Australian Tooth-Size Clines and the Death of a Stereotype [and Comments and Reply]
| Autor: | W. W. Howells, C. Loring Brace, Edward F. Harris, Todd Brown, Christy G. Turner, Richard T. Koritzer, A. Vincent Lombardi, Michael Pietrusewsky, Trinette S. Constandse-Westermann, Christopher Meiklejohn, Edward E. Hunt, Grant Townsend, C. B. Preston, R. H. Roydhouse, John Huizinga, L. E. St. Hoyme |
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| Rok vydání: | 1980 |
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| Zdroj: | Current Anthropology. 21:141-164 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5382 0011-3204 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/202426 |
| Popis: | Tooth size in Australia ran from a minimum in the Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland to a maximum in the Murray Basin. The available data suggest that the earliest Australians possessed large jaws and teeth and that subsequently genes for smaller tooth size entered Australia from the northeast corner a model which is consistent with the evidence for the spread of a variety of cultural and technological items. While the evidence is tentative at best, it is consistent with the view that more developed food-preparation techniques had ocurred outside of Australia, allowing dental reduction to occur. The spread of these elements into Australia may be symbolized by the influx of the small-tool tradition early in the Holocene, and it may have been made possible by associated resource-utilization techniques that promote survival in areas previously sparsely utilized, such as the central desert and the coastal margins. This would account for the tooth-size gradient visible down the east coast and from Cape... |
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