Culture, Diet, and Dental Reduction in Mesolithic Forager-Fishers of Yugoslavia

Dento-alveolar lesions and palaeodietary inferences from the Paso Alsina 1 site (eastern Pampean–Patagonian transition, Argentina)

“…According to the nature of the sample (secondary multiple burials), in the case where bone elements have no anatomical correspondence with each other, the skull and jaws were used for age and sex determination. The morphological characteristics used to determine sex were the nuchal or occipital crest, the supraorbital margin, the arcus supercilliaris, the glabella, the mastoid process, and the development and strength of the mental eminence (Bass, 1995;Buikstra and Ubelaker, 1994;Steele and Bramblett, 1988;Walrath et al, 2004;White and Folkens, 2000). The results were grouped into three categories: probable male, probable female, and undetermined (Buikstra and Ubelaker, 1994).…”