This research project looked at the dental health of Late Intermediate Period skeletons from
the Wari capital to assess their consumption patterns. A high rate of dental disease coupled …

Differences in dental health of prehistoric human groups are commonly attributed to specific
subsistence practices, whereby food foragers generally have a lower incidence of dental …

Social organization influences individual well-being and overall community health, which
may lead to health disparities that manifest in teeth. The research in this thesis explores …

The expansion of states and empires affects more than politics and power relations across a
broad area. This process also restructures human/environment interaction, bringing …

Indicators of oral health were recorded in a sample of 200 Formative period (1500 BC–AD
500) skeletons from archaeological sites located in the Lower Azapa Valley of northwest …

The Moche of north coastal Perú were among the earliest New World societies to develop
state socio-political organization. The Moche State (AD 200-800) was a centralized …

This targeted review of oral paleopathology in the Central Andes explores research that
focuses on a set of interrelated, multifactorial processes: dental caries, macrowear, alveolar …

The objective of this research is to determine the dietary relevance of the plants consumed
by the inhabitants of Aspero, an urban center on the coast of the Supe Valley, Peru. For this …

This research uses a predictive model based on dental health to test the hypothesis that
maize dependence gradually increased among human groups in the Sonoran Desert over …

Abstract Between approximately 500–1000 CE, much of what is now Peru was integrated
into the Wari Empire, centered on the archaeological site of Huari in the Peruvian highlands …