Gold work, filing and blackened teeth dental modifications in Luzon

Different forms of dental modifications used to be a widespread cultural expression across much of Luzon (Philippines). Gold decorations on teeth appear in the archaeological record around the fourteenth century CE, and later Spanish documents confirm gold pegging, but also teeth filing as well as t...

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Published in:	Cordillera Review : Journal of Philippine Culture and Society Vol. II, no. 2 (Sep. 2010), 3-42
Main Author:	Zumbroich, Thomas J.
Other Authors:	Salvador-Amores, Analyn Ikin V.
Resource Type:	Article
Published:	2010
Subjects:	Teeth > blackening Teeth > Mutilation > Philippines Dental anthropology