Abstract

TORIBIO SUAREZ¹, Luis R  and  RIVERO DE LA CALLE², Manuel. Método para la estimación del número de enterramiento en un sitio funerario. Rev Cubana Estomatol [online]. 1996, vol.33, n.2, pp. 53-59. ISSN 1561-297X.

The estimation of the number of individuals buried in a funerary site constitutes one of the most problemic aspects of archaelogy. The information provided by the teeth, taking into account that they are the best preserved structures of the skeletal material collected, is used in this work through the analysis of the values of variability and asymetry of odontoscopic aspects such as Carabelli's tubercule in M1, upper shovel-shaped incisors, development of hypocone in M 1, and the cusp pattern in M 1, and odontometric data. Both analysis were made for the permanent identification of a sample made up by students classified as caucasoids. A step-by step estimation method is developved fixing the levels of odontoscopic and odontometirc confidence, which in addition considers age estimations of all specimens found in the funerary site.

Keywords : BURIAL; FORENSIC DENTISTRY; MORTUARY PRACTICE; ODONTOMETRY; ARCHAELOGY.