Resumen de Aboriginal Dental Mutilation in Pre-Colonial Australia
Dental modification is a cultural based display of personal adornment and social status with a long history, widely practiced. Among Australian Aboriginal cultures dental modification appears to have been limited to exarticulation. Although it is not known if the practice was introduced to Australian or arose in isolation the archaeological record hints at Australian contexts that predate those elsewhere. Exarticulation, along with many aspects of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, was abandoned áfter European colonization.
