Journal of Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences

Wancho have a few reasons of their own. They consider black teeth beautiful. Some tribes feel what is the difference between human being and animals? Animals also have white teeth and the human beings also have the white teeth! So, to differentiate one’s self from animals, it is believed they started colouring their teeth black. Apart from these, teeth are also coloured to protect them from decaying. The life of each tooth is thus increased if coloured black, as the paint protects the tooth from infections and decays. Read more about this article: https://lupinepublishers.com/anthropological-and-archaeological-sciences/fulltext/the-black-teeth-of-wancho.ID.000143.php   Read more Lupine Publishers Google Scholar Articles: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=w-I2_wEAAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&citation_for_view=w-I2_wEAAAAJ:JQOojiI6XY0C  

Among the pending issues in the archeology of the lowlands of the province of Tucumán, the construction of chronologies based on absolute dates stands out, which allows the elaboration of more reliable Pre-Hispanic occupation sequences to have a more precise temporal control of local social developments. Despite having registered dozens of archaeological sites in these jungle and forest environments, most of them do not have absolute dates. One of the cases that manifest this situation is the archaeological record of the eastern foothills of the Sierra San Javier, located in the central portion of the Tucuman pedemontana area. After decades of research [1-4] there were still no absolute dates in this sector. One of the main reasons can be attributed to the fact that most of the studies were short-term and with little funding - carried out by students of the Career of Archeology at the National University of Tucumán in the framework of final professorship or thesis-, which w...