Teeth are one of the most informative parts of a skeleton.
Teeth also make an important contribution to forensic anthropology, allowing an assessment of sex, age, and unique attributes of unknown individuals. They will also become aquainted with the dental variation seen within modern human populations as well as the major stages in the evolution of the dentition, with particular focus on primate and human dental evolution. Students will be exposed to the various techniques used by physical anthropologists in the analysis of fossil and recent dental remains. Cambridge University Press. Cell phones and pagers and watch alarms should be turned off prior to class.