- In surprise, tooth decay afflicts hunter-gatherers | Science
Hadza dental decay is a blow to received wisdom in anthropology: the belief that prehistoric hunter-gatherers, subsisting on meat and wild plants, rarely had cavities Teeth supposedly began rotting only when such societies made the transition to agriculture and adopted a diet rich in sugar and starch from grains (Science, 25 May 2012, p 973)
- Why Cavemen Needed No Braces - Stanford University Press Blog
Our hunter-gatherer ancestors had spacious jaws, with a continuous smoothly curved arch of teeth in each jaw, including third molars (“wisdom teeth”) at the back ends of the arches
- Ancient hunter-gatherers had rotten teeth - New Scientist
Ancient hunter-gatherers may have sustained themselves by eating lots of nuts and other starchy foods, but they paid a high price: rotten teeth Scientists have long thought that tooth decay only
- Starchy food led to rotten teeth in ancient hunter-gatherers
Their research shows widespread tooth decay occurred in a hunter-gathering society in Morocco several thousand years before the dawn of agriculture The research team analysed 52 sets of adult teeth from hunter-gatherer skeletons found in Taforalt in Morocco, dating between 15,000 and 13,700 years ago
- Tooth decay first ravaged human society 15,000 years ago
Hunter-gatherer societies tended to have much lower tooth decay rates In the Moroccan cave known as Grotte des Pigeons, life was good some 15,000 years ago
- Why were ancient teeth healthier than ours?
It has long been recognised that the skulls of our hunter-gatherer forebears possessed much healthier teeth and dental structure than those of the agriculturalists that followed The recent discovery that dental plaque contains DNA from ancient oral microbes is providing new evidence about the dietary patterns responsible for these changes
- Carb-loading rotted ancient hunter-gatherers teeth, study says
While rare to find high-levels of tooth decay in hunter-gatherer populations, rotten teeth have also been observed in hunter-gatherer groups from southern Texas and northern Mexico, noted Peter
- Hunter-gatherers’ dental “harmony” disrupted by diet shift
Hunter-gatherers had almost no malocclusion and dental crowding, and the condition first became common among the world’s earliest farmers some 12,000 years ago in Southwest Asia, according to findings published (04 Feb 2015) in the journal PLOS ONE By analysing the lower jaws and teeth crown dimensions of 292 archaeological skeletons from the Levant, Anatolia and Europe, from between 28,000
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