PATOLOGÍAS BUCALES EN CRÁNEOS HUMANOS DEL NORESTE DE PATAGONIA: TENDENCIAS TEMPORALES EN LA DIETA Y ESTADO DE SALUD DE LAS POBLACIONES DEL HOLOCENO-TARDÍO DEL VALLE INFERIOR DEL RÍO NEGRO

Resumen

The aim of this paper is to contribute, from a bioarchaeological perspective, to the discussion about the model of economic intensification and diet broadening of hunter-gatherer populations in northeastern Patagonia previously proposed by different authors. The underlying presuposition is that such process would have detectable effects in the intra-and interpopulational distribution of health and oral function indicators. To test this proposition, we analyzed temporal trends in the prevalence of different dental and *