期刊名称：Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica : Natural Sciences in Archaeology
印刷版ISSN：1804-848X
出版年度：2016
卷号：VII
期号：1
页码：33-54
出版社：Archaeological Centre Olomouc
摘要：In this study, 97 individuals from Prague-Zličín, in central Bohemia, Czech Republic, were scoredfor basic dental features, including dental caries, prevalence of dental enamel hypoplasia (DEH), anddental wear patterns, in order to discover basic characteristics of their diet, and the extent of nonspecificstressors (i.e. indicators of metabolic and nutritional disruptions) during the Migration Period(5th century AD). The sample is comprised of 18 subadults (0–14 year-old) and 79 adult individualsover 15 years, with a total number of 1129 permanent and 111 deciduous teeth.Values of caries intensity were 21.0 and its frequency 59.5. Higher values of caries intensity werefound in males (24.0) than in the female population (21.3). The most frequent type of dental caries wasfound in the mesial and distal facets of the cemento-enamel junction and smooth surfaces of the crown(64.1%), which may be connected with deteriorated oral hygiene in this series. The 9.8% of dentalcaries located on the occlusal surface of the crown can be interpreted, together with the proven lowdental wear, as the existence of a softer diet during this Migration period than in the former Neolithicperiod.DEH was present at a high frequency (32.2% of all examined individuals), but nearly all of theserecords of past stressors in childhood have only short-term acute forms in the way of lines or grooves.Only one single case provided evidence for a chronic form of DEH. The timing of linear enamelhypoplasia (LEH) studied in 13 individuals provides an assessment of the occurrence and frequency ofage when LEH formed. Overall anthropological analysis suggests a relative high number of indicatorsof environmental stressors related to the prevalence of dental caries, pre-mortem tooth loss and theprevalence scores of DEH.
