Original scientific paper
Dental modification on the skull found during basement construction at Balai Pemuda building, Indonesia
Yusuf Bilal Abdillah
; Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia
Biandro Wisnuyana
Bayoghanta Maulana Mahardika
Suhendra Bagaskara Adhinugroho
Thoriq Firdaus
Delta Bayu Murti
Toetik Koesbardiati
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Abstract
Two skulls have been found during basement construction of Balai Pemuda Building in the depth of 6-7 meters from the ground. Those skulls have been coded as skull 16089 and 16090. The maxillary teeth of skull 16090 was almost in complete formation and there was an evidence of dental modification similar to dental modification found in Java. To identify the pattern of dental modification, macroscopic observation is needed. Also, the comparative study will be used to find the link between the pattern of dental modifications. The result is that the pattern of dental modification on the skull 160690 is hexagon-like shaped. The “hexagon-like” pattern is very similar to what was found in Kedaton Temple and Upas Well which had diamond-like pattern.
Keywords
Dental modification; skull; Balai Pemuda; Java; Indonesia
Hrčak ID:
214439
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2018.
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