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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AB</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Archaeologia Baltica</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1392-5520</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1392-5520</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">12_088-094_MILIAUSKIENE_JANKAUSKAS</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Article</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Dental wear patterns in Lithuanian and Latvian paleoanthropological samples</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Miliauskienė</surname>
            <given-names>Žydrūnė</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:zydrune.miliauskiene@mf.vu.lt">zydrune.miliauskiene@mf.vu.lt</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_AB_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AB_aff_000">Vilnius University</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Jankauskas</surname>
            <given-names>Rimantas</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:rimantas.jankauskas@mf.vu.lt">rimantas.jankauskas@mf.vu.lt</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_AB_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AB_aff_001">Vilnius University</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>12</volume>
      <fpage>88</fpage>
      <lpage>94</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>25</day>
        <month>11</month>
        <year>2009</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>25</day>
        <month>11</month>
        <year>2009</year>
      </pub-date>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>15</day>
          <month>05</month>
          <year>2008</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>10</day>
          <month>08</month>
          <year>2008</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>10</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2009</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Klaipėda University</copyright-holder>
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      <abstract>
        <p>Numerous researchers have stressed significance of tooth wear scoring for evaluation of earlier nutrition patterns and cultural practices. The aim of this study was to evaluate dental occlusal wear in several representative samples. The hypothesis tested was if transition from foraging subsistence to agriculture and later social stratification indeed was reflected by dental wear changes. According to results, the remarkable changes in nutrition patterns in the Baltic region occurred only in the Iron Age, which does not correspond with “classical” Neolithization model. The next substantial change in dental wear patterns is connected with increased social stratification in Late Medieval period.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>dental wear</kwd>
        <kwd>nutrition</kwd>
        <kwd>hunter-gatherers</kwd>
        <kwd>agriculture</kwd>
        <kwd>social stratification</kwd>
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