Claudia Cunha

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Has anyone ever seen or published the inhumation of human bones in an inverted urn in the Prehistory of the Amazonian region?

Some time ago I worked on a secondary funerary context from the Amazonian region in which the human remains were deposited under a funerary pot instead of inside it (very frequent practice). The...

10 January 2016 3,866 1 View

Does anyone have suggestions on bibliographic references for tooth modifications in the Amazon, South Central America and Caribbean regions?

Tooth modifications (mutilations, incrustation, dying, ablation) are employed by cultures around the world. I would be interested in reading on occurrences specifically in South Central America...

07 November 2015 4,207 0 View

What is the importance of aesthetic modifications of teeth in contemporary societies?

Aesthetics play an important social role on any society. Nowadays with broader access to information and immediate dissemination of trends, how are tooth modification trends being shaped? What are...

06 November 2015 2,665 7 View

Could anyone please suggest bibliographic references on tools made of human bones?

Some colleagues and I have been working on a prehistoric tool made of a long bone diaphysis about to be published. So far we have found other published cases worldwide, but references are never...

23 September 2015 7,955 20 View

Does anyone know of works on discrete dental morphology of Brazilian archaeological samples?

Besides Turner's 1980's work on the dental morphology of archaeological series, I've found very little: Huffman's, Bartolomucci (LBG)'s and Neves & Powell's work. Does anyone know of anything...

19 July 2015 3,639 4 View

Could anyone suggest bibliographic references for paleopathology of pre colonial (amerindian) populations in the amazonian region?

21 June 2015 7,300 5 View