| oral and physiological paleohealth in cold adapted peoples: northeast asia, hokkaido. | this paper examines variables useful in reconstructing oral (caries, antemortem tooth loss, alveolar defects) and physiological (cribra orbitalia, linear enamel hypoplasia) well-being in two bioarchaeological assemblages from hokkaido, japan: okhotsk (n = 37 individuals) and jomon (n = 60). findings are compared and contrasted with each other, with published series from honshu japan, and samples from climatically near-equivalent alaska. it was found that more meaningful comparisons of hokkaido p ... | 2008 | 17786996 |