Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
Institute of the problems of Northern development, SB RAS
Slepchenko S.M., e-mail: s_slepchenko@list.ru
This paper examines caries prevalence in Tobolsk group of Siberian Tatars who left the Ostrov-nye Yurty burial ground (19th – early 20th centuries). The observed caries frequency and the caries rate adjusted using proportional correction factor (PCF) were 3.3% and 11.6%, respectively. The high value of the latter one points to a large caries preva-lence in the population under study. Estimates of PCF calculated separately for each sex evidences a higher rate among males than in females (14.3% and 7.8% respectively). I also found that the rate the PCF adjusted caries rate was higher in the «matures» age category both in male and female groups than in younger age categories. Caries fre-quencies were greater on posterior teeth that on the anterior ones in all age groups of both. Caries frequency in the population under study was greater than that hunting and fishing societies of West Siberia, it is similar to that in the Russian population of the Urals (Verkhoturie, Kamensk-Uralsk, Revda), and close to that in the contemporaneity Selkup group of Vargananzhino and Ust-Balyk. There-fore, I may infer that there existed similar food patterns in all aforementioned groups. The author recommends use of PCF, which accounts for caries on teeth lost antemortem as well as postmortem, hence generating a more differentiated and realistic estimates about caries frequency in past populations.
paleoanthropology, dental pathology, caries, Siberian Tatars, food patterns, proportional correction factor
Цит.: Slepchenko S.M. Caries prevalence in Tobolsk group of Siberian Tatars according to the data from the Ostrovnye Yurty burial ground in 19th – early 20th centuries // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2015; 4/2015; с. 73-82
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