Open AccessContextualizing Buccal Dental Microwear Variations During the Byzantine Period in Jordan
Author(s) -
Mohammad Alrousan,
Ali Khwaileh,
Abdulla Al-Shorman
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
dental anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2769-822X
pISSN - 1096-9411
DOI - 10.26575/daj.v28i3.335
Subject(s) - byzantine architecture , period (music) , buccal administration , geography , subsistence agriculture , archaeology , dentistry , art , medicine , agriculture , aesthetics
This study scanned 14 buccal surfaces of teeth casts microscopically from the Byzantine sites of Yajuz and Sa'ad in Jordan, and 7 samples from the Natufian site of El Wad in Palestine for the purpose of studying buccal microwear. The results show no differences in the pattern of dental microwear between the two byzantine sites, while a difference was existed when these sites com-pared to El Wad. The results indicate that subsistence economy did not trigger buccal microwear but cultural development. Although the economies during the Byzantine period were diversified, technological adaptation diffused into region, which eased food accession and procession.