Diachronic changes in dental health of Bronze Age rural populations from Nahal Refaim, Israel

IF 1.1 3区历史学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI:10.1002/oa.3319

Eva Chocholova, Patricia Smith, Emmanuel Eisenberg, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Eva Drozdova

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We present the results of a study of dental pathology (specifically dental wear, caries, dental calculus, and enamel hypoplasia) carried out on 1108 teeth and empty alveoli of Bronze Age human populations that inhabited the rural settlement of Nahal Refaim, on the outskirts of the city of Jerusalem. The remains derive from a tomb complex that spans three phases of the period; Intermediate Bronze Age and the Middle Bronze Age I and Middle Bronze Age II village that replaced them (ca. 2500–1550 BC).

Dental pathology can reflect diet and therefore offers a unique insight into the lifeways of past populations. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which the dental health of this rural population was influenced by the far-reaching socioeconomic changes associated with the regional shift to urbanism by the Middle Bronze Age II. Although constrained by small sample sizes, we found that the pattern of dental pathology varied in a nonlinear fashion over time and discuss the factors that may have attributed to this variation.

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以色列纳哈勒法伊姆青铜时代农村人口牙齿健康的异时空变化

我们介绍了对居住在耶路撒冷市郊纳哈勒-雷法姆（Nahal Refaim）农村定居点的青铜时代人类的 1108 颗牙齿和空泡进行牙科病理学（特别是牙齿磨损、龋齿、牙结石和釉质发育不全）研究的结果。这些遗骸来自一个跨越三个时期的墓葬群：青铜时代中期、青铜时代中期 I 和青铜时代中期 II 村庄（约公元前 2500-1550 年）。这项研究的目的是调查这一农村人口的牙齿健康在多大程度上受到青铜时代中期向城市化转变所带来的深远社会经济变化的影响。虽然受样本量较小的限制，但我们发现牙齿病变的模式随着时间的推移呈非线性变化，并讨论了可能导致这种变化的因素。

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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology Multiple-

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2.40

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10.00%

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105

期刊介绍： The aim of the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology is to provide a forum for the publication of papers dealing with all aspects of the study of human and animal bones from archaeological contexts. The journal will publish original papers dealing with human or animal bone research from any area of the world. It will also publish short papers which give important preliminary observations from work in progress and it will publish book reviews. All papers will be subject to peer review. The journal will be aimed principally towards all those with a professional interest in the study of human and animal bones. This includes archaeologists, anthropologists, human and animal bone specialists, palaeopathologists and medical historians.