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- Title
DENTAL ENAMEL HYPOPLASIA IN THE PADA CEMETERY (12TH-13TH CC.) POPULATION IN NORTH-EAST ESTONIA.
- Authors
Limbo, Jana
- Abstract
Linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) is one of the unspecific stress indicators, which is widely used for showing childhood stress. The current work observes the occurrence of the linear hypoplasia in the group of individuals from the Pada cemetery. The Pada cemetery has the best-preserved and most numerable skeleton series from the Late Iron Age period in Estonia. Observations included 80 individuals with the age above 15 years (32 females and 48 males) and 37 infants over 7 years (13 girls and 24 boys). All the individuals included in study had observable permanent maxillary central incisors or permanent lower canines, which are the most common hypoplastic teeth. The e-mail defects were registered -- linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) which could be seen with the naked eye. Severity and the age of formation of all the observed stress lines were registered. LEH was registered in different age classes in men and women. There were no statistically significant differences in the occurrences of LEH between infants and over 15-year individuals. 77.8% of all the observed individuals had LEH. Men showed LEH more often and their hypoplasia was more severe than in women. Especially big was the difference between men and women in the adultus age group and this difference was statistically significant. Males had the occurrence of LEH quite similar in all the observed age groups. But females had LEH more frequently in infantile than in individuals over 15 years. The frequency of LEH in the female adultus age group was lowest. The most common age of the formation of the first hypoplasia was in both men and women 2.5 years, the second peak frequency of the formation of the first LEH was 4 years in males and 4.5 years in females. The number of the individuals affected with LEH in certain age was found. Most of the observed individuals had LEH that formed between 5-6 years of life.
- Subjects
ESTONIA; TEETH abnormalities; DENTAL enamel; STRESS in children; IRON Age; PHYSICAL anthropology
- Publication
Papers on Anthropology, 2006, Vol 15, p114
- ISSN
1406-0140
- Publication type
Article