Dental non-metric traits in a Pre-Conquest sample from Tastil region in Argentina, South America.

RODRIGUEZ-FLOREZ, C.D., BOLLINI, G.A., COLANTONIO, S.E.

Bulletin Int. Assoc. Paleodont.

International Association for Paleodontology

Lugar: Zagreb; Año: 2008 p. 19 - 25

1846-6273

Reconstruction of biological relationships between ancient human groups using teethis an important research problem for South American bioarcheologist. The presentstudy was carried out with a Tastil human pre-conquest sample from Northwest ofArgentina, with the aim of exploring the dental morphology patterns in this population.The sample of this study is composed by 19 skulls with partial dentitions from SantaRosa de Tastil ruins (Salta Province, Argentina). 12 dental non-mtetric traits wererecorded using the ASU Dental Anthropology System. Percentages >70% was notfound. Values between 0,1 and 70% was found in 12 traits of upper dentition only. Inspite of the frequencies finding in Tastil sample can be influences by a low samplesize, we can conclude that shovel shape of the incisors in the population of Tastilsuggest a Mongoloid origin.