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Is it health or the burial environment: differentiating between hypomineralised and post-mortem stained enamel in an archaeological context.

Developmental enamel defects are often used as indicators of general health in past archaeological populations. However, it can be difficult to macroscopically distinguish subtle hypomineralised opacities from post-mortem staining, unrelated to developmental defects. To overcome this difficulty, we...

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Main Authors: Samantha McKay, Rami Farah, Jonathan M Broadbent, Nancy Tayles, Sian E Halcrow
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3667180?pdf=render
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