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Dental Caries and Early Ecuadorian Agriculture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Christy G. Turner II
Christy G. Turner II*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe. AZ 85281
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Abstract

Teeth of Vildivia Period C Indians lack caries, a fact inconsistent with suggestions for intensive agriculture at this time (ca. 2000 B.C.) in coastal Ecuador.

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American Antiquity , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , October 1978 , pp. 694 - 697
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1978

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