheilkunde. - Enthält 23 neue Kapitel internationaler Experten des Fachgebiets, vorhandene Kapitel wurde vollständig aktualisiert. - Mit mehr als 3700 hochwertigen Fotos und Illustrationen. - Präsentiert klinische Fallstudien und Behandlungsalgorithmen und macht dieses Buch für den Klinikalltag noch bedeutsamer. - Legt den Schwerpunkt auf klinische Szenarien. Alle Informationen sind umfassend wissenschaftlich belegt.
Funerary Practices and Models in the Ancient Andes
Author: Peter Eeckhout
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107059348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This edited volume focuses on the funerary archaeology of the Pan-Andean area in the pre-Hispanic period. The contributors examine the treatment of the dead and provide an understanding of how these ancient groups coped with mortality, as well as the ways in which they strove to overcome the effects of death. The contributors also present previously unpublished discoveries and employ a range of academic and analytical approaches that have rarely - if ever - been utilised in South America before. The book covers the Formative Period to the end of the Inca Empire, and the chapters together comprise a state-of-the-art summary of all the best research on Andean funerary archaeology currently being carried out around the globe.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107059348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This edited volume focuses on the funerary archaeology of the Pan-Andean area in the pre-Hispanic period. The contributors examine the treatment of the dead and provide an understanding of how these ancient groups coped with mortality, as well as the ways in which they strove to overcome the effects of death. The contributors also present previously unpublished discoveries and employ a range of academic and analytical approaches that have rarely - if ever - been utilised in South America before. The book covers the Formative Period to the end of the Inca Empire, and the chapters together comprise a state-of-the-art summary of all the best research on Andean funerary archaeology currently being carried out around the globe.
Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World
Author: Emory Dean Keoke
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438109903
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Describes the lives and achievements of American Indians and discusses their contributions to the world.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438109903
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Describes the lives and achievements of American Indians and discusses their contributions to the world.
The Influence of Teeth, Diet, and Habits on the Human Face
Author: D. M. Davies
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 1483192822
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The Influence of Teeth, Diet, and Habits on the Human Face discusses the relation between dental health, diet, and habits to the facial characteristics of humans. The book is comprised of 12 chapters that cover the various aspects of the relationship of the said variables. The text first compares the facial traits of primitives and civilized peoples, and then proceeds to differentiating the characteristics of primitive and modern diets. The next chapter discusses disparity between meat and vegetable diet. The next five chapters deal topics related to dental health, such as tooth diseases among primitive tribes, establishing racial links through analyzing teeth, and some unusual dental customs. The remaining three chapters present the conclusion, review of related literature, and methodology of the study. The book will be of great interest to dentists, physicians, anthropologists, and sociologists.
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 1483192822
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The Influence of Teeth, Diet, and Habits on the Human Face discusses the relation between dental health, diet, and habits to the facial characteristics of humans. The book is comprised of 12 chapters that cover the various aspects of the relationship of the said variables. The text first compares the facial traits of primitives and civilized peoples, and then proceeds to differentiating the characteristics of primitive and modern diets. The next chapter discusses disparity between meat and vegetable diet. The next five chapters deal topics related to dental health, such as tooth diseases among primitive tribes, establishing racial links through analyzing teeth, and some unusual dental customs. The remaining three chapters present the conclusion, review of related literature, and methodology of the study. The book will be of great interest to dentists, physicians, anthropologists, and sociologists.