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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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Autores principales: McKay, Samantha, Farah, Rami, Broadbent, Jonathan M., Tayles, Nancy, Halcrow, Sian E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3667180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23734206
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064573