Populações pré-históricas: limites e abrangências por meio das patologias dentárias

Abstract

The dental pathologies’ studies serves for knowledge attainment about a nation’s way of life, pre-historical or historical. Through teethes we can take out many archeological information, cause those organs withstand the time and the action of several factors, beyond register and evidence them as vestiges. The purpose of this university study conclusion task is to study the limits and reaches across dental-pathological of four pre-historical occupations: the Sítio Justino (A, B and C) and the São José II, being our display about a total of thirty-seven dental arch. We applied Bioarcheological methods on those samples. The Sítio São José II is located in the local authority of Delmiro Gouveia (AL), where were found, at time of its excavation, thirty skeletons. From the Sítio Justino, wich is located in Canindé de São Francisco (SE), were rescue a hundred and seventy skeletons. Nowadays the osteological collection of those two places is above the Archeological Meuseum of Xingó guardianship (MAX). The achieved analysis focused it self in the caries injuries, dental abrasions, hypoplasia presence, anodontia, above numeral teethes, abscesses and vital lost.