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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The dental morphology of Pima Indians
Contributor:
Scott, G. Richard;
Potter, Rosario H. Yap;
Noss, John F.;
Dahlberg, Albert A.;
Dahlberg, Thelma
Published:
Wiley, 1983
Published in:
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 61 (1983) 1, Seite 13-31
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1002/ajpa.1330610103
ISSN:
0002-9483;
1096-8644
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
AbstractFourteen morphologic crown traits were observed in a sample of 1528 Pima Indians of south‐central Arizona. Pima dentitions are characterized by high frequencies of shoveling, incisor winging, the hypocone, the lower canine distal accessory ridge, cusp 6, and the protostylid. They exhibit low frequencies of the metaconule and lower premolar multiple lingual cusps and moderate frequencies of the canine tubercle, Carabelli's trait, cusp 7, and lower second molars with four cusps and X groove patterns. When Pima crown trait frequencies were compared to those of 13 Southwest Indian samples, their closest affinities were to other Uto‐Aztecan groups, the Papago and Hopi. The Pima are most divergent from Athapaskans and are also clearly removed from Yuman speaking groups and the Zuni. In general, the pattern of dental morphologic variation in the Southwest corresponds closely to linguistic divisions.