2019

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Rocznik: 2019 | Tom: 168 | Numer: suppl. 68

artykuł naukowy

angielski

EN Medieval Poland (10th-15th c. A.D.) was characterized by long term sociopolitical transformation that drew culturally diverse immigrants across Europe and Asia. Historical, archaeological, and bioarchaeological evidence indicate an increase in craft specialization and interregional trade. This led to an increase in trade and market economy which drew people from rural into urbanized areas. Previous scholars have used cranial data to examine biological distance between medieval populations. However, the use of dental morphology to investigate geographic patterns in biological distance has been underutilized. This project investigates dental morphological variation in relation to geographic distance from various medieval skeletal samples. To investigate population variation, we recorded the presence and absence of dental nonmetric traits using the dental morphological trait scoring system now referred to as the Turner-Scott method. Thirty-three nonmetric traits were scored on two-hundred individuals from five medieval sites. Medieval population affinities were compared using C.A.B. Smith’s Mean Measure of Divergence (MMD). The MMD results demonstrate that Stręgoborzyce, Gubin, and Pawłow are more similar to each other than to Płonsk and Sandomierz. Phenotypic and geographic distances were then compared using the Mantel and partial-Mantel matrix correlation test. Results of the Mantel and partial-Mantel tests indicate that dental morphological variation is significantly correlated (r=0.787397; p-value=0.027) with geographic distance. These preliminary results highlight phenotypic similarity is associated with geographic proximity and conforms to a model of isolation by geographic distance. We conclude that the integration of dental data will provide valuable insight in medieval Poland where extensive interdisciplinary evidence is available for comparison.

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https://www.academia.edu/37949179/Tooth_be_told_A_preliminary_investigation_of_dental_morphological_variation_among_medieval_Polish_populations

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