Dental Anthropology (Jun 2012)

Hypotrophic Roots of the Upper Central Incisors –a Proposed New Discrete Dental Trait

  • Claudia Cunha,
  • Ana Maria Silva,
  • Joel Irish,
  • G. Richard Scott,
  • Tiago Tomé,
  • José Marquez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26575/daj.v25i1.54
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 1
pp. 8 – 14

Abstract

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This paper describes a newly defined nonmetric trait in the human dentition, i.e., Hypotrophic Roots of the Upper Central Incisors (HRUCI). Teeth presenting HRUCI are characterized by abnormally short roots whose crowns exhibit no apparent morphological alterations. The trait was observed in six samples from collective funerary sites in the Iberian Peninsula dated from the Late Neolithic to the Chalcolithic period.