An anthropological study on the teeth of the native peoples and Russian settlers in the 16th to 19th century West Siberia

• Main Author: 이혜진
• Other Authors: 신동훈, Hyejin Lee, 의과대학 의학과, 해부학
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 서울대학교 대학원 2019
• Subjects: West Siberia; Dental caries; Dental calculus; Antemortem tooth loss; Tooth wear; Siberian native; 610; khanty; Selkup; Siberia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10371/162277; http://dcollection.snu.ac.kr/common/orgView/000000158226

학위논문(박사)--서울대학교 대학원 :의과대학 의학과,2019. 8. 신동훈. Introduction: Teeth are frequently analyzed and recorded in bioarchaeological and paleopathological research because they are highly mineralized, making them more resistant to taphonomic alterations. With the considerable numbers of teeth available in the archaeological evidence, dental status analysis has proved to be a useful tool in the assessment of health and diet of people in the past. In this study, dental remains from the two different populations having lived in West Siberia are examined in order to verify the differences of oral health status associated with distinct subsistence patterns: hunting and gathering and agriculture. Analyses focusing on the prevalence and severity of dental health standards, both within and among the groups of Siberian natives and Russian settlers, therefore test its possible differentials which may reflect the varying effectiveness of disparate adaptive systems. Methods: Siberian natives (n=75) exhumed from Khanty, Nenet, Selkup and Tatar graves along with Russian settler skeletons (n = 79) from Izyuk were examined in this study. General dental analysis of dental wear, Antemortem tooth loss (AMTL), calculus and caries were used to assess the dental health status and possible dietary patterns of individuals who represented hunter-gatherers (Siberian natives) and agriculturalists (Russian settlers) in the 16th to 19th century West Siberia. All above-mentioned pathologies were documented according to the widely used standard methodology. The resulting statistical inferences were tested using package R. Results: The Russian settlers showed a higher degree of dental wear (5.39) than did the Siberians natives (4.76) (t-test, p=0.0175). On the contrary, the prevalence of calculus deposition by teeth was significantly higher in Russian settlers (22.6%) than Siberian natives (10.8%). The agriculturalist Russian settlers also showed a significantly higher prevalence of dental caries (11.88%) than did the non-agriculturalist indigenous ...