Dental Microwear In Natufian Hunter-gatherers And Pre-pottery Neolithic Agriculturalists From Northern Isreal (british Archaeological Reports British Series)

The aim of this study is to infer dietary texture from dental microwear during the Natufian hunter-gatherer to pre-pottery Neolithic agricultural development in northern Israel. Microwear patterns were recorded from sixty skeletons form eight sites. Diet-microwear correlations were identified through univariate and multivariate statistical procedures. The study included an investigation into the relationship between microwear, the position of a molar along the tooth row, and location on molar facet 9. A microwear methodology was developed from these investigations. Dental pits were larger and scratches wider amongst the agriculturalists compared to the hunter-gatherers. It was inferred from this pattern that the agriculturalists consumed a harder diet and this was related to an archaeologically suggested change in food processing. Cover Copyright ABSTRACT CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 CHAPTER 8 REFERENCES APPENDIX 1 APPENDIX 2 Maps Patrick Mahoney. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 63-74).