Table of Contents

List of figures

Forward

Acknowledgements

Photo credits

1. Rationale: Why study dental morphology, and why use this book to do it?

2. 1.2 Problems collecting dental morphological data

   1.3 Dental morphological data are useful

   Hominin evolutionary relationships

   Worldwide patterns of variation

   Intra-regional variation

   Intra-cemetery relationships

   Individual level analyses

3. A note about the use of the words, "race" and "ancestry"
4. How to study dental morphology

5. 3.1 Data collection

   Scoring types

   Breakpoints

   Weighted frequencies

   3.2 Data analysis

   Biological distance

   Individual estimation of group membership

6. How to use this manual
7. Data collection pages
8. Manual pages
9. Root traits
10. Arch and tooth reference pages

8.1 Arches with directions

8.2 Individual tooth directions/cusp names

8.3 Deciduous arches (teeth to avoid)

9. Individual tooth directions/cusp names

10. Deciduous arches

About the Author

Heather J.H. Edgar is Curator of Human Osteology for the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, and Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, USA. Her research focuses on the ways in which historical events and cultural trends shape the biology of populations, especially in the U.S. and Mexico.