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A Preliminary Evaluation of Tooth Tartar among the Preconquest Maya of the Tayasal Area, El Peten, Guatemala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

David Trice Evans
David Trice Evans*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
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Abstract

A sample of 48 burials from the Tayasal Peninsula area, El Peten, Guatemala, is used to tentatively suggest a dietary shift sometime around Middle Classic times among the Maya. This conclusion is reached through an observed variation in the amount of calculus, or tooth tartar, deposited through time.

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American Antiquity , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , October 1973 , pp. 489 - 493
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1973

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