A valuable reference source, bringing together a variety of the most accomplished dental researchers.

Part I. Context: 1. Introduction Joel D. Irish and Greg C. Nelson; 2. History of dental anthropology G. Richard Scott and Christy G. Turner II; 3. Statistical applications in dental anthropology Edward F. Harris; Part II. Applications in Assessing Population Health: 4. Using Perikymata to estimate the duration of growth disruptions in fossil hominin teeth: issues of methodology and interpretation Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg; 5. Micro spatial distributions of lead and zinc in human deciduous tooth enamel Louise T. Humphrey, Teresa E. Jeffries, and M. Christopher Dean; 6. The current state of dental decay Simon Hillson; 7. Dental caries prevalence by sex in prehistory: magnitude and meaning John R. Lukacs and Linda M. Thompson; 8. Dental pathology prevalence and pervasiveness at Tepe Hissar: statistical utility for investigating inter-relationships between wealth, gender, and status Brian E. Hemphill; Part III. Applied Life and Population History: 9. Charting the chronology of developing dentitions Gary T. Schwartz and M. Christopher Dean; 10. Dental age revisited Helen M. Liversidge; 11. Primate dental topographic analysis and functional morphology Peter Ungar and Jonathan M. Bunn; 12. Forensic dental anthropology: issues and guidelines Christopher W. Schmidt; 13. Inter and intraspecific variation in pan tooth crown morphology: implications for neanderthal taxonomy Shara E. Bailey; 14. The quantitative genetic analysis of primate dental variation: history of the approach and prospects for the future Oliver T. Rizk, Sarah K. Amugongo, Michael C. Mahaney, and Leslea J. Hlusko; Part IV. Forefront of Technique: 15. Methods of ingestion and incisal designs Kalpana R. Agrawal, K. Y. Ang, Zhongquan Sui, Hugh T.W. Tan and Peter Lucas; 16. Dental reduction in late Pleistocene and early Holocene Hominids: alternative approaches to assessing tooth size Charles Fitzgerald and Simon Hillson; 17. Dental microwear analysis: historical perspectives and new approaches Peter S. Ungar, Robert S. Scott, Jessica R. Scott and Mark Teaford; 18. Virtual dentitions: touching the hidden evidence Roberto Macchiarelli, Luca Bondioli and Arnaud Mazurier.