Global Distribution of Marginal Accessory Tubercles of the Maxillary Premolars
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The present study assesses the global distribution of marginal accessory tubercles of the maxillary premolars. This trait, despite constituting one of the variables standardized by Turner and colleagues (1991), has received little attention in morphological studies. Frequencies were calculated from data sheets collected by Christy G. Turner II for mesial, distal, and mesial + distal grades. Different geographic patterns were identified for both types of expression on the upper premolars. The patterned geographic distribution of these traits indicates their utility in biodistance investigations. In addition, the distinction between mesial and distal accessory tubercles specified by Scott and Irish (2017) is recommended, as these two traits exhibit different geographic patterns.
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Powell, J. F. (1993). Dental evidence for the peopling of the New World: Some methodological considerations. Human Biology, 65, 799-815.
Reyes-Centeno, H., Rathmann, H., Hanihara, T., Harvati, K. (2017). Testing modern human Out-of-Africa dispersal models using dental nonmetric data. Current Anthropology, 58, S406-S417.
Scott, G. R., & Irish J. D. (2017). Tooth Crown and Root Morphology: The Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Scott, G. R., & Schomberg, R. (2016). A baffling convergence: Tooth crown and root traits in Europe and New Guinea. In: M. A. Pilloud & J. T. Hefner (Eds.), Biological Distance Analysis: Forensic and Bioarchaeological Perspectives. (pp. 411-424). Amsterdam: Academic Press.
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Scott, G. R., & Turner, C. G., II. (2008). The physical anthropological intermediacy problem of Na-Dené/Greater Northwest Coast Indians. Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 6, 57-68.
Scott, G. R., Turner, C. G. II, Townsend, G. C., & Martinón-Torres M. (2018). The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth: Dental Morphology and Its Variation in Recent and Fossil Homo sapiens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Turner, C. G., II. (1971). Three-rooted mandibular first permanent molars and the question of American Indian origins. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 34, 229-241.
Turner, C. G., II. (1985). Dental evidence for the peopling of the Americas. National Geographic Society Research Reports, 19, 573-596.
Turner, C. G. II. (1987). Late Pleistocene and Holocene population history of East Asia based on dental variation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 73, 305-321.
Turner, C. G. II, Nichol, C. R., & Scott, G. R. (1991). Scoring procedures for key morphological traits of the permanent dentition: The Arizona State University dental anthropology system. In M. A. Kelley & C. S. Larsen. (Eds.), Advances in Dental Anthropology. (pp. 13-31). New York: Wiley-Liss.
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