The morphological variability of dental traits among the Knoviz population

Abstract

Czech lands during the late period of the Bronze Age. We focused primarly on the incidence of traits relating to tooth crown morphology.

It is assumed that the genetic foundation of such traits and their incidence is population specific. Neither side asymmetry nor statistically significant sexual differences in the incidence of dental morphological traits were verified.

The number of roots at the first premolars forms an exception, in which most male first premolars had two roots (67% of males) and female first premolars usually had only one root (87% of females).

Keywords

• Bronze Age population in the Central Europe
• Knoviz culture
• dental morphological traits
• biological variability