Hunter-gatherer diet caused tooth decay

Past Horizons ^ | Tuesday, January 7, 2014 | Natural History Museum

[SunkenCiv]

Severe, and painful, tooth decay in a young adult hunter-gatherer from Taforalt, Morocco. A central incisor was probably pulled out for cultural reasons © Isabelle De Groote.

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

I thought this one was going to be postworthy, but it’s just another advocacy for surrendering sovereignty to the world despotate.

The Ancient Human Hunter Changed the World
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/12012013/article/the-ancient-human-hunter-changed-the-world

[cripplecreek]

I’m guessing a total lack of dental hygiene might have played a part as well.

[JimSEA]

Plus, it all depends on what you are hunting and gathering. Seems obvious.

[llevrok]

gravel and grit in their food. Using a stone mortar and pestle were big contributors, if I recall my Anthro 101

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

“Cavity creeps! We make holes in the teeth!”

[Flag_This]

Not eating could have prevented this.

[Jack Hydrazine]

If only their streams and lakes had been flouridated!

[EEGator]

[central_va]

Plus, it all depends on what you are hunting and gathering.

Skittles and Mountain Dew?

[Pharmboy]

[ClearCase_guy]

[Flag_This]

"If only their streams and lakes had been flouridated!"

But what about our P.O.E.? Gen. Jack D. Ripper is gravely concerned.

[Hot Tabasco]

Dental disease was thought to have originated with the introduction of farming and changes in food processing around 10,000 years ago.

So, prior to that nobody suffered from tooth decay???????

As for the hunters and gatherers, they suffered tooth decay because they didn't brush regularly after every meal nor did they floss..........

NO, I'm not a dentist but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.........

[Tax-chick]

Wow, how unsurprising!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Skeletons at Taforalt reveal that most people practiced tooth evulsion, whereby one or two healthy incisors were deliberately removed in late childhood or early adulthood.

Is this style making a comeback?

[Calvin Locke]

This has been showing up in vegan/vegetarian groups.

There's more in play beyond a possible ADA promotion of the obvious...

[freekitty]

Somehow, I believe that was it.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Good guess I’d think.