El desgaste dental. ¿Un método fiable para la estimación de la edad?
- Trujillo Mederos, Aioze
- Calderón Ordóñez, Alejandra
ISSN: 1887-8687
Year of publication: 2011
Issue Title: Jornadas de Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica, JIA (3as : 5-7 de mayo 2010 : UAB)
Issue: 5
Pages: 495-498
Type: Article
More publications in: Estrat Crític: Revista d'Arqueologia
Abstract
The following poster tries to evaluate the accuracy of tooth wear, on its own, as a method for age of death estimation. We are trying to see if we can use them in different cultural contexts, or if we have to first take into account the particularities of the population under study. For this purpose we have chosen part of the bioanthropological remain from the inca site of Chinchero (Cuzco, Perú), because their osteological age doesn’t match the one obtained from the tooth wear analysis, probably due to the continuos coca leaf (erytroxylon coca) chewing among these populations.