Dental Anthropology
Dental Anthropology
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The study of teeth from bioarchaeological contexts. Our work tends to focus on dental macrowear, microwear, and metrics. Dr. Schmidt is an editor emeritus of the Dental Anthropology Journal.
Dental metrics is the measuring of tooth diameters; it also includes measuring dental surfaces three-dimensionally. Dental measurements help us understand how tooth sizes have changed over time.
Dental Macrowear
Dental Macrowear
We address macrowear (gross occlusal tooth wear) in order to contextualize microwear. Macrowear indicates long-term tooth use and indicates a person's age.
Relevant Scholarship
Relevant Scholarship
Schmidt CW, Quataert R, Zalzala F, D’Anastasio R. (2017). Taphonomy of Teeth. In, Taphonomy of Human Remains: Forensic Analysis of the Dead and Depositional Environment (E.M.J. Schotsmans, N. Márquez‐Grant & S. Forbes, editors). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
A Preliminary Study of Mandibular M1 Through M3 Cusp Apex Placement: Implications for Dental Reduction (with MS student Brenda Detty)
Dental metrics of the Dunning Cemetery population (with current MS student Mackenzie Vermillion)
Dental metrics of the Bethel Cemetery (with MS student Megan Hoffman)
Dental macrowear and pathology in pre-colonial sites from Indiana
A review of dental aging techniques
Dental macrowear in an Archaic woman who had significant skeletal pathology
Dental Evidence for A Maize-Supplemented Diet During the Late Woodland in Indiana
Reconstructing The Diet of Kůlna 1 From the Moravian Karst (Czech Republic)
Correcting Overestimation When Determining Two‐Dimensional Occlusal Area in Human Molars
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