Human Tooth Crown and Root Morphology

This guide to scoring crown and root traits in human dentitions substantially builds on a seminal 1991 work by Turner, Nichol, and Scott. It provides detailed descriptions and multiple illustrations of each crown and root trait to help guide researchers to make consistent observations on trait expression, greatly reducing observer error. The book also reflects exciting new developments driven by technology that have significant ramifications for dental anthropology, particularly the recent development of a web-based application that computes the probability that an individual belongs to a particular genogeographic grouping based on combinations of crown and root traits; as such, the utility of these variables is expanded to forensic anthropology. This book is ideal for researchers and graduate students in the fields of dental, physical, and forensic anthropology and will serve as a methodological guide for many years to come.

Author: G. Richard Scott, Joel D. Irish
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/16/2017
Pages: 342
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.91h x 7.53w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9781107480735
ISBN10: 1107480736
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Physical
- Medical | Dentistry | General